The Archive · 1938

Business Girls' Dinner

Miss Viola Smith, will be the speaker for the evening on the occasion of the Business Girls' Dinner which takes place to-morrow at the Homeside Tiffin Club. Miss Smith will take as her subject: "The Place ed Women in the World and this will be bound to be an interesting address, Making a bold guess, one would believe the place of woman to-day, be she emved or not, is everywhere, for she to meet with few barriers to her progress, In Shanghai, the only place which is barred to her is po haps the Shanghai Club. Unhappily at the present time, many employable girls and women are wishing that their places were in some ssu able employment, for the necessary cutting in staffs which has taken place in a number of firms here has dealt a hard blow upon busine: women.

The dinner t. morrow: night will be the ninth of its kind, and it is an annual affair which is always largely attended and greatly enjoyed. Miss Jeanne Perkins of the Y.W.C.A., who mot long ago returned to Shanghai from home leave, will read greetings from the Business Girls' Councils throughout the world. cee

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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