Road widening is indeed badly neveled as practically all our streets are very narrow, so that when one meets a wheelbarrow—still the common freight vehicle here—he forced to cling to the wall while the barrowman manceuvres his load past, All replacements of buildings or walls now call for a setback so that in several places our streets are beginning to show the signs of sunlight und are a little more spacious. The occasional motor car penetrating the city finds its cruising largely limited to the one wide road which runs just {inside the wall on one side of the city. The many motor buses which are doing an ever expanding business from operate wholly outside the city wall so that one must go their to embark on his journey, The foreign community has suffered a loss recently in the departure of Dr. J. C. Thoroughman and family. Dr. Throughman, former head of the department of surgery at the Stephen son Memoric! H'spital here, has been named successor to the late Dr. John A. Snell, superintendent of the Soochow Hospital, who died of pneumonia a month ago. 'The Thorough-mans' going leaves us with only two foreign families in addition to several single foreign workers in this city of 90,000 people and they will be missed in'many ways by both foreigners and Chinese, Saturday the Soochow Hospital held the eleventh graduation exercises in the Nursing School. Mrs. Victoria Yen, president of the N.A.C. was the "guest speaker and delivered the diplomas. A small but interested group attended this fu tion. The following received certi-feates of graduation from the school and also the N. A. C. diploma: Misses Wang Be-yui, Loh" Yin-tsz, Lame, Wang Cha-tsung, and Wang Zeng-chab.
Also the Boy Scouts of Soochow held a. three-day rally _commencing on Friday and closing on Sunday afternoon, This programme was well executed and 700 Boy Scouts ud Girls Guides took part. Quite a ticeable improvement was in evidence. The boys' uniforms were matched and the bearing of the group was in Keeping with: the spirit of scouting.
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