To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cunsa Dany New 'Si—May 1, mid the welter of Yuietide cheer that encompasses us all in 'Shanghai, impart a sombre, a tragic note?—not with the intention desire of replacing happiness by gloom, of eliminating joy or of shattering' goodwill, but of calling succour to the distressed and thereby relieving that anxiety which, Tam sure, ig felt by the youthful owners of goldfshes, and by the parents of youthful owners of goldiishes, Shanghai over.
Boiled down to bald English, 1 simply need to know how goldfshes should be kept in order that they Shall remain alive for their normal span, My own young possess several They possessed more still not so very Jong ago, but the rate of mortality has been, and is, so distressingly high as to cause alarm and despondent; fon the part of the owners at fur rokable losses, and greater alarm land despondency on my own part it the prospect, nay the almost certitude, of having to replace casualties ad infinitum, till the glamour of possess ing goldishes. shall have faded and riven rise to another hobby, probably equally expensive and nerve-shattering.
Professed experts in the care, keep and upbringing of goldfshes' have been consulted. Their advice may be summarised as follows:
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