woman here with several marriageable daughters was heard to remark at a recent tea-party that Shanghai would soon have as many fold maids among her population as has any Cathedral town in England, and that is saying a of.
It has been noticed for some years that Shanghai girls are more and more reluctant to marry. Perhaps ood positions and independence are partly: the reasons for this, for we can~ hot believe, from what we see, that there is any lack of attraction in our men, be they young or old.
The Shakespeare Festival at Stratford-on-Avon has. been particularly distinguished, Tradition In. staging iso been allowed: no more Hamlets in plus fours and bowler hats to impress us with Shakespeare's all-time modernity. But the real hero of the festival isa tite mongrel dog named Grab, who with hig master, Mr, Way Laurier, the pantomime star, has been making his in. Shakespeare. As Launce and his dog, the pair carried off all the honours. in "Two Gentlemen of Verona."
Mr. Laurier plays Shakespeare's clowns just as if they had been written for" a 20th century. pantomime audience, and they "fo With a roar." Here is the" true Universality of Shakespeare. Crab is undeniably intelligent. But he also has a passion for cheese. By plying on this adroitly Mr, Laurier, and people in the wings. can make him do the absurdest things.
Bearing out the mother's belief, a girl friend of mine 's dreading her ext birthday which will bring her to thirty. for, she says, it is really extraordinary' what a large number of her school friends around that age sre still unclaimed treasures. It! would seem that the days are gone for ever when a girl who once left her home shores never returned single. The danger of certain marriage for a girl is past, and now she may choose for herself and remain ingle without being regarded as o lure in life, What the reason for this glut of spinsters is one cannot say, but Tam inclined to think that the reason given many many years ago by an old Yorkshire woman for her single Dlessedness applies today, not only' in Yorkshire but the world over. She said, when asked way a gradely lass like' herself had never married, "Well, was like this. I have had my chances like most other women, but would na' look at the walkers, and the riders all good by." That must be the Shanghai reason, A hair-colouring crayon is pre popular amor and applied to the hair. The colour-white pencil, is simply
ing is not a dye or a bleach, as it washes out easily. The pencils are made in black, dark brown, medium brown, light "brown, ash blonde, golden blonde. and auburn.
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