The Archive · 1936

Physical Improvement

Recognizing the need of a strong mind in_a strong body, the physical side of education is not overlooke their humble homes, or sitting by the roadside begging, naturally become weak In body. 'Their physical condition has to be built up when they fenter the schoo! before they can make much progress in literary of Industrial pursuits, Good food and exercise do wonders for them, and many people of Shanghai have' seen them doing excellent work with dumb-bells, in drills or in the Pyramid building for which they ore great pleasure to th tess, mot because he has more arent ability, but because he has more time and opportunity, more solitude and greater lone line moke him give himself more wholly to its charms. It is the only aesthetic art open to ihe blind. Sometimes it becomes a means of self-support. The pulls at the Institution for the Blind are given as thorough an education help abilities and the funds permit. They ha organs, one piano, a victrola, a fife and drum corps a stringed orchestra. Only recently th School for the firat time became th proud possessor of a good radi Strange that no one thought, before what a rare boon that would be to those who can hear but cannot Visitors Welcomed These are some of the activities of the School, briefly outlined. Noth-ug has been said about the domestic training, but the students live in cottages and are taught to do the necessary housework, To really apreeiate the institittion and what it is doing under the devoted direction of 'Me. and Mrs, George Fryer, one must visit the place and see it for oneself, Make up your mind that on the first pleasant Sunday afternoon, you will or take the bus, of hike out jao Road as far as the Municipal Nurseries and visit Shanghai's In= stitution for the Chinese Blind, You will receive a hearty welcome, and return to call Mrs. C, Pearson Grant, chairman of the Tag Day Committee, and ask how you can help to make the day an unqualified success It may be by selling tags, by fur rushing refreshments or dispensing en and cakes to the workers, at the centres or by putting a real conteibue tion into the Tag Day box, Tue National Beonomie public health experiment. bureau {o train, 100,000 persons to spread the Knowledge of public health among women and children in China, Train= ing centres will be in Nanking, Shanghai and Peiping and all mid: wives in the country will be registered und asked to ce-operate in the ccampalgn.

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