Interesting Display Organized by Rotarians at the Chinese Adhering to the supposition that cultivating a hobby serves the same purpose in keeping one young as cultivating a garden, the Rotary Club of Shanghai sponsored an. International Hobby Show last day and Saturday in the Y.M.C.A, Boy's Building, 120 Szechuen Road, Hobbies of all sorts were in evidence, many exhibited by older folk with a view to encouraging boys and girls formulating their ideas about a "side-line" to follow and numerous particularly interest ing hobbies of younger folk were displayed, Among the latter exhibits may b+ mentioned that of the Thomas Hanbury's School for Boys with carpentry work ang a number of extremely well done paintings and drawings, The woodwork showed up well in the exhibit as indicating practical application of special trai ing to a hobby. Equally versatile was the exhibit of the Institution for Chinese Blind which included [wicker furniture in great variety, homespun and woven materi quilts, and children of kindergarten, age were represented in coloured Paper ornaments and lanterns. Youthful Japanese and Chinese artists were represented in several handsome scrolls and painting and clever water colour and oil paintings were shown by school children lof other nationalities, More strictly representing hobbies were ornaments in sealing wax, stamps, coins, cigar bands, sea shells, snake skins, eggs, butterflies, ship and junk models and pressed flowers, Among the most interesting of the exhibit was that of Mr, W. Lee whose Chinese coin collection ranges from B. C. 70 to A. D. 23 and includes devil's head money, knife coins, px coins and the earliest forms of one-half tael pieces as well as the more recent silver coins struck during the various preside cies of China, The display of carved bamboo fans and arm-rests by My, C.F. King proved another teresting collection and a fine exhibit of fish in special aquaria made Janother interesting point of the show.
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