Now there has come the Society for the Changing of Old Customs, an offspring of the Kuomintang, riding to death the ancient stitious practices. "In its rid the city of all visible signs of ignorant, irrational beliefs, emulate ing unions of other days, it retained a band of pickets who visited places where paraphernalia used indulging in the undesiewere being display-The Chief of Police has put his foot down, and will not allow intimidation, but agents of the Socety are left free to remonstrate with the shopkeepers and to Tay foundation for the coming' year when, even the Chief of Police, Mr. "Anyang Kui, concedes, the celebration of some of these superstitious rites must be discarded, The Society for the Changing of Old Customs has made its presence felt most strongly during the seven days that the married women have eon doing homage to the seven. fairies who, tradition tells, descend annually to' the earth for the. brief, spell to be with the mortals whom, ago, they took as mates. A Variety of paper ornaments have} deen sold in shops that cater to! Yhose who have money to throw: Away on show, and the shopkeepers have been warned that they need not stock up for the coming year, for this is the last in which it will be permissible to encourage - the Fublic thus to waste its money.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.