Shanghai workmen are busy laying the foundation of a large brick building, a girl's school designed to accommodate at least one hundred boarders, Atkinson and Dallas are the architects, and we understand the school is the gift of the Old Dominion Star. to the Southern Methodist Mission. The dormitories and class-rooms are to be furnished in Western style; and every department will be thoroughly equipped -with the best approved modern appliances, The opening of this school will mark a new era in the history of Huchon, whose daughters hitherto have been compelled to sock the educational advantages it offers away from home.
Holidays, Most of the foreigners have gone to Mokanshan, and the fow remaining find the heat somewhat trying. The water, supply too is limited, vegetables are searce, and in Chinese houses the cooles shadiest corners, accessible to thermomotors only, or things equally insensible, register ninety-eight in the oarly morning, making life anything but a pleasant mid-summer dream.
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