[By A Scrtsnimnr Eyeuisnatay 1 suppose that most of us comic: "Old Timers" who have made the Settlement our home for a quarter of a century or more, can delve back into our memories and find numerous diverting episodes, some of which are At for publication inthe Sunday morning pages of dear old "Grand-mama" and, others, well, er,.t-s0- Int perhaps? Quitel 'The Shanghai Public, or, rather, the British and American' units and communities of our kaleidoscopic Fopulace, are like a lot of bailly spoiled children, for they receive 80 many good things and practical blessings in this so-called "Exile" rom the Main Streets of American, small towns, and the tack streets of Dal-ham dnd "Board and Bed for thirly~ tob-a-week in Belgravia," that they Jose all "sense of proportion, they: forget all their former sutorings and strap-hangings as clarks in the City, and they simply don't know when they are damn-well-off, to put it into the bold and bad vernacular, 'A quarter of a century or 0 ago, however, human nature was much it Is today, but not quite 20 hectic, and we took our pleasures more sedately and probably enjoyed them much more as a consequence, There were not any cinemas and dance halls, or even posh cabarets in, Anna Domini 1909 and thereabouts, but young men fell" in love and young women were supposed to do into, and altogether there was. lots of romance and laughter and tears spilling around to make the spice and sauce of life.
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