The Archive · 1938

A Summer Ball

Th order to raise funds for thole many charitable responsibilities. the Russian Women's League will spon-Sora summes ball fo be held at Arcadia Ballroom on June 3. This can annual fae and I i the that the 1038 function. shall offer mention organizing. commit Miss Sharp Leaves It would appear that that objec tionable term "mopping up" which we.-so often encounter these days might be applied to our social clearances as well as the military ones, for the epidemic of general evacuation seems to have spread even to inhabitants we had thought most rooted to ur sell, NE.DN. Photograph has' Geen dninatiation tu shang Miss Sharp, whose Sehoot of Dane! for thirty: "years. "This, well-known Fesldent it teaving' shortly for England where she intends to make her nature Rome. the ". Wsas hes arranged. farewell tea 6 at which we are all painfully familiar. Unhappily, it was revealed that treatment for our mental patients suffers from lack of proper. clinics for dealing with such cases. and lack of funds to provide any. It is, however, heartening to know that there fare folk Tiere who are anxious to take up this extra burden and work inthe interests of the mentally 'amided. Many women here are engaged professionally in attending to it, but after hearing of some of the cases which are deal with, one would conclude that it would need a super-woman to undertake this as life work. In the past one has associated women with the more decorative affairs of life but there can be nothing very decorative in a background supplied by the mentally and physically diseased. One would think that the—ministering angels who engage in this type of work would need to fold their wings et times from contaminating fluences but apparently they do not think about wings and rewards, they just -get on with the job of work. see

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