During. this period when the wives are entertaining their unmarried women friends, giving feasts, and beautifying their homes with as corations as they can most forlorn, miserable spirits fro the nether regions also. make Philanthropy, " the nakedness these ghosts must be clothed, and. paper garments in prof are heaped up before house doors, and Durning tapers start Dontires, whi add to the gaiety of the holiday season. Backing up the Society for the Changing of Old Customs, the police have been talking to" the householders who still keep up the Performance of this eupersititious tite, and it was noticeable that interest in the welfare of the ghosts diminished greatly this year.
Although the order "forbidding the use of calendars that show the lunar dates, was put out. many thas never been entonese society has now got after the Canton newspapers and a the
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