With summer to all intents and purposes upon us-—as soon as the weather sees fit to synchronize with the calendar we stil have the gas new season—it is indeed. time. to speculate on the particular variety lof delights which people. summering' in" Shanghai may expect. to 'There are really a great many people who are looking forward to spending' the holiday season in the elty—you will notice that we fearful to avoid saying "doomed" to remain at home, or even "recon. jelled" to foregoing the dubious pleasures of crowded watering places or desolate mountain ret A great many people have lever since those blustering days in March when i was pleasant to hug'
comforting fire and peruse travel literature that the problems. of the poets, and go forth when only a select. group of devotees of the akaning dawn are abroad. Yes, you have it—this is the time for early' "morning canter. Old Sol may have in mind record-breaking heat for the day, but at this early hour he has done little abou Such exercise as this is not to be passed over lightly, particularly since an obliging pony does all the work, Some people, of course, like to work hard while they are' playing, and enjoy nothing so much as wield: ing "a racquet, and subsequently, chasing balls until they are nothing' but.
a mass of limp ducks, The feeling of virtue that this engenders may be intensified by the fact that lounging in a coo! spot afterwards constitutes. sheer luxury in the minds of many.
Chasing Balls boarding out the dog and packing bottles among the going away war: robe would not perplex them thi year. After all, it is a comfort not to have to get together all the clothes all the family are likely to ced during the heated season. "And there*are comforts on which home, [Local Summer Colony'
As a matter of fact, it is already Jnoised abroad that Shanghai is in-Jdeed going to have a very. smart summer colony during the coming months. It is very likely that those individuals who, in' the face-of it elsewhere will, next autumn, feel distinctly left out when' their friends.xefer casually to past swim: ming parties and bridge breakfasts. By the sunimer of 1982 it will very Likely be exceedingly poor form to Jdesert the home city just because it is to be the scene of typhoons land heat waves.
So trunks and bags' will be left for spiders to spin their webs about, land the efforts that used to go into aching will be turned into other channels. Then when all the furniture is adequately encased in slip Jeovers, and. the family's bathing suits have been inspected for possible moth holes, there will be tittle left to cloud one's enjoyment of the It is a sane arrangement to r2- pudiate the long afternoons of July and August, one's mode of life per-multting, The question of what do with these necessary but dis: agreeable intervale is easily solved, 'A medical authority" once' pointed out that human beings are the any animals which make a RaDit of get ting all their sleep in. one unbroke (barring telephone calls and voralcals). stretch, a most. deplorable custom. "He had reasons. foe Tecommending sleep indistinct nits, but the ends. one' applica to the ease in hand is this most convenient in the sun: iner Luxurious Siesta ising early—it is scarce!
to say that one might stay up: later—the summering resident will find both time and need for the luxurious afternoon siesta, It'breaks the back of the most try ing day nnd send one forth ae the preper haw witha new interest feaot the Teed "verity," Siest jate truly blessed institutions, With afternoons practically' blotted out. in this new. schenie of me Yéereuncoeayefeenegget tage puts, By the alle act of pulping oon
away winter: rugs and fury ome can. not put away all the: diversions' of jthe winter season; ahd' some will "be who must. have "a itt bridge from time'to time, Morning' brid rames are the logical solution, 'téliowed by a tifin' composed of all the delectable cool things one think of for the summer, But Sere we ate encroaching' "on the rounds of the culinary departnieat course, one may look forward to the periodic need for a little dis-erect darning of these same bathing suits, but viewed in. the light of long sessions with tailors in behalf Jot garments. for stowing children, this is as nothing.
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