Miss Frances McGill Sailing on Long Leave he annual tea on June 4 at, the Foreign Women's Home, 708" WhashingFtoad, was to the Matron, Miss Frances Mogul, something of a farewell, for when the Empress of apan sails from' Shanghai she oes with ofer a seven months holiday "Tea as served in the dining roo with Mme, Paul Premet,. charm of the board, and Mfrs. W. B, Rigden, the" vice-chaltman, receiving " the fests, Mr. 3, BL, Hunter pouring, and. various other members of the Committee seeing that afterwards the guests wore shown over the house and given a chance to inspect the samples. of handwork offered for sale, Mrs. G. E, Marden, honorary fecrelary, handed around copies. he annual report, which this year thowed "a Credit balance of $090.73, for the year's expenditures, 01d "wore deducted from The big old-fashioned house was spotteasly clean, with windows. wide open to the garden alr and the door every bedroom invitingly ajar show how the eight occupants of the Home have arranged their pictures fud possessions, "At. present, there fare two or three beds in every room, but the Committee. is considering plan "to repartition. the. upstairs floors to give greater privacy {0 everyone. 'Several of the women, whose average age is 60, sat stitching or Teniting in the reception room, While the visitors. admired. the piles of soft baby things, "the sweaters, {oys, ten cosies, aprons, scarves, and iltarian' domestic" articles like! Gusters, ironing. board "covers, and final aprons which they" make "to help support the Home. the Shanghai shareholder started, at the annual meeting of the Shanghat Hongkew Wharf Company 17 years ago—and has progressed by leaps and bounds ever since.
Few. shareholders or company directors, beholding Mr. _Soyka's vigorous' gestures ashe comments upon some point in the balance sheet or chairman's speech, would guess that he was nearing 70 years of age. And few would guess that he has a dally gallop when most people are-abed in the early morning, and can still, he claims, swim 30 lengths of the Rowing Club bath. These are not Mr. Soyka's only reereations—"T have one other." he confided, "collecting the photographs of Shanghai company directors."
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