American servicemen in Shanghai fon Sunday entered in high good rumour snd""boundess enthusiasm [Into "the spirit of "the. celebrations steanged for them bythe American community to mark this. year's Snlversary of Mother's Day in way that have now become traditional in {the United States and. in-all parte the world where eltzens of th 'The observance of this day has been growing in popularity " since 1907 when "Miss Anna Jervis Philadelphia staried a local movement In honour of the mothers of the' nation's manhood and set 1p an ideal Which soon gripped the imagination of whole country. 'Though separated "from Home' and their mothers in the United States by some fifteen thousand miles and more, Marines in Shenghai" were cordially united in a bond of aympathy in the festivities and hospitality offered by their own nationals here.
'Marines' Church Service 'The Fourth U.S. Marines attended the Marines service in' the Grand Theatre In the morning when Chaplain M. M, Witherspoon, speaking on the theme of the day, "Mothers and Sons," chose the ap: propriate text of "the -unfelgned faith which dwelt frst in thy grand mother Lois, and thy mother Bunlee, and I am persuaded, in thee also," as the Apostle 'Paul once wrote to his beloved 'Timothy, Tu the course of the service, Mrs, R. E. 'Selfridge the Night" and "Songs Taught Me," and the Shanghai American Girls' and Boys Glee Clubs both took part assiste by the Marine Quarto
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