Without any fear of contradiction it may now be asserted that summer has come to Shanghai, The change from the hesitancies of the early days of June to complete acceptance of the hot weather ritual came uring the week-end with apparent suddenness, Ina. few hours seemed that Shanghai had capitulat~ ed, Just when Incautious folk were congratulating themselves on the privilege of still wearing tweeds and sleeping under blankets, they were iscomfitied by the swift up movement of the thermometer, Li philosophers of the bulldog breed, they did not grumble or flinch, The regime of ice, white clothes, "long Grinks and Tong chairs was readily brailed and soon was working with a smoothness which seemed to suggest that such portents as snowstorm: hhallstones and piercing blasts were Unknown to this once more tropically~ {inclined port. However, Shanghai will remember that its hot weather is Timited in duration and the joys now being triumphantly accepted cannot be expected to extend their influence for more than three months at the outside, That warning may convey crumb of comfort to those who dis claim the status of salamanders,
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