The same correspondent who acrids us the clipping quoted above about Chinese eggs and game sends another one from the same paper, as follow:
Most of us know the bother and expense alfached to a grass Lawn, It demands continual work, for it has to 2 watered regularly. It likewise needs frequent clipping and rolling, while there are always weeds to remove and bare patches to make good. All this trouble and expense can be avoided by a permanent labour-saving imitation of Nature—a lawn made of concrete painted green, Such lawns have been tried in America with more than ordinary success, The conerete has to be laid down smoothly, and then painted a natural looking shade of green. One coat every spring is suificient, and if the work is well done the Jawn' appears from a distance like the "genuine article.
We do not remember hearing of anything so horrible for a very long time. There was once, we believe, a Governor of Jibutil who surrounded his house with painted tin trees because nothing else will grow there. Much is fo be forgiven in those who live in Jibutil. But that in England, the shrine and temple, 80 to speak, of perfect lawns, that anyone should so much as even mention painted concrete is an outrage. A Ruskin, with his hatred of shames in art (vide the imitation frescoes of Milan Cathedral) and his unsurpassed power of denunciation, is needed to deal with these A telegram to the Chinese press otates that the personnel of the new Cabinet has been decided upon as follow:—Premier and Minister of War, Gon, Chang Shou-tseng; Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. C.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.