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phones), “trams"-" (trombones), "horns" (trumpets), "skins" cern the Government only a little (drums), and "woodpiles" (xylo- less than the actual prosecution phones). Accompanying them is

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civilians farther into the inter-dicts), but very few are "long- hairs" (people who like classical

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ior are nullified by the additional music). And so the tongue that Shakespeare spake receives yet refugees continually arriving another and considerable transat- from the North and East. The lantic kick in the pants.

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A Frugal Epoch

incessantly pressed back, piling up on each other behind the front line, is common to Spain ple to wear simple clothes, to re- An appeal to the Japanese peo-

and China; it has been aggravat-frain from buying new ones, and to limit their meals would seem ed by the natural tendency of to mark a return to the Spartan country people everywhere to conditions of old Japan. Until seek the towns at moments

little more than half a century ago no Japanese could eat, wear danger. The result has been the a garment, or ride in a convey- swollen populations of Shanghai, ance without strict observance of Nanking, Hankow, Barcelona, and sumptuary laws which had been Madrid. It is remarkable that in force for many generations. in all these cities a major epide- Whatever a man's rank, he might Imic has so far been avoided. have no more than a fixed num

China is fortunate in that she ber of dishes at his ordinary has received large supplies of meals, and there were minute serums and vaccine which have, instructions about the quantity for the present at any rate, pre-of sake permissible, even vented the spread of cholera in highest offcfals being limi the war zones.

three cure and

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