Circumstances beyond the control of the most energetic.tourls compel Shanghailanders to look upon the sen og a goal to which approach can presently be made only by run hing the gauntlet of cheerfully willing. teamen. who are disguising their beneficence under the solid term evacuation." The sea is actually Shanghai's only point of contact with the world outside for sven the cables Ihave to submerge themselves in the ocean in order to keep up their com: munications, Other media are tem~ porarily out of sorts, Yet August in England. og in America, is the sea side manta, Happy ' bands of holiday-makers are disporting themselves on the sands and the tow! bred worker feels fiat he or she has ost caste If It is not possible to telic airily" of an Impending visit to Margate or Yarmouth or to show a tanned face which owes nothing that commodity which makes slightly sunburnt men handsome. Tt is as sumed that the public schools have poured their contingents on other Strands than those which minister to cockney delight. They perhaps would scorn to lay much stress on the se side Itself, If It provides them means sailing or fishing or golf oF tennis, then they are loftily content. Should any chance the universal appeal of bathing, oF even a surreptitious paddle be too alluring, the lapse will be accounted to them' for righteousness, "Hikers who prefer to penetrate the Teafy lanes.and moors and river valleys and only take the beach as an incident Ju the simple lite of their determined Kind, have been known to fall occasionally to the wiles of civilization by furtively exchanging the sharis for the trunks of the swimmer or sunbather.
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