Shanghai. Apr. 18. be that we Shanghailanders who have been worked up to fever hheat over the question as to whether or not we shall. have a. Municipal Orchestra to minister to our musical moods, are the same people wito but afew moons back were. suffering Lattle, murder, and sudden death? We have all been' frightfully: clvie-minded Yor a space, and outporters and homeside folk who rend our newspapers published just prior to the Ratepayers! Meeting will (eel assured for our safety, They will argue that folk: who can get excited on the sub-ect of Municipal Music, or muteness utter tea on Sundays, are not sulfer~ ing dangers of a very sinister order, the meantime M. Pacl's troupe oes on, and it is a pretty safe bet that, our grandchildren, if they are Shanghai, will be arguing the desirability or otherwise of mal taining an orchestra at the Councils expense, Now that the annual meet ing of ratepayers is over we can once again forget all about civic matters fand start to get busy as usual with summer pastimes, and, in the case of the women, with' summer frocks. lack smoke making the summer air (onl, and the landscape hideous.
Two women in the carriage fell tu discussing the new home and gardens of a mutual friend, and commented upon a certain fountain arrangement which met with their approval, Az this point a rough, but prosperous man in the carriage interrupted them, "Ladies," he said, pointing to the smoking stacks, "them's the only fountings T have any use for, and. 1 ike to see them playing, for wh them's playing bellies is being Aled."
For a time my infant mind toyed with the idea of a purely carbon diet, but later reflection had to grant that there was something in the man's idea, With an Industrial population On Easter Monday at o'clock the }Polish Youth Association gave Jo dance at their headquarters, Route Pichon, when an' old Polish custom, dating back to the thirteenth century, was observed. Every quest fat the' dance was. presented with fan Easter egg which had pres been blessed by the Rev. Father F. Steanowiez, who is visiting Shang: hat from "Wenchow.
Strictly speaking, one egg only should be blessed and divided among the guests. But as Easter parties are very largely oltonded in Poland and single egg would not give much satisfaction, a more generous method has come to be adopted.
Guests of honour at the dance were H. E. the Polish Minister and Mme G. Barthel de Weydenthal, the Consul-General for Poland and Mme ]J. Krysinska, and the President of the Polish Association, Dr. 8. Tomas-
Easter Biology Awaking to an Easter which gives Little promise of a settlement of our Gieultles, we once again. wonder what connection there can be tween rabbits and Easter eggs, and why they are always in juxtaposition our confectioners' shops at. thie season. "However, so long as the models be of something sweet and arable our children will not Inquire to0 closely into the origin of symbols. Though Emily Post has no notes on the subject, T understand that in the bert nursery circles the correct pro-Gedure "is to commence eating chocolate rabbits tail frst (a rule which used to apply when devouring sugar pigs in ancient days when they were manufactured). © From now on for & few days Shanghai mothers will bbe agitated to note that disintegrating animals and candy eggs have been Toft exposed to microbes awaiting further assault at a later date, and Goubtless correctives will be the next ems on numerous family pro-grimmes, "Kiss Me, Hardy"
From a Shanghai schoolgie! in Eng-lend comes the story of a 3 knowledge paper, which abominatons, despite all we hear of advances in educational methods, "apparently: still flourish. Well, one question Is seid to have quoted "Kiss me, Hardy." and asked who was reputed to have sold this, The answer from more halt the class came" back:
1 cannot of course be formant for being compilers of the funny' magazines and the joke columns, I may be repeating an old chestnut, but It was given me for an original, Anyway the answers served the ex-miners right, for who is any better for remembering these unimportant iuhostly messages from dead folk of history? True, the gossip of history is all that we remember of text book fore after school days, and such things as: "Look after poor. Nell "Calais will be "We are not amused," and "T never take off my clothes before-it is time for me to fo to bed" stick long afte constitutional "items have left our minds. "What does one remember about the Siege of Londonderry. for instance, beyond the fact imponed by Mr, Molilejohn that there was only one fat man in Londonderry at that time and he dared not go out? This Hem will at least intrigue our modern diet faddists, for if a man can elain his fat on a genuine starvation diet, then there seems no hope for the adipose.
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