Helpful Hints to Those Who Need Them Acceptable gifts? But, you may say, it isn't Christmas or Easter or anything of that kind—why, therefore should acceptable gifts interest me? Reader, consider for a moment. As one of Shanghai's radio stations tells us with a melodious frequency. "It's somebody's birthday to-day." Also People are getting married in ever-increasing numbers and want wedding Presents—also it's within the octave of St, Valentine—and if you forgot last Monday what you should have remembered in this connection, there is still time to put things right—also people are having anniversaries, silver weddings, golden ditto, some are going away, others are coming back and—well, anyhow, everybody living in Shanghai in this year of disgrace deserves a present anyway.
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