Thus @ good start was made and a few years later the industrial secretary of the Shanghai Y.M.C.A.
able to report that there were 24 families living in the Pootunt Model Village with a total population of 88. The center had become 2 "town and county" ¥.M.C.A, its in" fluence radiating helpfully through-ut all Pootung. The educational programme in the village included a primary. school for children with fu enrollment of 53 boys and itis.
evening school for men with an enrollment of 69, and a similar one for women with' 138 in attendance—many more than were residing in the village itself.
In addition, open-air classes wore being held for rickshaw coolies while waiting at their station for business. 'The names of the streets and famous' places were printed on pieces of cardboard, so that they could learn to read these characters and know the important points of Pootuny better. On Saturdays a gathering wes held for children, of whom there were thousands running wild in Pootung while their parents worked it the factories. At this Saturday get-together they were taught singing. tought {0 recognize characters mest commonly used. to keep hands and faces clean, to play games, and were entertained by stories which had the objective of arousing their ambition to be good and useful.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.