The work of the Shanghai Woman's Club is going on actively this year and-although' they are meeting only once a month, on the last Monday, they are cooperating with so many other organizations that two or three extra meetings during a month are not unusual. They were one of the organizations which invited Mrs.
Thompson Seton to speak before them on the woman's rights movement throughout the world and they joined in the recent union meeting to protest against the exclusion of Chinese girls from the indemnity scholarships.
At their regular meetings a lecture is usually given on some subject of special interest to women, their last meeting being addressed by Mr. Wang Tsun'z-bin on "Chinese Laws Affecting Women." Tea and a social hour precede the business meeting. The Social Service Department is continuing its support and supervision of. the schools for poorer Chinese children living in the factory districts, and this year a fourth school has been added to the © number. The graduates of the Christian colleges of Shanghai are furnishing the funds for its maintenance, but asked the Club to take charge of ib While the club has a large membership the average attendance at its meetings is not large, due, so one of the leaders said, to the fact that the club idea is so very novel to Chinese women. They have been accustomed to receiving their relatives at home, or visiting in turn, playing games and drinking tea. That women should gather by themselves in a club room is an innovation which appeals to them as abstractly admirable but personally undesirable unless some point in which they are vitally interested is to be taken under consideration.
They elect officers in. whom they have confidence and leave the management of the club to them even more than do their western sisters. However the club leave is working and in time the whole membership will be active partners in the work of the organization.
The present officers are: Mrs. T. K. Siao, President; Mrs. George CE. Hsu and Miss Zung Wei-Tsung, Vice-Presidents: Mrs. K. H. Chen, Corresponding Secretary: Mrs. C. H. Wang, Recording Secretary Miss Lucy Sung, Treasurer: Mrs. 'T. T. Wang, Chairman of Social Service Department.
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