Now, away down the East India Dock road our Settlement ran a workingman's hostel, where for sixpence a-night he could obtain a good bed with washing facilities, hot and cold water, and for a bob a night he could have a cubicle of his own. In the large common room at the entrance were tables and benches and chairs, and, (extremely important), there were three or four gas cookers on which, at a penny' a time, any man could cook himself hhis fashers of bacon and fried eggs, 8 the majority of the men were regulars" living at the hostel week. im week out, they had their "own Gone Lean in Shanghai Being fairly well informed, one is aware that the above is not good national doctrine from the average British point of view. 'The majority of British fallen upon lean times, much prefer to go lean in England, "Home" as they call it, than go lean Shanghai. 1 have never under~ stood the reasoning of this, but there It is, and it Is up fo every' individual to qo lean whither and where it suits him best.
Shanghai suits me down to the. ground, 1 can do far far more on $30 a month in Shanghai than ever could do on cight-shillings-and-four-pence-halfpenny a week in Eng-and.
should not omit to explain that: the arithmetical mind is again at work here, for if a Shanghai controlled dollar 5, 1/2%4d., it follows. that $20 of these symbols of value: must represent s, 8/44d. a week in "Merrie England,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.