Ta the Editor of the '"Nonru-Cuiva Dany News"
Sm—tI must confess that I am Alsappointed. A-few days ago one of your readers enquired as to the origin of, that useful little word "Maskee". He wrote that he had been using it for years but was unable to reply when someone asked him how the word originated. All he gots in reply is a "pointer" saying that the word has been duly explained in What is Shanghai coming to when neither the Editor nor the readers of the "North-China Daily News" can tell your correspondent the meaning, pf the simple word, a word which for "generations has led men and women away from the path of honesty and virtue; has caused bankruptcies, suicides and scandals, but, on the other hand, has made' life endurable strange surroundings.
Don't your think that Cumous is fgntitled to something more than a "pointer"
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