Manifold Attractions in Szechuen Road The bazaar held by the Chinese Ladies Famine Relief Association at the Chinese Y. M. C. A. at 120 Szechuen Road. included such enthralling attractions as a baby show, Chinese theatricals, pugilism, exhibition dancing, attractive sales, and games of chance.
Madame Sheng Kung-pao was the very active chairman of the association and she was ably aided by her three daughters and by many Chinese women, each of whom had a particular booth or attraction in her charge. Tea was served in the main rooms which are at the top of the Y. M. C. A. entrance stairs and from the tea room, the guest was led back through an assembly hall in which a Chinese play was being enacted, with an exclusively feminine cast, into another large room where the baby show was held and the arsenal band of General Ho Feng-ling was playing Here there were booths containing various things—cigarettes and cigars, ladies' bags, perfumes, candies, laces and embroideries. At one table samples of food upon which the famine sufferers are living, was shown, and on the same table you could look at many different photographs which have been taken in the famine area of starve ing men, women and children.
T. P. Zih was at a table filled with ingenious Chinese toys, Mrs. K. T. Ouang. wife of the Chinese Minister to Mexico, was in charge of the game of throwing rings for prizes. Mrs. T. V. Liu presided over the fruit table, Miss D. G. Zau over the Chinese embroideries, while Mrs. C. G. Hoh and Mrs. Abel Tong were in charge of a booth exhibiting some wonderful curios and old vases. 7 A concert was held in the evening under the direction of Miss Z. Y. Wang and this included harp, piano, and guitar, besides a vocal solo and a_ special ventriloquist act. Mr. S. ©. Lee produced some magic and the evening was closed by a Y. M. C. A. Dramatic Association play.
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