Shanghai, Aug. 1. We have long known ' that our sninese friends can be regarded as he Robinson Crusoes of the world, wee they are so adept at making hift under all sorts of circumstances, ult even old residents have been asnished at the uses some of them nave, from time to time, been able 9 make of our up-to-date appointnents. Few of us have realized what ould have been done with material eady to our hand. The lions on the jund, for instance, when not in the un make excellent matter on which 0 cool the fevered brow, as I have gen sundry refugees trying to do. men, oUF Massive iron gates. Tt has rebably never occurred to office folk vho walla in behind them every day hat these are fine pendants for owly washed linen, the said linen ceiving its cleansing at some yérant near by, The mother of a mall family had all her children's mall clothes breezing in fine style, ud depending from heavily wrought ron gates in Hankow Road the other norning, and in such situation they vould dry in no time, Rough cement granite door posts make fine back cratchers apparently, and an empty jarette tin 1s a good drinking cup.
Stone steps are cooler seats than lown-stuffed cushions and have the vantage of being situated in airy veys and not in stutly rooms, while n addition they are good reducers of superabundant adipose tissue. "Sit na hard seat always it you do not wish to spread" reads a beauty note hand, and what could be harder han a granite step?
Tu spite of this we shall be glad seo the hundreds of thousands of city, some of it may be placed to aid most necessitous class.
This particular class did not exist! 20 years ago, and the few needy cases! then were easily dealt with, but now the army of working women Is growing, or rather the army of Shanghalborn women is increasing, and years godby doubtless more and more will need to work whether they get the opportunities to do so or not.
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