Just about this time people suddenly realize that Christmas is imminent and wonder what to do about it. It is an appalling thought that gifts and cards are still unbought and even worse than that is one's absolute bewilderment as to what to get for the list of family and frien The best and easiest way to solve this dilemma is to go into one of the charming gift shops here and let them help you out, It's their special they have selected their stock with you. yes, you and you and you, in mind. Take the Medhurst Gift Shop for example, Miss Markillie has some delightful cards, the Jorgensen Junk cards especially, and then many Chinese curios selected with discrimination, genuine antiques such as the Chien Lung wall vases of long ago which Vogue is now raving about very season. Don't overlook the ish Floris perfumes, bath es-ud powders, with all the dewy f-ashness of the flower just plucked—jasmine, honeysuckle. violet carnation and other fragrances Dr, Abegg was sent to the Far East by the Frankfurter "Zeitung," one of the leading provincial papers of Germany. She spent considerable time in Japan where she wrote a book on social conditions in Japan Yamato, der Sendungsglaube des Japanischen Volks," which title may be translated "Yamato: The Belief of the Japanese People in Their Mission." This has received high commendation as one of the best books dealing with this particular question In the spring of 1937 Dr. Abeg came to China and visited Peking the province of Shansi and Nanking When North China came into the limelight and German newspapers wished direct reports she returned there but came back to Shanghai when the chief interest of the conflict was focussed here, She was the only woman correspondent who succeeded in getting in touch with the "lone battalion" in the godown north of Soochow Creek on the night when Chapei was in flames. When last heard of Dr. Abegg was in Nanking and it is safe to say that she will be found where the strife is at its height.
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