Blue waters and green and the Far East today . let it go that way,—it is poorer than it is pure.)Their ads. are all lumped together anyhow, jumbled,not classified, and the worst written ads. ever. Noattempt to attract attention or boost their So-and-So beg to announce that theyhavejust received a consignment of Blanks Baby all. They remind one of the small boy whosefather sent him down town to sell a bag of sweetcorn. He came home with the corn unsold. Hisfather asked him why he did not sell it. Darnedif I know, said the boy; two or three people askedme what I had in m
Blue waters and green and the Far East today . let it go that way,—it is poorer than it is pure.)Their ads. are all lumped together anyhow, jumbled,not classified, and the worst written ads. ever. Noattempt to attract attention or boost their So-and-So beg to announce that theyhavejust received a consignment of Blanks Baby all. They remind one of the small boy whosefather sent him down town to sell a bag of sweetcorn. He came home with the corn unsold. Hisfather asked him why he did not sell it. Darnedif I know, said the boy; two or three people askedme what I had in my bag, and I told them it was noneof their business. Their goods are there, you oughtto know it, and they wait on you as though they weredoing you the greatest favor in permitting you to buyany of their justly celebrated stuff. We wouldntcall it advertising at home, but it goes out there. By the way, speaking of newspapers, Manila hastwo, or rather three—two evening and one American is morning, the Times and Cable even- [178]. SHANGHAI ing. The American and Times are owned by theSpeyers, who built the street railway in Manila andare trying with considerable success to get a firstmortgage on the Islands. The Cable News is ownedby its editor, who is the Bill White of the is always raising heU about something, and withconsiderable success. People out there seem to relyon it more than the corporation-owned Americanand Times. While I was there they were bluffingeach other over which paid the most cable tolls forforeign news. Offering to put up one hundred pesosto back their claims, all of which sounded very fa-miliar; but as a matter of fact I could pay themonthly cable tolls of both of them without strain-ing my letter of credit much. Most of their cablesare faked, guesses that have to be denied later. There are two Shanghais. Old Shanghai, an an-cient walled city, native, pure and simple, that is athousand years old; and there is what we think of asS
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