The writer of a letter from which an extract is given below, lived for some years in Shanghai, and because of certain definite attributes, not the least of which were her good looks, was probably just as able lo sum up the Shanghai male as mos! women. Subsequently she married and returned to England where she is happily settled down, She gives account of some Shanghai girls and homeside men that she met 8 dance given by a well known club the country south'of London. She says in part:-—
"We ran into one (a gist from Shanghai) at one of the "Saturday Sxgning. dinner "dances at ihe. Clay, and such poise, such suavity, such Savoir-faire" my" dear! But on such the picture. Tt {fs a horrible commentary upon Empire Dullding that' all the miserable specl= mens of humanity—male humanity seem to populate London and. the
fous men—excopt, of course, in the Provinces "Havely women and Mai Services. Candour' compels "me "to admit that, even there, the "young fono's, have that same. undernourished took"
Idmay be taken for granted that had the writer of that letter dreamt that part of it would subsequently apes print, she, would never have phrased it exactly as she has done, Dut therein is to be found the sincerity of her criticism, and as she is not an Englishwoman herself the praise of the female of the species is probably just as genuine as her criticism of the male. In any event, after this, the Shanghai young man is seen out in his dinner clothes, looking "chestier" than ever, in view of the compliment who shall. blame them, unless the Shanghat young woman, who will complain that it 1s not her escort's chest which is, expanding, but his head?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.