Shanghai, June 13, So far as social affairs are concerned the close season' is upon us and with summer i-acumen in" Public entertainments are a-going out of favour, Since earlier hours Drevail in' some ofoes one notes tennis racquets and other. sports ear—not directly responsible for the Successful conduct of business—being slowed away by desks and fling cabinets, and_when 4.30 strikes steps which maybe went laggerd into office 2 pin, are set to a quick tempo on deaving. And a very good idea too: few things are more helpful to good business than healthy cheerful assistants, and it is wise to devote one's leisure hours to keeping fit.
So we}, will feel it is all to the good when young Mr, Jones or prepossessing Miss "Bright" start getting anxious about the weather around four O'clock, and when they trip out with tennis or swimming gear some half hour tater. much of the grotesque; piquant attractiveness instead of the repulsive ugliness of the dwarfs (excluding Dopey), while the hideous scenes in the wood, the witch horror, and the woodman and the knife incident are not of the stuff for infant minds.
The Mim had many good points, but it Iacked the delicate whims," and the healthy suggestiveness which prevail in the best stories for children.
Besides that, very youthful critics who know their Grimm are asking: Why did not the cruel stepmother try the tight stays on Snow White rst?" "Why did they miss out the piece where Snow White has the Prisoners All Whoever can glean pleasure from this stark city at the present time ave fully deserving of" their crop, for if some of us fully realized our situation we should know. that we are as much of prisoners as ever was, say, Mary Queen of Scots who got '89 much of our youthful sympathy. When the lovely Mary was in Hard wick Hall, for instance, she had the run of a good-sized house, and park Innds surrounding it. far greater extent than our little "restricted seitiement. True the imprisoned queen had the axe always hovering uncomfortably near her neck, but economically We too ure in danger of strangulation, Consider our unhappy lot. We are bounded by Hongkew, Hungjao, Nantao and the sweet-flowing Whangpoo, we with to go beyond our barriers, and are willing to brave the smells and the sights thereof, we must not only possess passes and' permits which need a filing cabinet to accommodate when not in use, but we must have our systems filled with inoculations enough to Kilt off any but the hardy.
We can remove ourselves to fresh fields but money is needed for Passage tickets and here again is the strangle-hold upon our poor selves. 'Money ig needed, we repeat, and the 'Shanghai currency, our earned inerement, can scarcely be regaraud a that.' No," we are all packed into fan evea smaller than a. rich man's estate in any of the home countries, fand here we must do our. working and living, our courting and marry ug, conduct our simple. villian practice good works, Prisoners "in deed, and the nice Hlitle lines which various poets have penned regarding liberty, and this having no relation to iron bars and stone walls, cheer tz hot at all, for few poets ever knew anything ubout restrictions either of thought, person, property. Methinks it will take a good deal of poetry to Woo some of us to a loving appreciation of our tittle hamlet nowadays,
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