Only, very impressionable or exceedingly optimistic Shanghailanders could put their heads out of their bedroom verandahs yesterday morning early and assert that they could shift the perfume of Autumh's cool presence. It could not be gain said that Autumn had begun for the Calendar testified to fact, but there was otherwise nothing-to show that the bondage of the hot weather had broken in the slightest degree. The aftermath of the typhoon still lingered to faint hint of coolness, but que by the stoking apparatus of the set weather there were signs of a rapid recovery of techni-
regime. It may be that a fortnight hence the sleuths who track down the advance guards of Autumn's array will begin to wt results, In reality the hardened resident Will refuse to be moved until he detects in the air of_daybreak that definite crispness which makes him plunk pleasantly of 9 gallop on the racecourse. The hot weather still rules, and it has probably a good deal up its stifling sleeve, but it would be ungracious not to salute the arrival of Autumn even if that mellow personage presently-has to conform to the tyrannical bidding of the heat and humidity combined,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.