'A Final Burst of Energy: The Dogs' Day: The Social Pendulum Activity, Intense and varied, has been the hall-mark of the last few Weeks in Shanghai. It would seem Bs though everybody, men, women, children and dogs, Were frenzic trying: to assert the importance of their existence before the impending hot weather comes to reduce them all to a state of physical and mental Passivity; or, to be more vulgar—and therefore more expressive—to reduce them to a hopelessly ineffectual pulp. In accordance with the traditional "ladies first," let before, anything else, review the activities "of some hundreds of women, There has been—though it Imost superfluous to say 50 -day conference held entirely by women, For two days these Jadies were thrown into a state of energy physically. Sports! For "The schools, in spite of rain, have jumped and sun." The Girl Guides have signalled, the Boy Scouts have rallied while the delights of Three-faces have made. ther infallible legged, Potato -and-spoon
appeal to the pupils. of the Cathedral Schools. Only last, week, four
twenty-two different nationalities, hundred "ang, ity children of were to be seen in thei "native costume, dancing and singing at the Sino-Japanese. Congress. More dancing and singing had previously welcomed the advent of the Queen of the May. And now, having dealt with women and. children (men thus being conspicuous by their absence) we must remember that every dog alo has its day." The day fin question being, of course, last Saturday. In fact they could be heard having their day for miles around, for dogs make just as much, "not, more, noise. about it cee Dogs and Fair Owners
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