To the Editor of the Nonrn-Cuaxa Dany News!
Sin—I_ was asked out to tiffs with some very old friends. yester= day. in 1927 1 remember going to visit che ladies in the Door of Hope. They were then attempting to house their large family in an alley. off Avenue Foch. Yesterday I found them in a commodious Chinese house in-No. 20 Robison Road. My friends had prepared a Chinese meal which we all partook of with relish and then J was taken to see the It now consists of more than hundred girls and women, rescued from fuch surroundings as may be guessed at but need not be described, Remembering the pit from—which these women have been drawn 1 was amazed at the happiness manifest in their faces. Those who have, in past days contributed to the Door of Hope may be satisfied that their sitts have been well and prudently Qdministered and have purchased Uberty and self respect to many who, through no fault of their own, were cast into a maelstrom of vice.
They ore housed. in comfortable rooms and one has the pleasant sensation of being in a home rather than in on institution. We visited the bedrooms, "kitchen, store rooms and bathing quarters.' The inmates. take it in turn to bathe and wash their clothes which are hung to dry Ju a spacious courtyard, We also saw the workroom where we saw the girls at work. They are first taught to make shoe soles of native cloth and when proficient. are advanced to the stage where they can cut and make their own clothes. But the piece de resistance was the embroidery room. There women who have been long in the home ply their needles under expert, guidance. The material they work. on is stretched on a frame and is never even touched with their hands.
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