'The preparations for celebrating 'Their Majesties' Coronation in Shang hal are proceeding apace. 'The enagement list 1g assuming portentous proportions and the celebrant who proposes to do full justice to the occasion will have to display to the {full those bulldog qualities on which the race is supposed to' pride itself. As on the eve of the great week—ii sins to spread beyond that arbitrary limit of time—the Spring Races will command the attention "of patriotic Shanghailanders, Mfay is ikely to be 'a month which will be long remem~ beered here, 'The hardened performer fon the social treadmill "will, no doubt, laugh at these fears, Hetand especially she—have long' acquired the right deftness in permitting their Umbs to go through the motions of festive gyration without straining either their emotions or their morale. StL there are others for whom the Impending ordeal holds considerable qualms, With trepidation do they vie the "accumuistion of engagements which cannot all be fuldiied without possession of the qualities of Sir Boyle Roche's famous bird. However, they will suppress these anxieties with the loyalty. proper to the occasion, Tt might help them it some thoughtful ispenser of medical advice could devise expedients for adjusting cor-boreal capacity to the physical re~ quirements of the season. Doctors should do this in. self-protection; otherwise they may find their walting rooms unpleasantly crowded when
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