Glad September descended upon us in no very friendly fashion and for a day or two showed us what she could reali do in the way of damp heat sur"; but we are not perturbed for v ow that the best is yet to be se as weather conditions are xed, Thoughts of many are armi. towards Autumn routine; schools w:'! open, and the dancing classes wi! commence. In Shanghai at present there is little we can give our children in the way of healthy relaxation, and so the opening of dancing schools will be greeted with joy by many parents as well as by their young. The Bateman-King School of Dancing will reopen on September 17 and their a tractively decorated studio is situated at 999 Bubbling Well Road (behind the Y¥.W.C.A.), and pupils will be interested to learn thy a dressing room has been added studio. Miss King will be the studio every day from 10 pax. noon, and from 2'p.m. to 5 p.m. from September 12, for enrolments and interviews well presented at home and apparently a successful speaker in her cause was the Rev. G. K, Chang, chaplain to Trinity College, Foochow, who has been lecturing at several schools at home. We read in one public school magazine "Mr. Chang described a few of the troubles of the Chinese at the present time, and told us how the Christians in China, led by Madame Chiang-Kai-shek, are helping to relieve suffering besides carrying out their ordinary missionary work. He also told us of the various religions in China, the most widely spread being Confucianism. After the lecture he took evensong in the school chapel, was then entertained to tea by members of Form VI and Upper V to whom he showed photographs of his family, and explained the structure of Chinese writing.
"We all fell that this was one of the most interesting lectures we have ever had,"
So the Chinese situation is being well presented"at home, and receiving full publicity.
Former Residents Union Church members, and the many friends of Rev. and Mrs. H. G. Newsham will have been interested Forty years ago tomorrow Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands was "inaugurated." and on September 6 of the same wear she became a reigning monarch. She succeeded to the throne in 1890, but her mother; the Queen Dowager Emma, acted congratulations s regent during her will be sincerely off respected nation obs
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