Besides exhibiting her pictures, Miss Douglass has been lecturing throughout America, She has such love for China, such respect for its ancient civilization and culture, that she is content to tell her audiences about the old customs, the old China, and by showing' the beauty ind worth of these old things she hopes to build up a better under~ standing of the new China, an under. standing which is sadly needed in. America and everywhere to-day. Her lectures have been in. museum Jand art institutes and again before private groups, and often in schools Jor before Y.W.C.A. classes, I had the pleasure and privilege hearing Miss Douglass lecture the other evening Chicago and it occurred me that to omen of her type are actually doing more to bring about a better understanding of East and West than learned bodies and weighty tomes. Miss Douglass talks the marriage and funeral customs, the pimple life of the country people, the sacred traditions that surround ancestor worship, the beauty and worth of Confucianism; fand she illustrates her talks with lantern slides which she has eolourherself ard which are remark ably beautiful.
While Miss Douglass i§ in China she will, besides gathering new material' for ures, write a book, fa task which she has been commis-ioned to de by a well known New York publishing house, Mr. Leslie Urquhart, the chair man of the Russo-Asiatic Consoli-Jdated, Ld. the company with the largest individual claim against the Soviet Government, left Waterloo on Maret 1¢, with a party of British fengincers, for New York ex route for South America, where he is to view several mining concessions. "While we are still waiting and hoyfing for a satisfactory agreement th Rustia," said Mr, Urgubart, our mining engineers and our organizations must not. remain idle, but must seek new avenues over" iteas for the expansion of cur trade and "finance."
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