Shanghai last Wednesday morning }was limp and exhausted after one of the worst nights in years. "What a night! What a night!" was on every. body's lips and the'moan had nothing to do with the hang-over from some national celebration. It referred to the terribly hot night people had survived through heat and discomfort which left doubts as fo whether or not it was hotter during the night than during the day. If things grow any worse a moratorium in tempera~ ture ought to be declared, was one suggestion, although another was that it 18 quite a fiction tO" believe that the longer a person stays in Shanghat the better he can stand the heat. The newcomers always come out. best. Deeause their blood fresher. Which led one member of the limp "and exhausted brow-mopping study circle to remark: "That is a fact. Why in Canada we are positively afraid for the English newcomers wno go about in the thinnest~of clothes in temperature below zero while we are warmly wrapped up in furs. It is three or four years before the newcomers begin to exhibit signs of feeling the sold atid start wearing furs." To which the caustic reply was made: "Yes, but it takes some time for the English newcomers to. make enough money out of the Canadians to. buy the furs, doesn't it?" Al of which is appropriate gossip on days like yesterday following nights like the Dreviout night.
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