The American Women's Club held {ts first meeting of the new year on January 7, in the comfortable: jelub room at 113 Bubbling Well Road. This meeting was in charge of the Civie Department of the Club, fand proved to be one of the best) attended and most interesting.
Mrs. P. D. Gain, who is well-known in Shanghai for her charming soprano voice, sang "The Blackbird Sony "Lullaby," "Dream," and "I Know Where I'm. Goi The first address of the programme was that of Mrs. F. Cleveland, wife of Dr. Cleveland of the Kemmerer Commission, who spoke of the charitable work of the Women's Municipal League of Boston. Mrs. Cleveland is a member of the Executive Board of the League, and has also been at various! times chairman of several departments. She emphasized the close relationship of the home and the: municipal government of " city like Boston, showing that the co-opera tion of a city's government is needed in order to achieve improvement in home conditions. The Municipal League. in its efforts for better housing conditions, worked through three mediums: the settlement houses, the schools, and the homes. All of its work was done by members and volunteer workers which numbered over one thousand.
'The second address, "Some Municipal and Community Chal-longes," was delivered by Miss Eleanor Hinder, who has recently' returned from' the Kyoto Conference, where she was one of the Australian delegates. Miss Hinder, who has attended four international conferences in the Pacific; two Pacific Science Conferences in Australia, Pan-Pacific Women's Conference Honolulu, and the Institute of Pacific Relations, in Kyoto, spoke of those experiences in the light of their having: increased the value of the opportunities to which she, as a resident of Shanghai, has access. These advantages, that of interna. tional contacts, of intellectual stimulation by travel and residence in Shanghai, and of living in the "Far East," are available to every resident of Shanghai who is alert enough, to seize them,
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