April 28, 1916. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 25 
LETTER FROM CHINA « 
Henry MERRILL, SON OF MR. AND 
Mrs. F. J. Merritt, MANcHES- 
TER, GuEST OF CHINESE Gov- 
gee ERNOR. 
A remarkably interesting letter has 
been received from Henry Merrill, 
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Merrill of 
Manchester, in which he describes a 
visit to the Governor of the Kwang- 
tung Province of China in which the 
city of Canton is located. Mr. Mer- 
rill is a member of the Board of Con- 
servation doing work in China and is 
stationed at Canton. He has had 
some interesting experiences in China. 
Although Mr. Merrill calls Canton 
his headquarters he lives on a house- 
boat. At one time the party had 
Chinese soldiers for servants, but they, 
skipped one day and since then the 
party does its. own cooking. Mr. 
Merrill’s letter regarding the visit to 
the home of the Governor of Kwang- 
tung and his interesting account of 
the reception follows: 
“The civil Governor of Kwangtung 
has been appointed a member of the 
Conservancy Board and as he desired 
to take a ‘look-see’ at the foreign 
staff, he did us the honor of granting 
us an audience on Saturday, March 4. 
Captain Tsao, assistant to Admiral 
Tau took us there. .We left our Yo- 
men at 2.30 and rode in chairs into 
the old city, then through its very 
narrow, crowded, dirty, wet, smelly 
streets to the Governor’s Yomen. 
There we were halted outside by the 
guard while our coolie took our cards 
to the Major Domo. We were then 
admitted to the first courtyard where 
we waited until the Major Domo was 
ready to go in with us. In this first 
courtyard were many dirty-looking 
Chinese soldiers and four mounted 
cannon of rather old style. At the 
entrance to the courtyard are two 
large stone carved lions wearing a 
most hidious grin and painted in 
nearly every color of the rainbow. 
“Finally we started down in with 
the Major Domo, whose coolie pre- 
ceded us, carrying our four cards held 
high over his head like a hand of 
cards. We then entered a big, rather 
barn-like building, went up one flight, 
passed through a circular doorway 
into a small bare room. ‘There was 
a table set with a gorgeous center- 
piece of flowers, plates, knives, forks, 
spoons, champagne glasses, tea and 
plates of cakes and cigarettes and 
cigars. We sat at the table until in a 
few minutes in came His Excellency, 
the Governor, escorted by eight sold- 
iers, the first of whom was bearing a 
bottle of champagne. Captain Tsao 
and the Major Domo kowtowed, but 
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we merely shook hands. 
“We all sat again and the soldiers 
passed cakes, cigars and cigarettes. 
We all took a cigarette, but of course 
did not smoke it. Champagne was 
poured, but as per Chinese etiquette, 
we did not touch it, for that would be 
a sign that we wanted to leave. 
“There were some general ques- 
tions asked about the work and its 
finances, with Captain Tsao inter- 
preting. 
“Then the Governor picked up his 
champagne, bowed to us, we picked 
up ours, bowed back, then drank. 
This was a sign for us to finish our 
business and leave, which we did, the 
Governor bowing us out through two 
doors. We rode back to headquar- 
CEES; 
“We found the Governor a very 
refined, pleasant man, and his pres- 
ence on the Board will assist conser- 
vancy to a great extent.” 
Bobby (trying to get away)—Say, 
pa, wait a minute. Didn’t you tell 
the callers last night that I couldn’t 
-be beat for mischief ? 
Father—That’s just what I did 
you young rascal. 
Bobby—Well, then, what do you 
mean by beating me now? 
SHUBERT THEATRE, BOSTON. 
There must necessarily be much ac- 
tion, including speedy comedy, lively 
dancing, effective singing, and general 
originality in a performance where 
such established entertainers as Clif- 
ton Crawford, Conroy & LeMaire, 
Collins & Hart, Timberg & Darling, 
Venita Fitzhugh, Margaret Edwards, 
Helen Goff, McMahan, Diamond & 
Chaplow, Franklin Batie and dainty 
Rosie Quinn are the principals, and 
that is just the case with “A World 
of Pleasure,” the latest and biggest 
of all the New York Winter Garden 
shows that the Messrs. Shubert have 
sent over to Boston. 
This aggregation of talent in “A 
World of Pleasure” will be seen for 
the fourth successful week at the 
Shubert Theatre, beginning next 
Monday evening, May ist. Taken all 
in all “A World of Pleasure” is just a 
little in advance in all departments 
of any Winter Garden show ever of- 
fered in this city. There will be pop- 
ular priced matinees on Wednesday 
and Friday of the coming week. The 
remarkable joyland scene is proving a 
great delight to the children especially 
and it is at the same time no less at- 
tractive to the grown folk. 
