It will be with great regret that her many friends and old pupils will read of the death of Sister Marie de St. Josephine, more generally known as "Sister Josephine", which occurred at the Convent Infirm ary in Rue Montauban, on Mon-afternoon, after a short illness. Sister Josephine, before she entered the order of the Helpers of the Holy Souls, was a Miss Catherine Jane Teresa Douglas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick A. Douglas of Oakland, California. Entering the order 36 years ago when she was. 23 years of age, Sister Josephine was attached to the Convent school of which she rose to be head mistress, a position which she occupied for many years right up to her death.
In her capacity as a teacher she had care of many children who are now grown up and well known in Shanghai and in other parts of China. Gifted with all the attributes of a good teacher, she combined a firmness and a lovable disposition which have endeared her to at least two generations of children, while by her fellows in the order she was held in the greatest esteem and respect. When the news of her precarious condition was communicated to the girls at the school and to the boys of St. Xavier's School a profound sensation was created ers were offered for her recovery, and when her own pupils learned that they would see her no more they were considerably and visibly distressed. It seems hard for those who knew and loved her to tell in what lay her particular charm, though one, perhaps, did so best of all in the brief epitaph "she was s0 good."
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