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dress, Just imagine my ndt know-I don't know Doma's € ading dear Dora's address. Can you imagine that, dear Mr. Editor? Dear Dora and I were such friends, oh really such friends and just imagine, I have lost sight of. her since we had a little tif about a mutual friend, Yes, boy friend, And just imagine my seeing dear Dora's name signed to a perfect specimen of a letter, So like dear Dora—every line speaks of her. Well, just me my coming across her like this, That is what I mean if you know what I mean, Imagine my not seeing or hearing of Dora for weeks and missing all the exciting news and my looking for her high and low and then, just imagine, finding her, I mean, in the "N.C.-
VCIDN. is—I mean, really, man. what a paper the And will you please pass on this to dear Dora and tell her mot to be silly, Just imagine, I am not interested in him (I mean the boy friend above mentioned) any more. I mean, there are plenty of pebbles on the beach dear Dora for you and for me. And just imagine that I heard the other day—I mean, I really.carnot put that into this paper but, if you will ring'me up (my Wer) and we can arrange a quiet hone number is the same as it was,
little talk in the lounge of the Palatial Hotel, you will hear things, mean, which even you could not gine, Just imagine that, Smrtv Sally.
Shanghai, Apr, 30, Thanks for Reminder To he Editor of the "Nomrr-CHINA Dany News"
£.\Sm—Reading Dump Dora's letter fu your issue of reminded me of my duty to help with the furnish: ing of the new S.S.P.C.A, Headquarters. As I have no spare furniture to give, I am "sending the Society a donation instead.
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D. D. Shanghai, Apr. 30.
Another Donation To the Editor of the ."Nonm-Emma Dany News"
Sm.—Aíter reading Durrie Doras loiter, I feel that I would like to send the enclosed donation towards furnishing the new, quarters of the
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not be accommodated in the Girls' School Myburgh Road is, I agree, scarcely salubrious, but the Union Jack Club's building is only about 500 yards down it, and all the boys' class-Tooms are well above the street—in fact, they look down ai the roofs of the buildings opposite. I don't know who are the "stick in the muds" referred to by Parent, but all the anonymous correspondents appear to ignore the very serious legal difficulties which "have to be surmounted before amalgamation is possible, even if anyone could fine or (still better!) provide adequate accommodation for both Schools. If Parent forms a Parents' Committee, I will gladly give them all information I can.
ANOTHER" Parent refers to the "exceedingly high fees." The average fees for a Cathedral Schoo} at home are about £10 per term (say about $750)—no Jess than three times as much as the Cathedral School (H.LE) charges even now; so I really do not feel that there is much to complain about on this score, provided, of course, that the education given here is of a "home-side" standard; it is, ANOTHER PARENT speaks of "the present Committee," as if there were only one Committee; a mistake surprisingly common even now. The two Schools are entirely separate institutions, with quite distinct governing bodies; further, the Boys' School receives far the greater part of its income from the Henry Lester Endowment and this under Certain specified conditions which cannot be ignored of, will.
But it is the Mormz or Gms who causes me to write this, as she writes:—"1 sincerely hope that... the heads will be big enough to get to-
A some arrange-dividuals referred to are in no position to do any such thing; nor would "the staff of the said schools" be able to affect the issue. All this, is a matter for the two governing bodies concerned, and I am perfectly sure that if they were approached (but not anonymously). they would give every consideration to any proposal put, before them; as, incidentally, they always have done. For my part, I would gladly give any information I could to any parent or io a Parents Committee; and, if I may say so, I think it would be better to verify the situation before discussing it publicly; had this'been done, the recent correspondence would have been differently worded, Finally, may I deprecate any such remarks as "the board of management "++++d0 not realize the difficulties of those parents....."? There are two such boards, not one, and, speaking from first-hand and very full know-I entirely repudiate this further, I feel it is a poor return to make to two groups of extremely busy and public-spirited men, who have to face not only the difficulties of the parents, but also the difüculties of the respective Schools.
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