The annual report and accounts of the Shanghai Branch of the International Order of the Kings Daughters' Society for 1937 is just to hand.
Miss M. Jansen points out in her report that the year under review has been the most eventful in all the 46 years of the Society's existence, and as one reads the accounts of the various circles and committees, one is given a complete history of the social ramifications which were consequent upon our unhappy upsets since August 14 of last year Much of the work done by the Society has had mention, and Shanghai people are well aware of the good done by it, but one is astounded, on noting the comparatively short list of members, to realize that so much is achieved by a mere handful Certainly the present abundance of help available does not seem to have reduced the standard of wages at all for there never were times when house-servants were so highly paid. "True the cost of living for Chinese is high, but so it is for foreigners, and few house-boys seem to have had the cuts in pay which their foreign masters have experienced.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.