Our correspondent 'Z's' contribution of 810 for the Shantung Road Hospital has produced another ten and it is to be hoped will bring in yet more for an institution which needs, no less than thoroughly deserves, support. We are well aware of the competition of war funds, from which many local charities are suffering. But we feel sure that, without prejudice to the funds, something can spared for the Shantung Road Hospital at least. If everyone who, being now a resident, has ever sent a Chinese servant to the hospital were to subscribe $10 a year to it there would probably be no dete at all. Ordinarily it is to be fea ed people forget the hospital's existence till the need of it arises; and while most people then pay more than the ridiculously small sum charged, such contributions are too casual to be of much help. We would also specially urge readers to press the hospital's necessities on their Chinese acquaintance is and collect money from them as Mr. and Mrs. E. ©. Pearce have ple in doing. There is no institution in Shanghai which has a greater claim on well-to-do Chinese, who are certainly anything but uncharitable when they a preciate a want. But at the same time foreigners must not forget what they, too, owe to the hospital as a constant help to the housekeeper distracted by the thought of illness in her kitchen.
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