T have lately made a visit to the Shantung Province 1st Model High School for Girls, which is established under Government control on the northwest side of the city, fact in rather a confined position between the city wall and the canal. The buildings are all of the ordinary Chinese type and looked rather dark and dingy. The floors are of brick and the and without maps any kind. The compound is divided into courts, the inner occupied by the dormitories, each room targe enough for four beds, in which the girls in residence are accommodate ed. There are quite a large number of day pupils, but those who are boarders come from all parte of the province and even from other provinces. The girls are required to pay for their board a sum amounting to between three and four Mexican dollars per head per month.
The training given is in the expectation that the girls will become teachers in girls' schools elsewhere. There are six male and seven female teachers, all of whom are Chinese, no foreigner being at present employed. They "cannot afford it," we were told. There are at present over 210 pupils in attendance and they all looked well clothed and well cared for.
Many of the pupils wear trous-variety
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