The Universal Wheel: Poor Scholars Hunting Hungrily for Next Term's Fees Fnow Our Own Contesroxoext.
Kiangchow, Shan., June 80, That the school holidays are commencing is very apparent, for every where the modern schoolboy, and school-girl are in evidence. "They crowd the shops purchasing (let us Hbeljevé!) presents for their devoted parents (7) and other etcetera, nob forgetting the new craze, for locally made boiled sweets.
Bicycles are everywhere and speed Ten-day cart journeys are now performed by "bike" in perhaps two days or a little more and many carters and innkeepers the poorer from the loss of customers, The increase of cycling in Shansi the last two years is truly pheno-monal vnd if statistics were available would certainly be interesting. In this and neighbouring cities where five years ago or even bicycle "was regarded curiosity rarely if over seen, and of little practical utility, now every large business house po: one or two, and the yamen officials find them indispensible and this even away from the motor-road, One of the pathetic aspects of the students' holiday is the way: so many have to devise way and: means to raise their term school fees. The many notices which app this time are eager! institutions for, as often happer entirely new ventures, either offering financial inducements or remitting fees. Luck failing along these lines, a bombardment of the parents follows. Should these be of the oM-fashioned type entirely out of sympathy with modern education, the holiday weeks will for Master Young China be a strenuous time, Maternal susceptibilities will have to be cunningly worked upon, and arguments prepared for repeated encounters with "paterfamilias" who may be not unwilling but parsimony fous or unprepared to disburse fees fon the entrance day and anxious to know when and what prospects of a Uiberal return in cash and "face" may be depended upon, Then there fis the "elder brother" looking over is shoulder all the white with the ready "thou never gayest me" \—and this thy son hath" Tt is wonderful what a convenient friend the maternal uncle seems to be in many eases, And in August thera Taiyuan or Peking, glad that the holidays are over and that a victory has been won which will tide him along perhaps half the term,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.