buying ice cream, or else purchasing serge totally useless article of clothing that is doomed to remain a white elephant for the rest of its days. "At any rate, the M.C.L. Bazaar which is taking place next Saturday is sure to be as. popular fas ever this year. The Live. Stock article goes on to say that "Charles. Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face and, as Mr, "Dicker still America Well—yes—Dickens is on the re quired reading list for school children majoring in English literature in American schools, Priestley-Hurst sarcasm apart, [American girls do say "lousy" and swell," even the Phi Beta Kappas Universities being known' to indulge upon gecasion. And aft, P. G. Wodehouse's "American Gi 'A Damsel in Distress" w is a portrait painter and many Shanghai people are among. her subjects. Her' young niece, Miss Stella Tucker, by th away, is in hee first year at Oxford and reports of her brilliance there have drifted back to Shanghai. She shows great promise of distinguishing herself.
Flower Ladies Those of us who are inclined to agitate, thereby losing our youth land beauty because we have lost Our serenity, would do well to heed the "example "of Japanese ladi ce time began on those fragrant islands it has been customary for well-born Japanese ladies to. prac-ice the gentle art of arranging flowers. It amounts to a science, since" there are instructors, and certain rules. to be "adhered to, not to. mention the vast amount of time necessary for becoming prox ficient, Local adepts at the exquisite art dis played a great room full" of choice examples last' Sunday in the "Shanghai Mainichi Building. There were Only a Rose ments in the ni, anid less formal, but quite effective, examples Stall probably affords "more amusement than any other.
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Girl, several opinions to the modern trend.
But the sheer sion of patient forbearance on the face of the inevitable goat as he slowly consumes innumerable paperbbage; the look of pained surprise in the eyes of the dogs as passers-make remarks in doubtful taste about. their origin; the frenzied activities of the. white mice. fall these "add to. its. attraction. The stall also has, its" advantages for those who ate in charge. For instance it is impossible to. produce the various articles. sold in other stalls without laboriously "sitting down and making them, whereas white mice and guinea-pigs have the convenient habit of multiplying themselves without human aid." In any case there is no doubt that the Live Stock Stall promises to be as rear a success as ever, and every Sody'is advised to drop in and prove for themselves,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.