Only very - impressionable or except optimistic Shanghailanders could put their heads out of their bedroom verandahs yester~ day morning early and assert that they could sniff the perfume of Autumn's cool presence. It could not be yoinsaid that Autumn had begun for the Calendar testified to that fact, but there was otherwise nothing to show that the bondage of the hot weather had broken in the slightest degree. The aftermath of the typhoon still lingered to faint hint of coolness, but there were signs of a rapid recovery of technique by the stoking apparatus of the hot weather regime. "It may be that a fortnight hence the sleuths who track down the advance guards of Autumn's array will begin to report results, In reality the hardened resident will refuse fo be moved until he detects in the air of days break that definite crispness which makes him think pleasantly of gallop on the racecourse. The not weather still rules, and it has probably a good deal up its stifing' sleeve, but it would be ungracious. not' to salute the arrival Autumn even if that mellow personage present= ly has to conform to the tyrannical bidding of the heat and humidity combined,
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