Miss Viola Smith will be the speaker for the evening on the occa sion of the Business Girls Dinner which takes place to-morrow at. the Homeside Tifin Club. Miss Smith will take as her subject; "The Place of Employed Women in the World "To-day." and this will be bound to bean interesting nd'ress. Making a guess, one would believe me Place of woman to-day, be che employed or not, is everywhere, for she seems to meet with few barriers to liber progress. In Shanghai, the only place which is barred to her is per hhaps the Shanghai Club. Unhappily tthe present time, many employable girls and women are wishing that their places were In some suit= able employment, for the necessary, cutting in staffs which has taken place number of firms hero has dealt hard blow upon business women.
The dinner to-morrow night will be the ninth of its kind, and it is an} annual affair which is'always largely attended and greatly enjoyed. Miss Jeanne Perkins of the Y.W.C.A, who Dra, OF. Hardman is, the newly-Ghoten" Ciairman" of ules Brit women patients. The reason fox this, lof course, may have been that those working women who had to retire! from business on account of ilt health idid not come this way, but went to the free infirmaries and hospitals.
Miss Margaret Bondileld certainly Jseems to be one example which would indicate that ard work is not bad for a woman's health. A recent}
Jannouncement from London is to the effect that che has only just retired from her official posts in the Trades Unions after 42 years of service. Ste fs not now giving up active life for she is to contest Reading in the Tt will be recalled that she is the sister of the late Dr. Bondfield who lived in Shanghai for so many years, and the aunt of Mrs. Henman, one-lime headmistress of the Cathedral School for Girls and of Mr. Harry, Bondfield, formerly on the staff of Messrs, Probst Hanbury.
Miss Margaret Bondfield was the rst woman to become a Cabinet Minister, and was Parliamentary, Secretary to the Ministry of Labour in 1924,
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