To the Editor of the "Mobrh-Chixn Dany News"
Sm,—Feeling a little low this morning and in need of cheering up, I thought it would be a good plan to try the recipe that Japanese authorities have, according to the Japanese spokesman quoted in Friday's issue of your paper, devised for keeping the Japanese forces happy. This recipe includes kerosene, piece goods, gasoline, tobacco stalk and leaf, cotton yarn, paper, sandalwood, sugar and Sea products, charcoal, candles and tallow, soda ash, and "sundries"; nol to mention the pleasure given to the fighting men by the export down the Yangtze of wheat, eggs, sesamum seed, oil, albumen and other egg products, rice, melon seeds, peas, featthers, medicine, beans, ramie, tea, hides, and "bristles, iron ore—and dried lilies.
Many of us have tried to find happiness in some of these things without conspicuous success. For example, charcoal and ramie have never caused uproarious merriment among ry friends, while most of them find it difficult even to tolerate hides and bristles. Ana the rest of the list ugly proves how easy the Japanese troops are to please. But dried lilies! Is thi pre no possibility there? I sent out for a dried Wy. It was a disappointment. The sun shines no Sei than it did before the advent of the, dried Wy, and I cannot help thinking that the fault must be my own. Perhaps some of your readers could enlighten me. Hoy does one "keep "happy" on dried lilies? No one in our house knows even what to do with them, Down In Thk Dumps.
Shanghai, Nov. 19.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.