The study of the advertising columns of the "'North-China Daily News" well repays one, not only in the actual facts gleaned therefrom, the opportunities for feminine investments therein set forth, but also in the field they offer for imaginative speculation. One's fancy toys with the skeleton of prosaic fact presented and constructs a romance in no time, as in the case of the gentleman who so recently advertised for a dancing partner. Apparently he found what he was looking for at once, for only one insertion. wag noted.'
Again in the same Dancing section we read of a~genius who can teach any one who can walk to dance, and not only that, who
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