To-morrow the King's Daughtexs' Society will make its annual appeal by means of Tag selling for support in the work which it has carried on so long in Shanghai. To those who consider that the Tag Day system has been rather over-worked here, it must in fairness be said that the King's Daughters' Society was almost the first in the field with that particular form of collection. During the course of the week the Society has made a gesture of sympathy for those who prefer to make their charity able distributions by other means than the exchange of a coin or a note for a flag at the hand of an energetic but temporary decorator of the streets. So the issue of the Immunity Bows in purple and silver has been attempted. This opportunity has been taken by a number of ud each day the receives additional in order that the purple and silver bows may be presented.
It remains to be seen whether the stimulus which this extra collection affords will produce from the tag sellers a larger amount than ever. That, naturally, is the hope of' the Society, for the tag sellers must be firmly convinced of the superior drawing power of their method of invoking charity and it is safe to assume that to-rive on behalf of the Daughters' Society will be of particularly relentless character. This will create the proper spirit of defeatism in the minds of all who are not decorated with the purple and silver bows, and hasty but complete surrender to the tag sellers and the necessary relinquishment of substantial amounts will follow. To conclude with a more serious note, it should be observed that the King's Daughters' Society fulfils very important functions in, the social organisation of Shanghai, It has been in existence for over forty years. Its work is based on the ideals of service. It makes no distinction of nationality, and that is a point which should be noted by some who believe that the great assistance which it gives to distressed P! Russians in Shanghai indicates definite restriction in the Society's work. In point of fact, the Society extends its help to all foreigners who are deserving of assistance and who require such assistance. The close touch which it keeps with the Charity Organisation. Society ensures discriminating' distribution of money and other forms of help.
Children, either orphans or of poor parents, are special objects of the care of the Society. This can be well judged from the fa: that its milk bill alone is $300 'a month,. It endeavours to assist in the education of poor children, and many a child in Shanghai has been started on the road to success in life by the careful and wish support which the So has been able to give at a cri time. The Society is emphatically not composed of women who merely take up charitable work a8 a useful social ornament, Nor does it allow excessive sentiment to rule its conduct. A practical, businesslike examination of each case is allied to that human sympathy without which social organisation can possibly work and prosper. It is to be hoped, therefore, that in spite of the many calls on their purse and the financial disabilities which the community. generally must be suffering at the present time there will be a firm and strong response to the appeal which the Society is making tomorrow. In the meantime, the anti-taggers must quickly arrange to send in their cent tions to-day to 1, Seward Road, if they wish to flaunt their silver and purple bows with complete immunity.
Lanour situations in Shanghai have improved during the last, several days. According to a report issued by the Settlement police authorities, there are no strikes in the three districts.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.