Severiteen small babies are looking forward to Santa Claus visiting The Cradle, Shanghai's own foreign nursery, and they are not going to be disappointed. The volunteer girl workers of The Cradle will attend to the decoration of a tree for them. The Rotary Club is going to see that there are plenty of toys for the babies, one and al This will be The Cradle's third Christmas celebration, and a happy dá for its small occupants is being planhed.
The story of The Cradle, which is quite wëll known by now, runs briefly as follows: Over two years ago several inspired Shanghai young ladies started a nursery for needy foreign babies tinder two. The reason for the two age limit was that there is a home here for babies over two. but there had been no place that cared for the very young. The Cradle opened its doors io give these small ones a good home, with proper food, medical attention and a decent start in life.
The Cradle's beginning was a very timid and inauspicious one, but the enthusiasm of the volunteer workers and the financial help of interested people made it possible for The Cradle to expand quickly. Now seventeen babies are cared for, the youngest of whom is three weeks old, the eldest just two.
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