in Nanking Nanking, Feb. 6.
By order of the Metropolitan Police Headquarters, all Chinese owned shops and stores are not to set up foreign language signboards {n the city. Only foreign firms, it Is decreed, may erect signboards in their own languages
ral News, advertise their business—Cen-
[face by a niggardly display 1s commonly regarded as an unpardonable social offence. However heavy the outlay, the families of both bride and bridegroom appear to derive rear consolation from these quaint cere montes—an illuminating commentary on the firm belief of the people in the continuity of existence beyond the grave, which Is @ counterpart to life on the earth,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.