Repentance came to the weather clerk: on Monday. Fine weather rected what. to ders was, holiday of the yew The sunshine fand the absence. of anxiety. about in helped. to cheer up those: who heroically. pretended to be en-Joying. the. appel Saturday and is about Easter in Shanghai an. engaging mixture. of nat tudes. It is. believed It that Jcommiunity snatches from another special customs which seem to commend themselves, It is all. very well (o argue that Easter' Monday' is a Bank Holiday only for the British resident fortified by statute but, Judging from the general behaviour yesterday many" other nationalities were sheltering under the beneficence of the Mother of Parliaments. And British people were only too glad to nequive' from sister nations Baster customs which est (0a spring-tide festival. For, after all, it is in its promise of better day that Easter finds ts chief. justification and ins pin 'And better days "ahead are rely looked for by that incorriible' optimist known. under the hensive name of Shanghai
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