It is pleasant to record the Adelity of July' in Shanghai to the traditions which' that month "has acquired in the meteorological records, Tigers who have been grumbling at the wish-washy temperament of June and have been disposed to {ell the newly-arrived griffins that Shanghai's weather was going to the dogs like alt other institutions which the cager newcomer effusively takes 10 his heart, are beginning to be cheer ful. 'They feel that their prophecies fof prickly heat, the thirst that is too Jong for' the ordinary tumbler, the general liquidity of human flesh, are Ukely to be fulfilled, Perhaps' the enthusiasm in spreading the cele~ bration of Independence Day over the whole of the week-end put the July heat imps on their mettle. Certainly the general conditions of the thermometer reassured any Frenchmen who may have feared that their own fervent demonstrations on July 14 might have to be carried out in furs and snowshoes. In short the hot weather has arrived and arguments will have to be elreumspecily conducted in the interest of temper and comfort. the Race Course shows the reviewing stand which Dr. J. C, McCracken, President from the chairs of the polo club,
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