Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, May 26, 1913, Page 7

PLUT SEVEY lishe eir own Title government on Ea strip of land separated from the , main settlement by a baby canal. Over there Shanghai is wholly French +in architecture, customs and people i and is well worth visiting. A muni- | cipal council elected annually s in | charge of the foreign settlement. The eri(ish usually control the council, | but there are always American and | German members, and there is very little national rivalry. Modern Shanghai Is Imposing. The area administered or influenced ; to the point of control by the western- rers has grown steadily, so that the | modern city of Shanghai is very im- | posing. Four, five and six-story gray . and red stone buildings with elevators | line the wide, clean streets. Up-to- date stores sport plate glass windows, ample showcases and a first-class line of goods, sometimes a little out of | date, from Paris, London and New IYork. The best rickshas in China, with wide seats and flat rubber tires, wriggle their way at all hours be- tween carriages and motor cars. Small drays lumber about with mer- chandise and panting coolies trot along all day under their iong poles laden at either end with packages. Launches and tugs shriek up and down the river from morning to night. All the banks, leading business houses and principal clubs have their own buildings. There is a plentiful { supply of newspapers In KEnglish, French, Chinese and Japanese. The | North China Daily News, a typical British organ of the colonial type, 18 a powerful daily with a record of forty years of publication to bolster up its No Lie on the Cgay, No Lye in the Capy Peaches Pears Apricots Cherries Hawaiian Pine Apple Pure»‘F(fi)Od Store | W.P, Pillans & Co. PHONE 93 bemng [werfiy mIles from \ll the big ships anchor the ocean at Wusung and their passengers and cargo are taken up by tug. The ton- nage of the port grew from practical ly ‘nothing in 1842 to over 3,000,000 tons in 1884, and now it is about 17, 000,000 tons annually. . NEED A FREQUENT CLEANING Beauty Speclalists Are Wise When They Urge Patrons to Give Their Vells Regular Ablutions. The beauty specialists ask their cus- tomers sometimes whether they change their veils frequently and have them cleaned, just as they would other items of thelr attire, and when the answer is in the negative, they explain that veils are dust and germ collectors, and should really be changed very often. The white vell gets a bath frequently, for it shows soil so readily that there is no evading it, but every one does not know that other veils meed ablutions now and then. The veil should be squeezed in soap suds several times and rinsed in two waters, using a little blueing in the last rinsing for black or blue wveil ings. Then a little cold starch shovit be mixed, in the proportion of & tea spoontul of powdered starch to & pint of lukewarm water; squeeze the veil twice loosely through this solution, shake it out and roll it in a cloth for| ! about 15 minutes, Meanwhile lay a mat on a table and TRADING BOATS ON RIVER tion. Shanghai is oriental. Shanghal | boasted of only twenty-three foreign 18 occidental. It has been a foreign residents, one lonely consul, eleven metropolis for fifty years, before many | puginess houses and two protestant American citles were ever heard of. ( pjggionaries, with a small native pop- All roads lead to Shanghal, as they | yjation. Today it is one of the world's are supposed to lead to Rome. They | greatest ports and boasts 450,000 peo- | reach it through river junks, rallroads ;le of whom 15,000 are foreigners from the interior, merchantmen from gleaned from every country on the the north and south coasts, liners globe, all beneficlaries of a total an- from Japan, Australia, India, Europe : a1 trade aggregating $250,000,000 conservatism. The China Press, an ' cover it with newspapers. Then pin American daily, started two years ago | the lower edge of the vell straight by Thomas F. Millard, is already a | along the edge of the table, stretching huge success by virtue of hard work ' the rest of the vell as smoothly as pos- and good editing on the best Ameri- ' sible and pinning it to the table. Ires can lines, and enjoys the largest cir- | with a hot iron, and the net will have culation of all foreign journals in the the crispness of a new vell far east. Chiffon vells or scarfs may also be Chinese faith in occidental methods ~washed, but should be ironed on the is shown in the way the natives have {roning board and need no starch flocked into the settlement. Their , Tulle bows may also be done up fresh- stores are seen everywhere and scores ly in the same manner as a mesh veil 0OKS, articles and poems by the ton have been written on (hina. Foreigners by the hun- dred have covered the shelves ! of the world's libraries with wmes devoted to China's history, its people, its peculiarities and its possi- bilities. A survey of all this might make one think that western workers o the “celestial empire” have done wothing there, are nothing there. Kor } erery twenty writers who serve up musty lore there is hardly one to teil | the vivid story of occidental influence fo that old but not unchangeable land Whenever such a rarity appears he ' gets his inspiration from Shanghal, i the hub of foreign activity in China, | { writes F. J. Haskin, in the Chicago | | Daily News, | | Pekin has its matchless treasures, | i Soochow its grand canal, Nanking Its | relics of the Ming emperors, Cheefoo | its missions and its laces, Canton its lcurios and Hongkong its peak, but Shanghai is just Shanghai. and (hrrcff is none like it. Shanghai has refresh- ‘ | ‘lng bits of the wonders the others | display to the cxtent of satiety, with plenty of additional attractions dis- tinctly Shanghaiese. Its rivals cannot | ceven do it th mpliment of imita 'and America, Shanghai occupies the tip of Kiang: su province, “the garden of centra! China.” The site is on the west bank of the Hwangpo river, in the extreme eastern part of the province, just a stone’s throw from the mighty Yang- stzekiang, and only twenty miles from the ocean. Back of it is a fertile al- luvial plain of 45,000 square miles, supporting a population of many grow- ing millions. the truits of whose labor 80 to Shanghai by steam and sail. In front is a large share of the China- ward commerce of the world. Its Ports Opened in 1842, In 1842 Shanghai became an open port for foreign trade along with Nan- king, Amoy and Ningpo, following the opium war waged against China by Great Britain and France. At the end of the first year of general trade it gold. Western officlals rule over Shang- hai began more than fifty years ago. At the suggestion of the British con- sul a narrow strip of land about one mile long and about half as wide was set aside for foreigners. This be- came the British and French settle- ments, bounded by Suchow creek and the Yangking canal. Later the Ameri- cans were given a concession across the ereck. For a time the settlements were governed by the British, French and American consuls. As the foreign city grew and foreign interests de- veloped, so the admiristration of its affairs became systematized. Manage- ment of public business was later vested in a municipal council elected | by the taxpayers. For reasons of their own the French withdrew from this plan several years ago and estab- 1 000,000 gold. of ex-officials or wealthy men own ! and occupy palatial residences. Ap- proximately 125,000 Chinese live there, while the population of the old Chi- nese city with its typically dirty streets and cluttered up stores is about 280,000. Koreigners in the se tlement number 4,000 Britishers, 3,000 Japanese, 1,500 Portuguese, 1,000 Americans, possibly 1,000 Germans and more than 500 Indians. The Chi- nese who have a right to vote and otherwise control the settlement, and i there are thousands of them, are so Difference. The only difference between '8 (. | 0aprice and & lite-long passion is thet the caprice lasts a little longer.—The Tattler PHOLSTER.WG ARD MATTRESS MAKING, well satisficd with matters as they aro | Ola Mattresses made over; cushiomt that they leave public business entire- | ly to the foreigners. 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