How China's Wars are Shown to the West: Rivals Among Girls'
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Inthe rotogravure sections of the leading. newspapers of Washington, New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, te. Judging from' their number bice interest revolved about pie-tres of American sailors "in around "poses" guarding entrances Throush barbed Wire entanglements {evidently taken on the boundary of Chapel) and photographs sailors, tiles ung, witha. asha Goolie or some other typical Chinese flecoration in. the. background, A few phctogeaphs of peculiar scenes, tach) as. soldiers marching with umbrellas-—were published buc_ very ow, fang. slews of any of the sual war scenes made their appear-ince. "A few pictures are sill being pubtsied at this late date.
Smith, Vassar and Wellesley, the trilogy of leading girls' schools in Fave been quite well known in the Far East, parti ularly among Americans, at the time has come when Gouchor College at Baltimore, Maryland, must be des in the list, raising itt the four" rather than. the "ig graduates of Goucher have recently found their way to Shanghai and other points in. the Far East, and as long as the United Stites Navy continues ty send 8 to Oriental waters Coucher stand-up among the leaders Goucher, it should be known, is situated only short distance from Annupolis and the midshipmen who are to become officers and eventually be assigned to the China station are certain to spread its fame far and After having danced at the school, your correspondent can vouch' for the pulchritude of its students. Spreading of Gourher's fame to Japan is assured now through the fact that Mitsu Motoda, daughter of the first Episcopal Dishop to be elected by the Japanese Epicopalians, is now a junior there, Photographs' of her in kimono are appearing in all the rotogravure sections and plans are being mace to increase the number of Japanese girl students at the school.
New York, always hunting for something just a utile different, ins just provided an affectation that will unquestionably, within a short space, bbe adopted by the belles of Shanghai at Astor ten dances or in the evenings at the Mafestic or Carlton Snappy stylo-retters among the females of the species who smoke B now carry little phials of their favourite perfume wien they dining or dancing and seeut cigarettes to match the are wonting, A fragrant violet of smoke obviously would not with black narcissus, who flew the world are now Washington for a short time writ ing their complete reports of the ight for the records of the Wer reached $20,248,084, exceeding the total for the corresponding period in 1923 by $545,381. The Department predicts that the total for 1924 will be well above the total for 1923. shipments of tyres, in-those for Shanghai auto mobiles, played a large part in the trade record,.shipments of rubber Yooots, rubber' belting, and rubber: toys greatly assisted in keeping the rubber goods trade at a high level, Shipments of water bottles and rubber thread are also exceeding all previous figures.
China ix going to have the honour fof numbering among its citizens the oldest man in the world after all, in that ancient in Szechuan who boasts 134 years, beeause—Methusaleh really wasn't the oldest man that ever lived according: to Prof. R. T. Crawford of the astronomy "department of the University of Californi According to Genesis," Prof. Crawford "has just asserted, "Methusalch probably attained the improbable age of 969 years. However, the people of that era reckoned time by cycles—a term which many of us have misinterpreted as being the equivalent of tone of our calendar years, whereas all probability the Bibical term cycle' means a lunar cycle or period of our time equal to about one month, wrod in this way' Methusaleh's age comes to about 80 year Mail fro london is being speed-in delivery in New York Just put. into effect the big city on the Hudson, mail for the Wall Street sector is delivered within a few hours after the ship carrying it arrives if it is addressed as directed by the postal jauthorities—to City Hall Station, Letters 20 addressed ure placed in special sacks at the General Post Office in London and the bags are taken directly to the City Hall Station for distribution as soon as they arrive. Other mail has to go through the usual delay incident to transporting it by truck to the Central Station in New York, distribution, and then carrier," The plan has already proved of great benefit to firms in Wall Street who desire business documents at' the earliest possible moment, often when even slight delays might prove the axis of losses.
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