There are now 38 poor girls in the Chichow Girls' Home, which used to be at Mili. They are some of them without any homes to go back to, some without parents, some with parents who smoke opium or gamble, and would gladly sell them. Some have cruel step-parents. Everyone of them is really pitiable.
The Home is now without funds. We are doing our very best, teaching the girls not only ordinary lessons, but also how to make hairnets and to do plain and fancy needlework, if they are big enough. But most of the girls are too little for this work. For the bigger ones we recently tried to get a contract for them to make clothes for the clothes shops; but we could not consent to the terms offered. Knowing We were a charitable. institution the shopkeepers tried to make profit out of us by offering two-fifths of the ordinary market price for such work.
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