It is antisfying to learn that the Public Health Department assisted ly its loyal allies the mosquito fish eae ans and "other wha waging. aggressive war mosquitoes in Shanghai, This city growing so modern nowadays that the question of discomfort from the mosquitoes seems to have been releated toa minor role in the list of irunieipal activities. The pests are Simply taken as a necessary evil to be combatted with chemical sprays for Japanese joss sticks. Of course, there it one safe and sure way of Killing. mosquitoes and that, is by the. swift and firm manipulation of fly swatter or a slipper on the person of the offending insect, but There are many people who believe that there are more mosquitoes this year than ever before and with fer~ Yent supplication beseech the health authorities to equip these marvel-fous new fish with wings rather than fins, 'This is undoubtedly the request of the apartment dwellers who are told that so many floors' up there jg no possibility of mosquitoes troub-Ung their sleep.. There are all sorts of interesting facts about the life of the mosquito and its range of Right from the place of birth but jhow they manage to pester the life out of people living virtually in the clouds {fs mystery well worth
authorities.
Yestigating by our municipal health sians. The greater part of the Russians are honest folk who have pulled rickshaws there''are a lot of people here who Hknow nothing about it. If any of the "Russians have worked on the wharves they must have done it secretly; if any of them were murdered for so doing, it must have been kept very quiet," 'This is certain—that the Muni Council has passed no regulation forbidding JRussiang to do coolie labour. Mr. [Clancy does not appear to be very well informed on' conditions pre-ling: here. Tu fact he seems to be The Belated Arrival On Saturday, beyond any doubt, the hot weather daly installed itself in' Shanghai. Stock was taken of the situation and the conclusion reached was that plans could be laid Jon a ten ovat the autside—thi jock basis for the reign of fa faphanous fabrics. ime was wasted summer for 40. kindly delaying its arrival. Swittly Shanghailanders tirew themselves into. the spacious life of sweltering and. murmurin= about the humidity." There were, of course, reports of the usual defee~ tions. Those who consider that the heat of Shanghai is more dangerous to their delicate frames than the heat of some alleged. watering place duly visited the travel bureaus. The patriotic Shanghailander, whose, motto must. always be "Shanghat First" and. who cannot. acquire, the necessary funds for adventure, Very Property' describes this as sheer coiwardice and expresses the vindictive Belch that the intending" plgrina will be (a) heavily bitten by mos-quitees on their journey, (b) 7 Rreavily fleeced by'sharks om arrival, (c). very. very heavily assailed [P"sad to: think that these violent richly heae on thole "return, Tt
passions find "expression nowadays But the thermometer is certainly rising:
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