present hostilities but of a hard fate throughout their lives, This slate is bad, but it is only a few degrees worse than life has ever offered in the whole of their recollections. It customary with writers to faces marked with patient suffering, of eyes brightening with gratitude at the sight of those who are serving them 0 unselfishly, but, from this writer's observation, nothing could be further from fact Compassionate foreigners are in-lined to invest these poor Chinese bosoms with emotions like unto, those which their own gentle train-Ing has Inculeated in themselves, but the writer is sorry to spoil a pretty idea. Not patient endurance, for surely that must spring from some spiritual or gentle medium, but dull, animal acceptance of a bhard lot' is the common expression no kindling eyes at the sight of foreign helpers, but dispirited demands for some needed material comfort.
And, naturally s0. One cannot criticize such, for it is the normal outcome of an existence made up of toll, starvation, privation and every adverse affliction which con assail mankind, The most harrowing reflection is that, though we foreigners Shanghai are made sharply aware of this state of things through recent events, and with the distracted fon. our very doorsteps, this, and Similar distresses are in existence fall over China. In every city this country we understand that Disease, Poverty, Death and Starvation are stark brothers with which the populace keep company from birth to death. The attitude of those who fail to die under the strain, can searcely be described as one of stoic endurance, and brave battle against odds, or of conscious patience: it is merely that they endure because Fate has not found it in her merey (o extinguish life, or so it appears to this writer.
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