A letter to the editor:—
I shall be grateful to anyone who could give me a good recipe to destroy cockroaches, or at Jeasi keep them away.
Well, so far as we can see it all depends what you really want to do. The cockroaches we Wish to destroy we shoot, those we wish to keep away we give a nasty look. Probably the most effective way of killing the little devils is with bath brick. The method is quite simple. You first catch your cockroach, turn him over on his back and holding him thus, firmly, read this column to him. When he laughs pop a small dose of powdered bath-brick into his mouth, death being instantaneous, if not quicker.
This Mysterious Schemozzle From "Great Britain and the East;"—
Interesting reports are heard of Chinese aeroplanes flying over and dropping bombs in Japan. The writer has reason to believe that four of them did thus visit Nagasaki, though without doing much damage. There is no reason why they should not. From Shanghai to Nagasaki is 465 miles. Close by are the important coal mines, ironworks, and shipyards of Moji. Say 1,000 miles for the round trip—not at all an excessive distance—and luscious rewards to be gained in giving the Japanese a taste of their own medicine, We do think the Chinese spokesman should have told us all about it, instead of keeping so quiet.
The Female of the Species RAMIE-SAN, a patriotic waitress of the Cafe Shinko, on Kotobukicho, Tientsin, has been giving her impressions of the warfare in that district. Referring to the aerial bombing of that city, she is reported to have said:—
"It was a most thrilling sight. From the roof top of the Peiyang Fantien on Kotobuki Road, I watched a unit of Japanese warplanes conduct an aerial bombardment upon the Chinese positions in the city including the Municipal Government Building, the Tientsin Central Station, the Nankai University, the Telephone That was on the morning of shot tells' was the word for the Japanese bombardment. It was just like seeing a moving picture. How I enjoyed it; it was really the experience of a life time.
It is a pleasant thought that someone enjoyed the bombing, isn't it, Tamie-san? Bloodthirsty little beauty!
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.