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Show - 33 - given by the Kindergarten teacher with demonstration by eight of the Kindergarten kiddies brought over eighty together, which was just about as many as the three available rooms at the ladies house would hold using floor space and all. Mr. Leete's phonogragh has furnished no end of enjoyment to them as the different groups gathered. Hand and hand with the lectures has been the monthly pamphlet for women which, thanks to Mr. Pye and his mimeograph and some of the Chinese teachers has been gotten out for the enlightenment of the neglected portion here. Mrs. Clark's Visit And last but not least among the events of importance during the past year has been the visit of Mrs. and Miss Clark of Chicago. In spite of a severe cold Mrs. Clark entered into all planned for her here with enthusiasm. There was a dinner in the girls' school at which they received all their nourishment by means of chopsticks, and managed them beautifully, and that same night the boys entertained them with a most graphic representation of the life of Jacob from the mess of pottage on, after which came songs and speeches and refreshments. We were especially glad that Mrs. Clark could be here at this time and see the woman's school and hear about our plans for the future work. As I have said above, the present quarters are already outgrown, and if the most effective work is to be done and if the school is to grow at all we must have new quarters The present site has little room to enlarge and since the new Industrial work which has been started by Mrs, Watson this year must have permanent quarters it has been suggested that the present plant be used for that and that we build new, south of the girl's school. Mrs Watson has already secured $500 gold (the original cost of the present plant) to turn in on the new building and it now remains to raise the $3,000 which we want, to make an adequate building, for the women's work. In this we want to plan for one large room which can be used for lectures and teas, with the hope that in time many of the city women can bs reached in that way. Then there must be a nursery for the kiddies under Kindergarten age so that the mother of four may come to the school and be profited thereby; teachers rooms, recitation rooms, dormitory rooms, a kitchen and dining room complete the plan which is in the form of a hollow square. Perhaps the day will come when a. school for <zuomen will have no place because all the girls will have had their chance but just now that golden age is still so far in the future that it seems safe to make an investment for such a building. Little by little the leaven is spreading, and gradually the abundant life is going to take the place of the scanty existence which has been the lot of the Chinese woman. |