On a glamorous evening on the roof of a private foreign dwelling ong a quiet hotung another rivalry between Peking and Shang. hai was revealed. "Flow quiet it the tourist murmured, watching huge Chinese lanterns swaying at th 's four corners in unconscious rivalry to the moon. And forthwith was launched uncom!
Teolated Chinese noises such as the strange cymbals of a Manchu funeral procession or even the occasional gong of a fast-travelling ricsha, untrimmelled by traffic regulations, can assume very real glamour tone is in just the right mood. Peing, it should be added, sets one in this mood to enjoy.
Added to this qui is a come ponent sense of the leisureliness of Whether mingling with the strollers in Central Park in the evening or wandooing across ble bridges of Pei Hai ig the pink Intus @owers in majestic array, one is pervaded by a reuse of leisure, which undoubted!
good sence' to have on a holi day, The camels, of course, add to this impression and te writer cane fut help intruding these deligintfully supercilious beasts of burden as an additional, if somewhat far-fetched, reason for the feeling of having Meeting a caravan of these diy-painful travellers in the foothills near Peking and drawing up to one side of the rond to watch them pass in the twilight. while our ponies chafed at the delay for so common: place an occurrence, one casual tourist at least felt a distinct chill coming up from the kaoliang folds to settle on the back of her neck, Perhaps this was caused only b the eerie effect of the camels' sot: footed gliding off towards the hills in the dusk, The Usual Question Put, "Let's trot up. 1 feet the chill of the ovening," became immediately the pass-word of the hour, and a Peking veteran could not permit 8 good an opportunity to go imangwered. "Do you suppose yo in Shanghai?" "By that time fortunately one was out of heating dis As an epilogue, of course, it mus bbe added that cheerful conclusion themselves open immediately to is construction. One is linked uw teale in everybody's rind with those worthy Sinologues who, after devoting the whole their lives to the study of Chines classics must in justification extot these classics to the skies. Unless tone wishes to be thought a little insincere, in Shanghai, therefore, it is best to go to Tsingtao or Japan.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.