For psychological, rather than mathematical, reasons "July often seems to. be an exceptionally ry, and long-drawn-out month, reason Shanghai has Probably welcomed the arrival' of August even though that month cannot promise to demand less dally labour from the monthly employes. July. gracefully tried. to" compensate {for its intemperate conduct by staging a cooling thunderstorm on the afternoon of its last appearance. The gesture was gratefully saluted.
the duty of August to remember that on the 23rd instant the beat is supposed to stop. With that under slanding Shanghai woke up on the frst {in good heart. The contention is that there are only three weeks more of extreme discomfort to endure. Then cheerful expectation will brace itself to look forward to the beginning) of September, on the eighth day of which the pleasant White Dew puts fan end to the dubious Joys of sleeping outdoors on the ground and formally announces that the glorious eflspness of the early autumn within hailing distance,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.