Prevention is better than Onre the motto of a branch of the World' Loyal Temperance Legion recently formed in Shanghai. On October 1, a garden-party was given by Mra. Csnning, at 197 Bubbling Well Road. About eighty people were present ands very enjoyable afternoon was spent, at the doge of which a band of young people, ranging in age from seven to twenty-four enrolled their names as member This was followed on the 1 1th instant by an entertainment held in Union Charch Lecture Hall, when the object and organization of the movement were explained to a large room fal of people. Practical Temperance demonstrations were given, in the form of a Recitation by seven young people, each of whom impertonaied some organ of the haman body, and also by pretty Action-Song Called Lamp Signals."
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