May 16.
HE annual Club Institute Day, which is open to all members of Clubs represented in the Joint Committee of Shanghai Women's Organizations, was held yesterday at the new Parish House of Community Church on Avenue Petai There were delegates from the American Association of Univer ity Women, American Women's Club, Associacao das Senhoras Portugueses, British Women's Association, Chinese Women's Club, Danube Countries! Women's Associ ion, International Branch Y.W.C.A.
King's Daughters' Societ, Polish Women's Association, Russian Women's League, Scandinavian Women's Association, Shanghai ¥, W.C.A. Tiffin Club and several French representatives.
'After the registration of 9 am, ars. H. J, Van Hengel, Chigirman of the Joint' Committee, "bid everyone welcome and then Mrs. Arnord Jones declared the 13th Annual Club Institute open. Mrs. Adam Black, st Vice Chairman of the Joint Commi tee, presided over the' morning ses-on. The programme of the day was "Hobbies" and the first item was a talk on. "Hobbles" by Mrs. Arnold Jones, Chairman of the BwW.A. Mrs Arnold Jones touched the subject in 'a humourous vein and mentioned that there were three kinds of hobbies, creative, instructive and merely. peculiar, giving a few exomaples of the peculiar sues: the man who col-leets bits of string to add to an ever growing ball: the collecting of hotel towels—a slightly more useful hobby, oot spoons: the training of perform= ing fleas. and of going to sales. Mrs, Ammold Jones said that her small brother used to collect garden worms In order to study: their habits, "Some people have birds as a hobby, but Fou usually ind that, seneone' else has to clean the cages." But In spite fof the peculiar and Inconvenient hobbles, Mrs. Arnold Jones wi mitted that many were very instructive and concluded by saying that a hobby adds Interest to life and we should all have hobbies,
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