When first at Home one is bo-wildered by the rush and hurry of everything, the crowds of peop! pushing about, the noise. And this feeling never wholly wears of, talk of a Shanghai trafic problem, after London, is laughable, and for the perfect workmanship of the traffic police one feels that Idea streets have very nearly reached their limit. Hotels and restaurants are for the most part wi: kedly dear, Where once a good cut from the joint, vegetables, cheese and butter were to be had' well served for two shillings, the joint alone will now cost you that.
On the other hand, houseke: ping in one's own house, the servants' wages apart, actually costs less than in China and pats of butter, tins of oatmeal, ete, go quite three times as far.' All'China families that I met agreed on this.
One wonders at the vast nimber of people who have time for amusements. To go to a cinema, the theatre holding 2,000 people, where the best seats run to ten shillings, where a prize has already been given for the purchaser of the mi!- Tionth ticket for this particular film, and to find the house crammed to the roof—on a Friday, afternoon too—this passeth comprehension. Yet one hears less than seems to have been said not long ago about people having forgotten how to. work, The labouring classes are kef strikes and there are althy signs of a drawing together tween Labour and Capital, despite Mr. Cook's frantic resistan¢ and of efforts to find some less rui ous way of settling differences. Communism undoubtedly appears to have fallen into disrepute, In short, as usual in England, people grumble and the country is for ever cing to the dogs. "But somehow it survives and in the end the worst evils somehow are righted.
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