Numbers of housewives are now wishing that they had kept old compradores' and market. books so that they may make a comparison between us. John, the only son of Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Marden, arrived in Shanghai last week, travelling from England via Siberia in order to spend the Cambridge long vacation with his parents. Likewise, the two sons of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Hardman, who are at school in England, are to arrive here early in August These three young men, though they have been home for some years, all spent their early youth in Shanghai, and &t will be interesting to learn what they think of our city under its changed conditions.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.