Shenghai hw long been considered, by the young women who been bone ouch mat fern am eapecielty pood 1 thee! and het arrived fo Rid &' position without difentty.
This has been proven time after time. These clever young ladies equipped with the invulnerable Passport of independence, and with a dexrve for competence at stenography und typing or in other of the numerous professions, come to Shanghai, take a position, stay for awhile, enjoy the life of ease with Chinese tailors and amahs dancing attendenee and then set sail for other ports of call, on their way around the world. Sometimes they come as perfect strangers, and should they be in this position they very likely will drift into the Employment Bureau connected with the Foreign ¥. W. C. A, there to be met by Miss Charlotte Neely who Jistens to their problems and finds them a job."
Times have, however, changed. China has been falling " little out of favour, even with the more adventuresome of the clan. Statistics fat the employment agency show this to be true most decidedly. The last four months particularly have ena paucity of this kind of lobe-trotter." Letters still arrive from them, expressing concern at the way things have turned out to interfere with Independence' legitimate pursuits, and these letters, are answered' with tactfully worded—liscouragement, towards making the trip. "Don't leave a good job at home (home being generally England or America) to come to Shanghai at the present time."
Should Miss Neely cure to go into truther details it would read something like this. always been more than the dem: in Shanghai. Tt has come to my notice that there ave two kinds of people being let out' at the prespecialists in their work. for the discouragement,
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