Someone in America Appears to be Pleased Tt does sometimes happen that there is given the gift to see ourselves as others see us, and such an opportunity has been afforded the "North-China Daily News" in a roundabout but interesting fash-jon. Mr. W. Vinson Lee kindly sends a clipping of "Random Notes" from the "Brockton Daily Enterprise," Massachusetts, which comments on a copy of our paper sent by Mr. Lee's son to an American lad in Brockton. The article follows:
Through the mediation of Dr. Tehyi Hsieh, the Chinese educator: who has been a frequent visitor to this city and a speaker at many gatherings, a tad in his own country and a Brockton High School boy have joined hands across thousands of miles of land and sea and become chummy correspondents. John Alden, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Eugene Alden, of Huntington Place, is at this end of the correspondence line, while a "Chinese youth in Shanghai is at the other. Their letter writing, we understand, "is done in-English, and the exchange of Occidental and Oriental ideas and viewpoints should be helpful to both the young chaps.
Master Alden brings the "Enterprise" a copy of the "North-China Daily News" of August 2, publish. ed at Shanghai and the principal English-language newspaper in that pert of the world, "It was sent to A party of Yale University professors and students had just arrived at Shanghai on the steamship President Madison and were to stay 'a few days before resuming their
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