So averse are they from advertise.
anything but the needs of those they tend and shelter, that few Shanghai can have realised that this year the Lite Sisters of the Poor, commemorated the thirtieth anniver-Sary of their arrival in China." The Sisters, with their quiet requests for susistance to their cause, have long. been familiar visitors in many offices. So devo! their work. that few can refuse them. An outline of their activities here," with a. short sum. mary of the history of their order, Dublished elsewhere in this issue Twenty-three sisters are cating for 320 aged and poverty-stricken Chinese in the home in the native city. Te is against the rules of the order fo accept endowments or bequests and this good work Is supported by the Sisters' own begging. Founded Brittany in 1839 by two peasant women, the order has spread until it embraces nearly every country. 1t international character can hardly be better illustrated than here in this international city, where the members of the order are' French, Belgian, English, Scottish, Irish, Australian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Chinese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.