Shanghai, Apr, 19, 66QUMER is acumen in, Lhude warbled the unknown author of the oldest song in the English language of which any record has been kept, and it must have been in weather very similar to that which prevailed in Shanghai over the Easter Holi~ days that he sat down in the arbor of a friendly tree to write his poem and compose his little tune.
At any moment, an ardent nature lover may pen his letter, therefore, proclaiming that the first notes of the cuckoo have definitely been heard in this region.
His letter will mark the approach of that season of heat, rain, more heat, typhoons, humidity, mosquitoes and other nuisances which 1go.to make a Shanghai Summer.
For the time being, however, although the thermometer thas been bobbing around the 80 degrees Fahrenheit mark during the last day, or two, the weather is still enjoyable.
growing tendency to partial nudism, however, has been "noted among such active individuals as rickshaw pullers and other coolies.
South-westerly to north-westerly winds prevailed in the Yangtze delta over the week-end, while the sun poured down from a sky which, for by far the greatest part of the time, was pililessly clear blue, with not a cloud to pass its gentle, cooling shadow over house-tops and streets.
The maximum temperature was 68 degrees Fahrenheit.
During the whole of lost week, rain was conspicuously absent from the official records, except on Thursday. From Sunday, April 10, to Sunday, April 17, @ total of O11 inches fof rain was Fecorded by the gauges In the grounds of the Holy Trinity Cathedral. And this damp spot was recorded on Thursday evening, after it had looked for a "few horrible moments as if the weather was going {fo put on the performance it generally reserves for Saturday afternoons, Sundays and all public holidays.
"Glorious Weather"
But the Weatherman, failed to tap his suppl water and "Shanghai experienced glorious weather:' one respect, however, the weather was not kind, for it laid emphasis on the curtailing of the Shanghai "hinterland result of the hostilities, From early Friday morning to late yesterday evening, the weather re~ mained bright and fine for the tong. weekend—yet Shanghai, for the most part, had to sit around impotently. Houseboat trips, motor trips, -and shooting excursions were practically ut of the question, while reports of guerilla Aghting not far from this city even kept many out of the Hungjao area. The. parks—Jessfield, Koukaza and" the Bund" Gardens—were, of course, full, while (in the comparative sense ofthe term) targe crowds were to be seen Jeisurely walking in the western districts each ay and nearly all day.
Due to the unfortunate coincidence of Easter with the end of the winter sports season and just before the opening of the summer sports season, sport opthusiasts found themselves confined' to the Saturday and Monday Face meetings, the riding gymkhana and the the golf exhibition by Messrs.
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