The Archive · 1933

CHAPOO''S GLAMOUR Some Discordances

the Editor of the "Nosra-Elsa Dai News"

'Sw—Now that summer has rom' the city trid. find peace, and come, we all yearn. to get_ awa;

Telaxation and a change in nature, her late. stame "of, motorcars very possible direction. "There. speeding away from "Shanghai in

continuous. hurrying" along the Toad "that leads. #0. Chapoos that Tecently discovered haven for the ised citizens of Shanghai.

'One goes there to have a rest, in peace and beatific quietude. "For a Change. "AN who can, wend their way there because the majority of human beings, to a greater or fooner extents fave nature and feel Who children' when they find yellow, the sea at Chi isthe sea, little islands He Before peace.

you, swimming in a. faint haze, he waves creep forward and cede to the accompaniment of a lovely lulling rhythm. The pines and the hot grass exude exhilarating fragrance. There is a. chirping of crickets and. from time 19 time the caressing note of a wild dove, "When we arrive, we imme-Giately feel grateful for having found' such things. Worries leave you,—you lie back, stare into a blue sky, and Shanghai becomes, through delightful transformation, mere-an unreality.

We go. there to escape. But some unfortunate people never can They do not, go there' or perhaps they understand it di Serently, too differently, alas! They come, bearing, "so portable radiophone. The concerted musi of a blue sky, the scent of the pines_and of all growing green things, the swishing of the Brave yellow' waves—all that avail,—and out of front of a large audience, instead

Secluded spot, denotes, that they were merely out for startling the Beseefol burghers "of " Shan ich fact robs them of the excuse of frankness, innocence, or what have you,-—and dubs them: Disciples of Vulgarity, along with the evotecs of the Gramophone.

'One type of exhibition conftradicts the other, but both deter us from erying out. "Let us revert to, nature'

"Ra-Yo".

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