Summer holiday plans have not Jonty been made by most of those who are giving Shanghai the cold shoulder during the next two or three! months, but some of the luckier ones have already taken wing and are most probably comfortably ensconced their mountain and. seaside hotels. {Karatsu, which has grown in popular-_ ity with amazing rapidity since it was first "discovered" about five years ago by Shanghai residents (although on, good authority we have been, informed that a summer home has been maintained there for a long time by Mr. Jand Mrs. Eric Moller) is reputed to be booked to capacity for the summer Jseason. Mrs. L. M. Cosgrave and her ison and daughter were among the first to depart from Shanghai for this resort, and the next few days will see Jo steady stream of visitors arriving at this very beautiful beach.
Mrs. Rudolf Laurenz leaves shortly Jtor Honolulu in the Tatsuta Mara] Jwhere she will meet Mr. Laurenz on his return trip from the United States, Jand after spending a week in the most fascinating resort of the East they will return to Shanghai, arriving! here sometime in July. Mrs. Laurenz, Jwho is well known as an enthusiastic gardener, is looking forward to seolz the Night Blooming Cereus in full Mower while she is in Honolulu. The hedges of stark and pickly looking branches which look so unpromising Jduring daylight hours are covered when the moon is full with a mass Jof the most exquisitely beautiful down white blossoms. The scent they, exhale is also something never to he forgotten. Mrs. Laurenz has one of these plants in her green house here} and says that each year in August it is a glorious sight, even though there
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