A day or so ago a busy business man returned to his office after tiffin with the intention of dictate ing a long report, but found that his secretary had not turned up. As the report had to be written immediately he turned to and wrote it out himself and about five o'clock, as he was going out, the secretary arrived in a great flurry to say that her boarding house had been "pinched" and that she had necessarily to get her goods and chattels packed and out of the house to save them from conlfiseation by the brokers. She was off again in a moment to search for a new place to live before nightfall.
Strangely enough, when the writer was at an Army headquarters ofice on Tuesday afternoon, in walked a resident Major, handed over a slip of paper and: laughingly remarked, "I've a new address now. Had to leave rather suddenly. The brokers gave us two hours to get out."
Boarding house stories accumulate so rapidly that one simply must tell them to get them off the mind. fore is another one: A working girl took a room with which she was entirely dissatisfied and remained there only because she must be somewhere and there seemed nothing else to be had. The rent was enormous. Moreover, the unattrattiveness of the place grew with closer acquaintance. Finally, desperation she gave two weeks' notice and moved to a hotel. But two weeks' notice did not satisfy the landlady who insisted that a full month's rent had to be paid and actually suffered no remorse at accepting from the girl 3175 for value unreceived, and from a_ girl who obviously could not well spare the money, As someone remarked, Living arrangements have verne to such a state in Shanghai that when you see a friend fall in the river you go and apply for his rum
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and return later to fish him In connexion with this subject a correspondent asks if it would not be better for the women who are interested in erecting a hostel to use what funds they have or can get together quickly to rent a temporary building and make it comfortable for single girls living in Shanghai rather than wait to build a new one, Mr. and Mrs. Howard Bucknell arrived in Shanghai from Peking on Tuesday night and departed on Wednesday for Canton, where Mr. Bucknell will be American Vice-Consul. ies. To be sure, Shanghai showed clear field in each event, making a lead of 27 points in the total.
Mrs. Clear presented the annual shield to the winning captain, but was not forgetful of the losers, complimenting their captain for their clean and hard competition.
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