Interesting Exhibition of Work The closing exercises of the Tieh Hwa School for Destitute Boys and Girls were held at the school hall, 275 Rue Ratard last Tuesday after noon. The pupils, some 206, their parents, the faculty of the schoo] and a few foreign friends made up a large audience which enjoyed the comprehensive programme, showing the work of this admirable institution in all its phases.
Mr. C. M. Bain, Chairman of the School Committee, was present and addressed the students, encouraging them to continue diligent. in their studies in order that they might fit themselves for positions of trust and_ responsibility. He also presented the principal of the school, Mrs. G. H. Swain (better known by those interested in her work as Miss Grace Luke) with $50 to. be used in buying gifts for the scholars.
Songs, recitations, drill and dia-logness in both English and Chinese, demonstrations of work in history, reading, arithmetic, drawing, tha phonetic alphabet, speeches by teachers and~visitors, and the distribution of certificates made up a practical and interesting programme, concluded by taking a photograph of the group and serving tea.
A representative display of the pupils' work, both in English and Chinese script, and examples of drawing, cut work and weaving work was exhibited, which together with examination papers and report cards made up a showing of which any school might well be proud.
American General to Visit Shanghai General Hartigan will arrives it Shanghai' to-day on the Empress of Asia from Manila. He will spend a few days here with his son. Myr. Leonard Hartigan, and will then' proceed to Washington.
During the Great War General Hartigan commanded a_ brigade. At the U.S. Military Academy he was a schoolmate of General Pershing and General Wright (who recently passed through Shanghai), In the Philippines he was Chairman of the Republican Party and Was also President of the American and Filipino Bar Associations.
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