To the Editor of the "Nowr-Cutna Dany News"
Suz,—Please permit me a few lines in which to answer the damsel in distress who signs herself Borsa Buvz.
At first reading the letter achieves its object—the striking of a sympathetic chord. Reading between the lines is an entirely different matter. strongly suspect that there must be [something wrong with B.B/'s make-up if she can't get around. Perhaps she {is not good-looking, lacks personality, or expects too much from us males.
I offer my apologies to you, BB, if I should offend you by my analysis, but If I had read your letter anywhere else in the world I could have accepted it at its face value—but not Shanghai.
Also, B, B., the writer of this is not, Jan amorous Don Juan or a derelict [beachcomber. I am very young, it is true, but that is probably why T write to you in this strain, I am also terribly alone at times and can sympathize with you in part, but I am never "bored"—mucht My hat is off to you, B.B, for the utter you are going to cause in the hearts of our budding Galahads who will probably turn their morning, Papers first to the "Letters" and not the "agony column."
May T be in at the death, Dorey. Shanghai, Oct. 11.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.