Sin—In_ answer to amtans? Tetter about the Basket Fair, may I state that this Fair has been held for years before Shanghai was Duilt, when only Bubbling Well Temple was existing, and is not an insult thrown at the Shanghai Public, Tt is to enable the country folk to get rid of their "home craft" made during the long wet winter days, and for them to buy articles which they cannot make themselves but net during the rest of the year. I, myself, buy things which I cannot get at any' other time and have happy memories fof hours spent during my childhood. with cook and amah, bargain hunting among the booths and stalls, Tt also has been known that the shop keepers extract "little squeeze" from stall holders parked before their doors.
We have to congratulate the S.M.C. fu the fine and orderly way in which they arranged this year's Fair, "And by the way "Poon Peorsrata yeatting shelters" are "not Vatraw ts Lave ano Ler Live, Shanghai, May 13.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.