The compradore tells us that he is selling little. butter "and 'a. lot margarine these days, ud the dress shops say that business is Aourishing which "items" of information rather {ive point to one conred bachelors Femark that. women here will cut down on the table of their poor husbands, But they will not out down fon dress. Well, how bachelors in the first-case get all their fistshand knowledge of women is noi our business and we will. not enquire oe closely; perhaps they have. time! to read-a'iot and got it that way.
We will say this, in extenuation of jour alleged extravagance; if we ald for spend, money would not cir late and then. tote and lots of People "would starve, We have fo fend at the. grocers and Wwe like to divide custom and give the poor tailors end. dressmakers a chance as well. If we say that by dressing. well we All many mouths the remark may be taken in more than one way, but we mean that we help to permit: the poor. dressmaker eat. We know of more than ons 00d. dressmaker "here who" has find comfortable old" age assured by. the "good dressing. off Shanghai
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