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Show A Chinese poet has laLiy been describing de-scribing the semi-English town of Shanghai. Ho sings the "ten aspects as-pects af the barbarian district," and describes how, at Shanghai, "ten thousand merchants, crowded together to-gether as thick as clouds, trade with men of foreign countries." "The foreign women," be observes, "carry umbrellas and walk with their husbands hus-bands shoulder to shoulder. Tbe fang in walk, walk, walk; they talk, t hey converse, they discuss; their velocipedes are swift, they pasB by thereon like a cloud." The poet must haye witnessed a meet of four-in-hands, for he says : "In the carriage car-riage these devila are like Tchou-ko-liang," a terrible strategist of the Han dynasty, but he adds: "The races are the most uninteresting things possible to see; it is bettor worth one's while to attend tho military mili-tary examinations." Business-like habits are not to hia taste. "The busybodies," he ntca, "set their old watches every moment by the municipal mun-icipal clock. The gas burns all night." wmxaaiTmr |