Seeing the enormous quantities of Jwater melons arriving in Shanghai Jdaily one is tempted to ask in the words of the latest song. "Where do they come from and where do they go?" Evidence Jor their consumption is found in the discarded rind floating in the rivers and "creeks. or littering the sireals with that disregard for the tien' g "too marked disposal of useless trifles and sanita-
jon of the Chinese. But the fact. remains that to produce one of the charts deemed so Recessary an adjunct to modern business must require mathematical computation of great extent. 'The Boat trains which formerly carried Passengers fill their passenger accommodation with thousands of the luscious vegetables—or are' they fruit?—and unloading operations Soochow. Creek, where swarms of small sampans ie in wait, like bleates, under the bridges for the first toot of the approaching launches, are carried out by hundreds of boats which distribute them throughout Shanghai, To students of the—ect nomics of Chinese life here is a fasminating study but to people living the vicinity and seeking sleep the hubbub which accompanies the arrival and discharge of this summer addition to the Chinese diet provides devastating material for a topic with which this note does not intend" to
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