'The Shanghai Branch of the King's Daughters' Society find themselves: in great need of fina tell support. Just to give you a rough idea of the heavy expenses they have to meet.. their ace counts up to date reveal an. onditure of well over twenty the Sand dollars for this year. How ate hey to get money to. meet these expenses and carry onthe good work they are doing amongst. the poor? They might, for instance, Send letters of appeal to certain People; or ask them in person for money. These people might either refuse, of, what is more Likely, give more than they could really afford.
So the King's Daughters' decided to hold a Tag Day. In this way the hole public has an opportunity. to help, and the burden does not fall on a few individuals, "You are mot expected to give much, Times are hard and pockets have suffered ae-cordingly. But twenty cents even 'q dollar, will surely. make ttle difference to your banking a count, Every little helps, and if everybody gives a little, they" will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are greatly helping a good cause, You might remember. the words of the motto of the King's Daughers' Society:
expect to pass through this world but once; if therefore, there any kindness 1 can show any fellow-being, let me do it now; let imo mot defer it or neglect it, for I may not pass this way What has Shanghai been up io?
This is q curious beginning to the cold weather season. Everyone is making plans of course, 1 suppo: swe shall be dancing, chattering ie afternoons at one or other of the Clubs, "going on somewhere afterwards," as vaguely putin hurried hit or the staccato telephone Jmessage—yes the telephone is im-|fi proving—but at present such Thoughts are hardly real. Those of tus who have list come back are Wondering what Shanghai has been Doing in our absence.
For there is not, one upheavals where seem to. be lots. The talk buzzes on gold, an, apparently very ross vote. Japan's misdoings in Manchuria, Mr. Hoover's need for recalling. "Colonel and. Mr. Linde Dorgh to cheer America up, flood }—Fellef fonds and all that, Friends who wear His Majesty's uniform fave always cheerful. Their cheeriess at the moment induces them to ask the intriguing question when ther' they' are ruined." Their "pay has been cut, their income tax raised land their sterling reduced—that how they put it, Others say that ruin will be the fashionable wear this season, Talking of fashions a cynic inquires why it is that, with the advent of the bowler, so many women. /now go to the Cinema in hats. That. is a conundrum which may be safely left to Mr. Gallagher or Mr. Shean, So you see, at the tea table we are quite in the movement, It is whispered that some women at all events bless Japan. They are among the delegates to the Institute lof Pacific Relations which was to have been held at Hangchow. The Jconference has now been brushed aside by the Nippon menace. The delights of Shanghai will not interrupted for the more aesthetic but less comfortable glamour of Hangchow, Wanted—Male Voices!
The amateur dramatic societies jate bravely preparing.
The task of furing male voices into the chorus lof "The Arcadians" is said to be troubling Mrs. Jory.
She is sure to ye it; there are plenty of hands who are, I hear, holding quiet committee meetings at suitably inspiring spots for the purpose of Jdeciding whether they shall give their voices a run again. Hesitation is ascribed to the pressing calls lof business. Mrs. Jory will be glad Jof the tip perhaps, although, for Jobviows reasons, she may find it ime ult to attend the committee meetings personally. It is so em barrassing to address a group with Its elbows on a mahogany pedestal, backs to a glass or glasses and its heels on a brass rail. little company in latour Dramatic Society is briskly rehearsing for its production in December. The in English and is a trans-of one of the Chinese classics. A friend who attended a rehearsal believes that Tt is managing to get Shakespearean note into the trans lution and to retain, in the produetion, some of the characteristic Chinese symbolic dances. One member of the Society is an old gentle man of over sixty. He does a most graceful dance in the approved Chinese stage fashion. Some charming Chinese ladies well-known in, Shang-are shawing, too, amateur actresses they are likely to be successes.
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