Shanghai, May 2.
The spring-cleaning season being upon us housewives are wistfully scanning our attractive shop windows: and wondering if the family budget will permit of new drawing room covers this year, or if the old summer curtains must be persuaded to hang for another season, Beautiful models of modern vacuum cleaners are being Welghed in usefulness and offictency against. the old coolie brush which sheds its component parts all over the house, and deep calculations made, New garden chairs are being contemplated, and the question of fee once again' intruding its chilly importance in the summer scheme of things.
a merciful thing that the common tasks of daily life help to make for balance and reason when World upheavals. threaten to. upset both, With" women particularly, Irrelevant and small intrusions often We may be "The Shepherds of the Delectable Mountains" at Oxford, and with expert ability: behind the production Shanghai people can take their parties of friends to see it with confidence, knowing that a thoroughly enjoyable evening is ahead.
The affair Is being arranged order to ald the funds for the poor of St, Nicholas Church.
The concert arranged by the Musical and Dramatic Section of the HWA, and which should have taken place "on Thursday Vast had—unfortunately to be postponed.
Mrs. military aggressor, but the sitting oom cushions must have new covers whatever happens; armaments may be important in the news, but the new spring styles in coats are really urgent. It is perhaps good that some are blessed with certain safety Valves which save us from too much unhealthy mental exertion, T remem~ ber on one painful occasion in my: youth having to listen to the reading '9¢ a very earnest paper dealing with the: proper distribution of wealth. was a private reading, and the author was trying out his efforts at oratory his home circle previous to staggering some mental up-lifters in public with "his marvellous Ideas, Certainly he used some high-sounding terms, and his poor wife and T, scarce understanding a sentence, listened with what patience we could muster. When he had finished he looked to for approval (and doubtless. for startled wonder), but the first thing his wife said was: "Daddy, Sarah forgot to order the cocoa at the grocer's this morning, would you take coffee with your supper, or will it Keeep you awake? Of course, only a wife with a detachment like that Could live with a man who insisted upon addressing meetings upon subjects above wifely understanding. and trying them out on the family dog fist, But for the saving grace of trivial things, lots of us would be in the mad-house. In Shanghi simists tell us that we have.a tei summer before us? that the going to be frightful, and disease will be rampant, We do not let that worry us too much, for we have the children's new oulfls to see to, and the boy or the amah may be relied upon to keep our thoughts from too great an occupation with things outside the home,
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