Children, of cours fon the due observance of parental and. avuncular obligations "by rant of facilities for visiting lagenbeck's Circus which has put the: long neglected Majestic Site to such pleasant use, "But children are hot. alone." The " wonderful fitness. of the animals and the excellency of the programme generally have attracted' adults no' less surely." To admit that you have not yet been to the circus. donable but only if you immediately remark that you ate proposing to go shortly. Critics -will make gor Parisons with this or that, circus which visited Shanghai so, many years ago; some of them will, murjmur about circuses in other lands. Yet when all is, said and done, only the most exacting circus-goer can really fail to admire an organise: tion "which can make the sea its road as well'as the land and maine tain so comprehensive a show. Best of all ig the atmosphere which these Yalented—performers—human and animal—bring to Shanghai. For the' space of a couple of baure the Shanghailander ie transported. into the midst of cheerful, happy-go-lucky world where problems "of business and politics are forgotten, Herr Hagenbeck and his company are "the "bert friends who Visited "Shanghai for a long time.
books on the "Shanghai Mind," this They will nog go away and welte Journal is convinced of that. They may, it Ts oped, be able to, Tooke cheerfully. on" the account books with which Shanghai is concerned Dut they can also rest, assured that, the credit is transcended in volume by" the onerosity of the memories conjured "up under. their wondrous tent. with its" medley of lights. sawdust, wires, glitter and the rest, for all gamer, also Stevenson Tables renovated. lo for Outports. Patronised by winter, leading Clubs in Shanghai and all parts of China.
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