Mrs,' Strawn shake in tion of her welcome to China, say. ing it had long been her dream to visit the Orient, but that in her wildest fancies she had never dared imagine being met by a Chinese brass band dressed in periwinkle blue trimmed with bright orange and topped with caps bouring horsehair plumes. With such a happy reception her eagerness to learn ax much as possible about China ard the Chinese was augmented, She congratulated Shanghai women upon the up-to-date Settlement. which they were living and. said that their opportuniticn were being envied by women at Home, as the attention of the United States was now focussed upon China. She said that the U, S, Government felt that the question of China was of especial importance, und" that China's prosperity affected the whole world, as all countries were closely related nowadays.
Mrs. M. F. Perkins, introduced as one of the Club's former Vice-Presidents, said that she still wished to be considered as a member of the club, and that during the three years they had—been absent in Washington she had been able to keep 1m close touch with events the Far East. Her interest in Pleasures and problems had never waned, she said, so that she was able to sympathize with her small son, born in China, who, on beii.g told that he was ' going back to exclaimed: "Isn't that levee going back to my ni
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