Thoughts By One Of Them On A Proposed "Hostel"
With what ave really ite encouraging ing pace ith tne one of he worl, the question of appeared within the port yeped up. The latest xp: week In correspondence to the ly News," and as or ads the logical questions asked why Shany does not do something without more delay after its tin one is inclined 9 agree.
Or, at least, that is how it strikes one at first. Bat 1 am working git and as such, am able to voice at, Tenat'a little fraction of the working girl's attitude in Shanghai about the need for. a women's building. Perhaps I'am a pessimist; pethape my attitude is a detriment £0 progress and perhaps in spite of myself I all be carried along on the rushing! tide of advancing woman-kind. But] the knowledge that the time has come in Shanghat for a "Women's Building" has power to start a panic Shanghai, then is getting to be just like every other place in the World. Is. there no. place in. the World' safe for the poor working gin?) know it is a anctilege peak this thought. I know that we should all be gratified that this interest is taken in our welfare, But T'know, too, that what some of us were lared to the Far East by is symbolized as slipping from—our grasp in all this talk about the need for a Women's Building in this cosmopolitan place.
The Power of Femininity they do innumerable advantages which no boarding house could be expected to offer the "up and coming" young business woman "on liber own" in Shanghai are far more costly' thin the house, They are limited, to a certain class of wag And that brings one to the question of the "classes" im Shanghai in respect of the salaries earned and money spent in the countless ways {for spending money here. A master-feat of ce-ordination and tolerance would have to be accomplished in a_ successful women's building. But I do not doubt for 'a moment that this feat could be, "if the women of Shanghai decided once and for all that the thing would get done. "One points to the international group of women working with a definite constructive programme, the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's " Organizations, and the ramour is more than a Tumour that this body, has included the question of an" international clubhouse on its list, "of future decisions. Shanghai will come to it, and successfully, one day, 'Just suppose that the women of Shanghai, leisured ard working' alike, joined together and said, "Let tus have a monster campaign to rai money for a place for working girls to live" I do not doubt that concentrated feminine thusiasm and energy would the required results. Femininity, when it gets started, is, we all admit, redoubtable, and though Shanghai pleads poverty at the present time, do not think it could withstand the onslaught of their campaign. A. handsome building in Bubbling Well Road shows that campaigns in a general way are very, very successful if enthusiasts control the springs.
Well, supposing that it was sil Wonderfully organized, organizers, with their members to,
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