With the very little knowledge which the average layman has rcgarding matters medical, and health, it would be interesting to know the reason for the survival of! some folk who not only ignore every Taw of health but who seem to out of their way to catch anything} awful which is going. Take for Instance the coolies and the people who live near coffin repositories and mortuaries. On the.barges which for so long harboured the thousand dead, we are told that coolies lived and slept and ate, At a mortuary in [Kigochow Road which, through the smells and fies, is a great nuisance comfortable, The Peak We are told that the peak of living costs has been reached but what precisely does that mean? Does it Imply that we have scaled the top of 'Mount High Cost Of Living, and can now gently slide into the valley of Easy Prices T think not; more likely' wwe have reached one hill-top only to find, like the traveller on Life's way, that we have yet to scale more arduous economic peaks. Time will tell.
fo look on the bright side of present conditions though, we cannot 50 far complain that we have been kept short though prices are much higher than the oldest resident can remember} in fact the further back memory foes, the cheaper were costs all round, For. once we say heartily, ood old days. The seasonable fruits, though abundant, have shown warworn weariness for nothing is up to the quality of yesteryear, while the shortage of vegetables may have a reflection later upon public health. 'A Shanghai woman keen on statistics once counted up the different kinds of vegetables it was possible to get Shanghai and she should account for 45 different kinds. In the past this respect it has proved true that what we had we prized not to the worth while we enjoyed it, but are racking the value now.
Tin the light of recent events perhaps one old proverb should be allered: it is not the hand that rocks the cradle which rules the world, but the farmer who wields the hoe and the spade. We have got to the stage now when to the average housewife's gaze, a brown perspiring coolie with a couple of baskets of green vegetables slung over his shoulder is a more welcome and beautiful sight than a film star in all her glory.
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