A Christmas Project Which Deserves Support It is the practice of the Rotary Club of Shanghai to make a collection among its members once a year for the purpose of giving the children of the poorer classes in our city a treat at Christmas time.
In this way many fatherless, motherless, sick, crippled, or otherwise needy girls and boys are provided with a real Christmas meal, followed by the presentation of small useful gifts, so that they may feel that they are not entirely overlooked and forgotten at the season of rejoicing and good-will.
This year the Rotary Charity international obligations. Committee is planning to do better than ever before by adding to the useful gifts some real toys. But] new toys are expensive things, it}to Singapore with their eldest costs a lot of money even to buy al daughter. Miss Bessie Y. C. Li, few. And so the scheme is to gather together from" the nurseries and play-rooms of the well-to-do. homes of Shanghai as.many old, delapidated, no-longer-wanted toys as possible, and to have these repaired and re-painted, so that they again looks and are, as good as new.
The work of renovation has been undertaken by a Rotarian, who not
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