There was a large attendance 'a the rooms of the British Women's Association, last Wednesday, when the annual genieral_meeting of the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Associations was held. Mrs, Carletoa Lacy presiding.
Mrs. J. S. Whitney, in an account of the wone accomplished or attempted during the past year, mentioned that when the Joint Committee held its annual Club Institute, taking for its object the study of housing conditions im Shanghai, Mrs, Hartwell Johnstone, who was a guest, approved it s0 highly and spoke of it so enthusiastic ally when in Peking, that the club there wrote for information in the hope of having a Peking-Tientsio Institute. Since returning home, Mrs. Johnstone had written that she might to form something like the Joint Committee in Washington.
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