Shaohsing Girls' Production The girls of the American Baptist Mission Boarding School in this city gave a play in aid of the suf-forers of the famine districts of N.
China, on Tuesday evening. The play was their own production, based on a book describing famine conditions in the North. The staging represented the interior of the home of an upper class family. There was the father reading the newspaper, the mother busy with her needle work and three happy quarrelsome children, a son and two daughters. "The boarding, school fees at which they attended were raised owing to the increased cost of food and finally closed, altogether and the pupils sent home. Gradually the family resources are exhausted, the family! pride sacrificed and consent given to the children to peddle on the streets. This scene was made most realistic by the actors coming among the audience to sell small packets of peanuts. After a further struggle they are reduced to begging and the audience respond-red by showering coin on the plat-for. At length hopeless despair settles down on the once prosperous family and they are compelled to sell their children one by one. They received only 20 cents for the son and 10 cents for each of the two daughters from a wealthy merchant who steeled his heart against charity until visited in a dream by an angel with a drawn sword. The whole play was most realistic and pathetic. The production was a credit to the girls and worthy of a larger audience, but rain kept many away. The acts were inter-sparsed with Chinese and English songs.
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