The Archive · 1937

Happy Helpers

Mr. E. A. Nottingham's new home at 535 Hungjao needed no patching; two cows were even mowing his front lawn.—News report.

This is merely another indication of the cleverness of cows, first established when one was caught climbing a tree, A Bit Unkind Y We read somewhere the other day that in one of the northern towns, still in possession of the Chinese, sing-song girls intended to comfort the wounded by singing to them accompanied on the Chinese fiddle. Our sympathy with the wounded is redoubled, Piscatorial Note soe a Waiting about the number of homeless children on the streets, a contemporary notes:—

"Thrust upon the city to find means of liveli hood, social workers fear these youngsters who have been separated from their families, or whose. parents have been killed, are likely to become the prawns of criminal gangs..."

Poor little shrimps, in other words!

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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