Shanghailanders had more than their cares and worries to cope with terday as a heat wave hit the city th its favourite Sunday punch to send thousands into the parks to seek shelter from the sweltering temperature of the narrow streets and lanes. Worst hit, as usual, were the Chinese living in smaller thoroughfares and this resulted in hundreds leaving their homes for the cooler air of the roads.
Being a Sunday, chairs in the parks were as usual at a premium, but the lucky possessors of such were seen to be dragging them into shade, beneath widely spread branches of high trees and in the narrow alleyways completely hidden in foliage. Refreshment kiosks, on the other hand. thanked their lucky stars for the heat, their business booming with all their tables occupied By holidaymakers escaping from the stifling air of the city. Good business was also done by Chinese hawkers, selling cool drinks and ices to their clientele through the fence of Jessfeld Park.
Dining Room—Blitzkrieg Style While a great number had to struggle for chairs in parks, others spend their day along Hungjao Road, with at least a score of refreshment huts io serve their needs, Rio Rita, behind the Jessfield Park, was also the This well designed concrete and steel shelter, built in the dining: room of a suburban house,; certainly brings sajcty as well as comfort inside the home. It shelters four sleepers comfortably. The top bunk can be let down to form a settee. The picture shows a scene in a 1941 dining room complete with its modern shelter.
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