Evening star., 1924-11-30

a polo field in the racing grounds.
Foot ball is played there, and there
are tennis tournaments in early sum-
mer, which culminate in the Hong
(busin ess house) championship. There
are also athletic tournaments and base
ball matches in which the best play
ers of our Asiatic squadron and of
the Shanghai civilians fight for the
championship. There ares also games
In which the visiting clubs from the
Philippines, Japan and Hawaii COM
pete with Chinese. and last year
base ball round robin was played In
which representatives from these
countries took part. This was cap
tured by the All-Fflipino club, which
won every game. In 1t the Mainchi
team which came from Osaka, tied
the 18th Infantry for second place.
Shanghai has hockey clubs. polo
clubs and swimming clubs. Hockey
is played largely by the Sikh police
and Britishers, who learned the game
in India, and the polo clubs are
largely British, their mounts being
Manchurian ponies trained for the
purpose.
CHANGHAI is the social center OF
- this part Of the world. This is
so especially of the foreigners, and
it Is so also to a large extent Of the
Chinese. There are teas and din
ners, mems clubs and women's clubs.
and educational and literary associa-
tions of every description. The edu-
cational institutions are many. There
are 120 primary schools, middle
schools, q high school and technical
schools for textile workers. The
town has a public library that was
started at about the time the repub-
lie was founded. 1t has taken the
place Of an old temple, and another
temple nearby has been turned into
hospital. The library has 100000
volumes. Adjoining 1t is a public
lecture hall, which has meetings
three times a week. The lectures
cover public health. sanitation, educa-
tion and similar subjects
The city is also an art center, both
ancient and modern. During my stay
there has been an exhibition of fs-
eign and native artists. The pf.~
lures were in oil and water coiors
and they were quite as creditabfe
as the annual exhibitions of new
works given at the Corcoran Art CAL
lery in Washington.
Shanghai has its night life and
many of its games are played in the
shadows. There are cabarets and
cafes of different descriptions. There
are vaudeville houses where one can
dance with the actresses, and caba-
rets largely aided by maidens from
Russia, who try to induce the guests
to drink champagne with them at
something like $12 a quart. These
maidens come not only from Moscow,
but from vladivostok, Chta and
Omsk. in Siberia, and Harbin, near the
frontier of that country in northern
Manchuria. Some of them are beau
tiful, but the price Of champagne is
high.
Among the spectacular features OF
the new China are the motion pic
ture theaters, Of which there are
many, and two great houses known
as the New World at the beginning
of the Bubbling Well road. The New
World Is a great three-story building,
which at night blazes as brightly as
the structures on the Great White
Way of New York. 1t has all sorts
of shows and 1t might be called a
Coney Island under cover. 1t is
frequented by the Chinese and it has
dances at which Chinese girls in for
eign costume. sometimes even to the
bobbed hair of the flapper, GO whirl-
ing about in the arms of their sweet
hearts.
All told. the city is worth crossing
the Pacific, a distance of 5000 miles,
.for to see." -.-
Copyright. 1924, Carpenters World Trs ais.