This is likewise a time when the "National Child Welfare needs all its resources and helpers, and the Ca munity Church Welfare is looking afler the nursery in Route Dufour where they have babies, (Chinese lost infants), from a few weeks to two-years-old. Mrs. A. N. Young, the chairman has had numerous helpers. Mrs. C. L. Boynton and Mrs. Mc-Cracken have been prominent as have also many of the returned foreign refugees who are now living at the American School These ladies knit and sew for the needy and collect clothing and food for the destitute in their care. You have read in full of this work before, but keep it in mind. They likewise provide the Lester Hospital with bandages and hospital equipment and with this group is amalgamated the A.A. U.W., the A.W.C., and outside friends who are not attached to any Jocal tressed foreigners in Shanghai oí the smaller countries. British and Americans can get into touch with their authorities here, but members of the small European states are not helped in this way. This is a time when, in our charitable activities, we must endeavour to embrace all needy nationals. the fine lines of a half-circle hanging from a wire, which passes round and over the ear to give balance.
Brooches are greatly worn with the moulded bodices which fasten down the front, round, important jewelled brooches. Paton shows stars, with jewel-ended rays between, on many such dresses. Brace-
All Shoulders to the Wheel 1 might conclude by saying that, in spite of our Shanghai reputation for flippancy our former social leaaers are putting their shoulders to the wheel of valiant endeavour in a most laudable manner for the mills of distress are in danger now of grinding those who formerly never thought to feel their painful contact. We cannot exactly do the plough-share and pruning hook stunt, for cocktail shakers cannot be beaten lets seem strangely out of this pic. ture of elaborated ear-rings and Edwardian brooches. They are still heavy, even chunky in look to add an extra look of slenderness and frability to the wrist, based on the designs of Indian princesses, Belt buckles are again being designed as sets with clips or brooches. Gold cupids, masks, animal shapes, or leaf shapes make either side of the matching clasp on petersham or velvet belts, into anything useful for present needs, and hostess gowns are mot adaptable for hospital or household aprons, but for the present we are entirely discarding those adjuncts of social life and are doing our bit in that state of life in which our charity organizations have called us.
We may have lived our little lives te the full one way or another always in this burg, but, believe me, Christabel, if this conflict goes on much longer some of us will find ourselves in "the predicament of the late Oscar Wilde—of dying beyond cur means!
In the meantime, if you are not obliged to come back you are just as well where you are. Many serious-minded men still believe that women are better out of Shanghai for yet a little longer. With the best of everything to you.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.