Shanghai people who used to be notorious in world opinion for their wicked night life which scorned the mere necessity of sleep must have been thankful, genuinely lyrical or perhaps merely ordinary in their cunduet on Monday night when for the first time ina week of terrific hheat a cool, healthy sound sleep be-care possible. The temperature was comparatively low and a lasting! breeze drove the heat from thousand of bedrooms and played around the aching brow with that gentle Solicitude which not even the best electric fans or cooling systems display. Our old friend Dr, Johnson. used to remark that he never took nap after dinner except when he had. had a bad night and then the—nap] took him, but there must have bez, many people yesterday delving—in Be confusion of poetic memories rhapsodize on the pleasure and joy of a good night's sleep which the' poets have dealt with ectastically but, doctors treat quite brutally as far the facts sre concerned. Five lamas} lwnaded by the Panchan Lama,. the Tibetan pontiff, have erected prayer platforms in Nanking and are pray-daily for rain to break the drought and heat affecting the Yangtze Valley which all goes to show that there fare problems of existence to face far transcending the political economic differences which mark Sino-foreign relations. Let incidents, differences, rapprochement,—understandings come and go: give us a Rice, cool day and a food nights sleep.
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