To the Editor of the "Nonri-Cuiva Dany News"
S—The reply of Mr. L. ©. to my Holter ix disappointing. "It merely reveals the anguish of a too Kenvitive soul. T have often noticed that many people, in debate, tend to ecome high flown' and hysterical, Te'Me. L. C. will do me the honour of Yeading' my letter again he will find T put a series of questions, and did not express any opinion of my own. "I was hoping for an opportu nity of doing s0-"later" on" when opinions for or against the practice Kad been, received, especially Chinese opinion,
of my, questions, nor cam T perceive LG. has not answered one from his letter whether he approves or condemns this custom.
iis. answer gets us nowhere, One moment he says the Chinese should be grateful to me for ai the question, and the next he re T would remark that this isa simple matter of Chinese mentality and. is unlikely to, separate conti-Rent from continent, The habit growing, and if T had not, called Attention to it some other observer was bound to, "It is a matter for fair comment and criticism, and is of more than local interest."
Thave not done any "disservice to my country" by raising the ques-Blo. Thad is pure rhetorical bosh, have one great advantage in this Mr. L. G's ramblings and patronage weather: they leave me cold.
Cuanurs R. Suaw Shanghai Aug. 8, 1083.
In these days the number of those who never hold an opinion which they can not profitably recant, is growing. Mr. Shaw is perhaps the embodiment and a living example fof those peculiar qualities which Ikeen-minded zoologists recognise in jchameleons.
Your correspondent who signed himself "An Overseas Chinese" has least the merit of uttering most un-Chinese" thoughts, He might, be taken for a medium for circular ing narrow-minded prejudices—a spouting geyser of fallacies—s jelaque to Mr. Shaw, The Wellingtons-Chen have adopted their names without ever dreaming of sharing the monopoly lof honour due to the departed duke, [They might have done so. out of sheer respect to the hero of Waterloo. Mr. Shaw, like many others, might also adopt a Chinese name, without any harm to anyone. He will still be the same Mr. Shaw as now know him to be.
Mr. Shaw's style is truly theatrical, and the only bit of cleverness about him (real wisdom too) is his affecting to think about the hot Lo
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