am a Man and Nothing That Concerns' a Man do I Deem 'a Matter of Indifference."—Terrence By Euizanerat Parva One of the perpetual duole of the world between Sense' and 1 be, waged the optime ope that head ud heart need not always fine up ix opposing ranks Rowever incompatible they appear at the moment Shenphai tee some times seems to have ezatted Callous one of the cardinal virtues.
Not that Shanghai in general and wound if one pressed every thorn of we in particular are not. generous: sorrow to oneself, An ill-balanced Far from it. Giving has become a social worker might easily go mad, habit with" organizations and in-and the more readily because the dividuals. "We do a tremendous bit contrasts of life are so vividly pre-to. relieve the human wretchedness sented. Photographs of a hilarious which has accumulated in this com-New Year's party and Christmas paratively peaceful section of the dinner to needy Russians are pre-world, We subscribe to benevolences ented side by side, and we work for them. There is Probably the same revellers had no Christian charity contributed to the dinner, you point under the sun" for us to reproach out, and doubtless you are right, but ourselves with. But after all there where is the golden mean? A' cer-are few of us who give till it hurts. tain amount of indifference must be We give what we can spare, more cultivated by the unco-sympathetic, or' less comfortably, and then we it may be. Certainly there are those settle back to let the Race Club do who might give fuller scope to their the rest, feelings of pity. Amiel
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