Do not be surprised if a rickshaw puller profers a ten-sen nickel coin in returning you change, but accept it, because more likely than not, you will be able to make use if it somewhere else on this side of Soochow Creek. If not, there is & chance that sooner or later you have something to do on the other side and the puller there, as well as any shopkeeper will be pleased to accept the Japanese coin in payment.
The coin shortage has its advantages of course to those retail business people who have found it necessary to increase their prices by ten per cent. or more. Thus for instance, if an item was previously priced at $1.50 is to be increased by ten per cent, the new price' will automatically be $1.70 so as not to "inconvenience" the purchaser, by asking him to have a five-cent coin handy. whilst the shopkeeper is relieved of the difficult task of preferring small change, and he makes an additional profit of five cents.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.