-|To the Editor of the "Nogru-CHiwA Dalny NEWS" is a Chinese myth which says that the eighth day of the second moon (lunar calendar), which falls on March 9 this year, is the anniversary of the birth of the Thirteenth God in Heaven. He has several daughters and they ame the Goddesses of Wind, Rain, Hail, Snow, Thunder, Lightning, Fire, etc. It is said that on or about this date the daughters have to come home and offer their greetings, and, owing to the peculiar taste of the father, who is very fond of frozen dog meat, the mercury in the thermometer has to drop to a point when it is possible io prepare such a dish. Of course, refrigerators are only modern inventions.
It is not my intention to spread this superstition, but I have, for many years, watched, with great wonder and interest, that the weather around this date has very rarely, if ever, failed to support this saying. At least, it is certainly true this year. I shall be very much obliged if you will kindly allot a little of the valuable space in your paper for the insertion of this letter which may bring satisfactory explanation to.these mysterious, but habitual, phenomena, MYSTIFIED, Shanghai, Mar. 7.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.