Where Ready Money Is Scarce

In the Britisk settlement in the great Dhinese city of Shanghai ready money s practically unkuown. Af ter you have had lunch at a restaurant you calmly get up and walk out without a thought of payment in cash. Some time later in ;he day a cool ie arrivés at yonr residencie with a tiny slip of paper - a "chit, " as :hey cali it - simply a memorandum of he amount. You get a shave at your jarber's. The same system is carried out. You purchase a newspaper or a buttonhole bouquet, a "chit" is the result. The very shoeblack does uot a.sk for coppers, but brings his bill at the end "f the; inonth.'