It would be an education and a real pleasure for Shanghai school-children to have a friend-ship whose visit they could look forward to. Here at least they have an advantage over a great many children in other lands ín being citizens of one of the biggest ports in the world. Contact with their ship would not have to be by correspondence only—they could greet her in person when she arrived and bid her godspeed when she set out again, This contact with a wider world would help to broaden the minds of many Shanghai youngsters who, in these days at any rate, have small chance in any near future of making the journey "home." To talk with men who journey up and down the world, to see their treasures, to be able to offer them in return little friendlinesses and hospitalities, would be an outlet for the child's love of romance and adventure which Shang-jet childhood greatly lacks.
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