Cabaret girls, amahs, housewives and vegetable hawkers were probably the ones to suffer most, The noon and early afternoon tea dance buslhess was bad when compared with ood Saturday afternoon. The rain kept vegetable "hawkers away" from most of the streets where they usually ply their business, and so they were foreed to play hide-and.seele with arnebs and thrifty housewives many of whom returned home empty~ handed, While pork is highly priced and vegetables are, so hard to obtain these days the Chinese "menu has fo be simplified. "A noodle: meal is the order of the day. 'This was spe: cially true yesterday when many husbands' who are southerners had to eat noodles at timn, 11 goes without saying that the rain also drove pedestrians and shoppers from the roads and as usual Dig department stores in the central district did not do much business, Fewer customers patronized the buses which might have meant a great deal 10 those conductors who Were bent on "squeezing," Shops selling rain coats and rain or rubber shoes, however, were exceptions, They have been doing booming business judging from the big advertisements they published the Chinese pre
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