A cable states that the Chinese in Shanghai are greatly perturbed at the appearance of Venus in the skies at three p.m. They regard this as a grave portent.

The Chinese are an old, old race,
   In mystic lore exceeding wise.
Accustomed thro' the year to trace
   Their nation's fortunes in the skies.

No mere male deity can shake
   Their stolid and celestial calm.
Saturn nor Jupiter can wake
   Their fear or cause the slightest qualm.

But now in trembling fear they go,
   Such is their knowledge of the stars.
When Venus threatens well they know
   She's far more dangerous than Mars.

"Den"
Sun, 21 July 1927, p7