The third anniversary of the opening of the Rescue Home was held on the premises Seward Road on Monday, the 2Ist st. at 3 p.m. In addition to the inmates of the Home and the members of the Committee of Management, a considerable number of visitors, both foreign and Chinese, were preset. The exercises consisted of a report made by the Indy in charge, Miss Bonnell, and remarks by members of the committee and friends, interspersed with prayers and hymns, some of which were sung by different classes of the pupils in the school that is carried on in connection with the Home.
The report for the year, as given by Miss Bonnell, showed that at the beginning of the year there were 27 girls in the Home, and that 36 have been received since the Ist of January, making a total of 63 that have been in the Home during the year. Of this number sx have been married, all of them to Christian men; five have been sent to different ion schools; four have returned to their relatives after staying a short time in the Home; four were taken back by their husbands from whom they had been separated; and one has died; making a total of 21 who have left during the year, leaving 42 now in the Home.
The means for the support of the Home have been contributed by friends jAmeriea, Europe, and Chins, and while {there has been no stated fund to draw from, the money has come, in a marvellous manner, sufficient for all their needs. The expenses of the Home now amount to about §400 Mex. per month, and the work is growing. More room is already nooilud. When the Home was first opeued, three years ago, only afew girls wore admitted, and the house then secured was quite ample. Since then, a second house has been rented, and the total rent paid on these two houses is $80 per month. But these two are already practically full, and, with the number of applicants continually increasing, another house will have to be secured. It is the hope of the ladies of the Committee of Management that fands for the purchase of land and the erection of suitable buildings may be cured in the near future.
The need is great. Hundreds of women and girls are living a life of shame in these settlements who might be saved if there was a place where they might be received and taken care of.
A number of the leading Chinese gentlemen of the Settlements have undertaken to open Receiving Home for girls who may be able to escape from the clutches of the men and women that hold them in durance vile. These gentlemen have made themselves responsible for sufficient funds to rent a house in the region of the Foochow Road and carry on such a Receiving Home, which is to be under the management of the ladies in charge of the Rescue Home. It is hoped that this Rec Home may soon be opened, and it is expected that many girls will, by this means, be saved from a life of shame that otherwise could not escape from their enptivity.
As above stated, a school is carried on in connection with the Home where all the inmates are required to study, some for half the day, some for all the day. Those who study half the day devote the other half to industrial work—ombroi-\dery, sewing, and so forth. Just at present they have received a large order \from the Red Cross Society to prepare 'a great quantity of bandages, and other things for the use of the wound a sol-in Manchuria, Much of the work the Home is being sold, and considerable income is being received for its support.
Miss Bonnell told a touching story of how, when she was one day passing along the street near the West Gate, she saw in carriage n young girl who called her by name and waved her hand to her. The girl evidently knew Miss Bonnell and Miss Bonnell was sure that she was callling to her for help, but the old woman who had charge of the girl in the carriage, called to the driver to whip up his horse and drive off as fast as he could, at the same time roughly ordering the girl to cease her outcries. Miss Bonnell urged her ricsha man to hurry and try to ov take the carriage. But the carriage went
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