Upon this high roof people come to get a complete sunning, lounging bout on chairs provided in a strange solitude far removed from the eark-Ing cares of the madding crowd beneath, Restaurants cater to the more material needs of the visitors at prices which approximate the celestive, while a cabaret, with a revolving dance floor, gleams in all the beauty of its ery' ralline accoutrements, beneath a candelabrum which seems as, though 'a cloudburst of raindrops were sitd-ight, frozen and suspended multiplying the lights into a thousand points of brilliance, The soft hues of the afternoon slowly changed into the velvety purples of night; building after building quickly sprang into row heaped on Fow of small rectangles of light until, as our guide remarked, the whole city looked "like a series of illuminated waffles set on end. As has already been indicated she was a. New Yorker and, therefore, permitted to fake liberties with her similes. such as no visitor would ever dare.
One of the delights of visiting new places is the opportunity afforded the visitor of taking some of the residents out to learn something of the cities in which they live, There are millions of people who have watched the Empire State building grow, but who have never journeyed {0 its summit to see New York stretched at their fect. The writer did not ascend this little town which lives, as it were, on top of itself. Near the lifts which made possible so rapid transportation to the empyrean there was notice Romanes, thus punctured by the shaft of tinconscfous, if accurately Patterned ridicule, speedily collapsed, A thousand pigments of the imagination fled in horror from the devastation of the homely remark, and there was no refuge save in the swiftly in the twinkling fof an eye whirled artistic frustration down to earth again, into the narrow canyons of stone, into the pullulating, mass which has found its architectural salvation in an Ad te evavi oculos. usual poetic licence, what is perhaps the best description of his passing appears in Thackeray's "The Chronicle of the Drum," in which appears the lines Though more than half the world was his He died without a rood his o And borrowed from his enemies Six feet of ground to lie upon.
Wonk is to begin shortly on reneoval of several sandbags "which have appeared in the channel of the Haiho in the Third Special Area, Tientsin. Mayor Chang Tze-chun has reached x" satisfactory agreement with the Haile Conservancy Commission in regard to the dredging, and the Bureau of Public Works have napped out the exact locations of the hindrances to navigation,
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