A rescue which might have Revertheless involved a Shanghai husband hastening home to tiffin one day this week, may prove a diversion for Saturday morning. No names will be mentioned. But the fact remains that just as he was driving over the Garden Bridge at 1220, when his car appeared to be the only moving thing sight, Mr. So-and-So caught sight of a sudden fash, as though a weight had been thrown over the railing. Stopping his car he walked to the side and teaning over saw a Chinese girl, lying in a heap on a raft of bamboos which was at that very moment making its way under the bridge, A would-be suicide. A. Wheelbarrow coolie coming by was pressed into tending the strong strap Which passes over his shoulders and holds up his barrow, and this was fastened to a length of rope and lot down to the raft. Our hero made signs to the men guiding the raft to attach the strap to the girls body ud Mr. So-and-So, with the help of wheelbarrow coolie and some spectators, who had in the meantime gathered round, hauled the young woman back over the railing of the bridge and deposited her on the side walk, protesting with all the fury that Chinese woman is capable of, against her rescue from a watery grave, The rest of the story is less thrilling, fs it is merely a record of the fact that the Shanghai husband was kept Waiting even longer for his. tifin through his conscientious care in taking the girl to the nearest fire station and having her sent from there in an ambulance to the Shantung Road Hosoita, for an examination of her injuries.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.