The Door of Hope is sometimes wrongly spoken of as a matrimonial bureau for the rescued girls who! are sheltered there, This is not strictly true although that few Chinese would fai cognize the possibi me which the institution stands for should its Chinese name be mentioned, Is from infancy to the more mature ages find shelter in the home. They come from all classes of the social strata, though it is to gained that there are more from the very poor. 'The younger' ones are generally waifs, picked up off the streets, sometimes children of better class who have been oband: oned. the home for introducing a law that no children under 16 years of were to remain in houses of shame, some of the children come from "these deplorable surroundings, The plight of the uller scarcely needs description, Most} ad either been sold to their Jife or else forced to enter it through some other adverse circumstances,—and upon the first opportunity for escape they made their way to the receiving station of the Door of Hope in Foochow Road. Numbers' of the girls were the victims of opium smoking parents who in the clutch of this habit sold anything that they could regard as their possessions,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.