To the Editor of the Nowni-Cmxa Dancy News"
Smy—With reference to Miss Dorothy Black's statements in your valuable columns to-day regarding Shanghai's being a disappointment to her, her inability to find a Chinese lantern and her dread of what she chooses 10 call the "White Peril." may T suggest that, if this good lady wants a Chinese lantern, why does she not go into the Chinese city where they are sold? It she paid that picturesque and romantic place Jo. visit' there are. other things she ouauet"de Chine' for instance, "bouquet de Chine," for instance. JAnd, while she is about it, she might down some of the back alleys and earn something, instead of criticizing members of her own race for their efforts in trying to bring some of the amenities of Western lite and feulture to this country.
[Shanghai, April 26. fork on the construction of the Jcanal leading from the Huai River to the sea is bringing to light ancient treasures. Recently, it is now reported, workmen came to caches pear Erhkanho and Wutuntl in which {they found numerous wine-jugs ahd wine-cups. The characters on them reveal them to belong to the Sung Dynasty.
Grxenat Ho Chien, Chairman of the Hunan Provincial Government, has decided to donate his favorite portrait of Confucius to the Yushima Sanctuary in Tokyo, on the occasion of the first meeting "of Confucian scholars which will be held there between April 28and May 1, Entrusted with this present, Mr. " Shigehiko Seki, a Japanese resident in Changsha and one of the general's inti nate friends, left there on Tuesday night in the s. Laoyang Maru for Shanghai en route to Tokyo.
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