On account of our many disturbances the usual spring efflux among residents began early this year, and for one reason or another home-going boats have been well laden.
It has been with the greatest regret that the fellow workers and many friends of Miss Ruth Benedict have heard that she must, in the interests of her health, leave China for good. She is at present suffering from chest trouble and left Shanghai at the end of January for Manila, hoping that the change would effect good results. Apparently she has not progressed so well as was hoped, and doctors have Miss Ruth Benedict, a passenger last week by the Empress of Japan en route for her home in Arizona, had been for many years on the stay of the "North-China Daily News." She wrote usually under the pseudonym of "Martha," and was guide, philosopher and friend to feminine readers on all to-do with shopping and where to buy to the best advantage.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.