At the present moment, when a reawakened social interest has brought the fate of Russian women in the Far East in general and in Shanghai in particular into the limelight once more, it is especially timely to remind readers of the useful activity which is inconspicuously and quiet; y carried on by the Russian Women's Hostel.
This institution, founded just twenty months ago with the idea of helping those Russian women and girls who either come to Shanghai, having no friends, no job and no money, or are getting so little that they can hardly make both ends meet, has proved a real haven of salvation for them. By the possibilities it offers they are saved from making debts, which would sooner or later create for them an intolerable financial position and also from the ever-present danger of taking "the easiest way", which is especially serious in Shanghai.
On the other hand the Hostel ensures, for many women and girls without specialty or profession, comfortable existence during the difficult period when they are acquiring some useful knowledge, enabling them to earn their living in future. The close contact established between the Hostel and the Ecole Professionelle Francaise proves very useful in this respect, as the inmates of the Hostel are entitled to scholarships, being second only to the former students of the Ecole Remi.
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