Upwards of 20 different nationally ties were represented at the sixth annual banquet of the Business end Professional Women and Girls. of Shanghai, held at the American Women's Club last Wednescay night, while similar affairs, sponsored by the International Business Girls' Couneit, were taking place in cities all over the world, Miss Lucy Dalder, acting Chairman in the absence of Miss Barbara Rich, received the girls and a delicious buffet supper was served.
Mra, S. P. Huang, the Council's Chinese representative, read. telegrams of greeting from other cities and countries. 'These Included messages from Singapore, Manila, Australia, the United States end many cities' in Chine, Miss Eleanor Hinder, who inspired the first of these dinners six years ago, and has faithfully attended every one since, was next called upon. to make her "godmother" speech, She Unked past festivities with the present one in a and extended a sincere welcome all present, with a special word for the quests of honour, Mrs, Florence Ayscough, Mrs. Alice 'Tisdale Hober' Miss Catherine Ball and Mrs, Elsie Hylbert, Chairman of the International Branch of the Poreign ¥.W.c-A, Mrs, Hobart's Speech, Probably the most eagerly anttcipated item on the programme was the informal telic on the profession of writing by Mrs. Hobart, herself the author of several books on China. Rapidly sketching the economic bac) ground which has led young Americans to feel themselves unwanted, Mrs, Hobart sounded an optimistic note when she declared that it ts through situations of this sort that the world moves forward. When professions are crowded, then It is that those with foresight' and initiative search for new fields of endeavour and 40 develop themselves into plonsaid, adding that this is! especially true in China where the earl with a constructive outlook may develop folds of women's activity as exploited here. rum this point, Mrs, jerly led her listener' story of her own personal experiences which she was asked to recount reiterating with convincing power, the thought that a hopeless attitude non-productive, while a determined. effort, coupled with courage, 1s. definite' in its creative prospects.
"There is no profession more overcrowded than the writer's profession she pointed out, "and yet there is always opportunity for" the special book." Drawing on her own rich author, whose most 'Oil for the Lamps of China', dilated on the handicap to be overcome, by any aspirant to. literary fame, "Ninety per cent. of the "manuscripts submitted never reach the point of decision before an editorial bord," she revealed, "and the remaining ten per cent, only one. per cent. is published, out' of which must come the unique book selected be featured."
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