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CHINA'S STRENGTH

Glowing Tribute To Chinese Women

BY BRIGADIER B. MORRIS

(Veteran Salvation Army officer, coverlet for this old lady in the and Chairman of the International afternoon. She was very grateful

Relief Committee.)

The women of China have shown some remarkable qualities during the present crisis. They are not proud or haughty yet they are self-reflant: they are not highly educated, yet they display a wis- dom which shows them to be wise.

They are courageous and fearless,

even in the face of imminent dod-

ger and I have never seen them

in a panie. Some would call it tatalism, but I call it personal courage of a very high order. No women have more cause to com- plain, but rarely have I heard them complain or grumble about their lot. No women have suffer ed more than they have during the past two months, yet they quietly endure their enforced hardship.

SACRIFICE

Indeed.

PLIGHT OF MOTHERS

The Great Teacher once said, "Woe unto her that is with child"" stretch of imagination to picture It does not take" a very great

the plight which thousands of women are in to-day right here in

Shanghai. Dozens of women have barely got to the Camp before they have given birth to children One mother had only just got within the gate when she fell to the ground and gave birth to a child right out on the open feld. A screen had to be hastily thrown around her whilst Salvation Army Nurses and the Sister of

attended to her.

These

Mercy

expectant mothers are suddenly ousted from their homes without any time to make prepara- Moreover, nere have made grea- tion for the event, homeless, with- ter sacrifices. They have been out any certain habitation at a driven from their homes, in many

time when women most need Instances literally forced out and sympathy, tenderness, and care, even blown out of their homes, E twice witnessed similar ex- bringing only the barest necess!-periences during the Manchurian ties, and they have had to sacri- invasion. Thousands of old men fice their main and most impor- and women were turned out of tant belongings never to retrieve their homes. They flocked to them again. Not only have they Tientsin and its suburbs, and sacrificed material things, but nightly out on the cold earth even their men folk have been mothers gave birth to children. done to death before their very My wife. Mrs. Brigadier B. Morris. eyes. One woman in our Camp personally attended to many at for instance, saw her husband fall that time. at her side. Her zon, 18 years of age, was shot and fell in front of her. The child she was carrying

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Right here in Shangha! there is an opportunity to serve and many are responding with garments.

in her arms, was seriously wounded One foreign lady came with her by a piece of shrapnel.

husband bringing a liberal supply They have come to us in thou-of canned milk. I am sure she sands, patiently, uncomplainingly. must have enjoyed her own Sun- Their husbands, who supply the day dinner much better after that. rice bowl, have been suddenly taken from them, yet they face the phonetic script. with an en- At the Camp we have instituted the future with fortitude and rollment of 189 women, and an calm. They are wonderful women

average and the country which possesses classes of 154 daily. Women who attendance at these such women is rich indeed, and ordinarily would never have read. worthy of

co-operation: our.. Chinese women are not hypersen-short time they have been learn- are making good progress for the

sitive in delicate circumstances.

adorable babies.

20 FAGS FOR ONE ERRAND

WHY RUGBY "CALL" WAS ABOLISHED

Mr. P. H. B. Lyon Headmaster of Rugby School, discussed with me how the changes in fagging rules made this term would affect

correspondent...* the boys concerned, writes & Home

He said: "I have done away with been in operation in some houses fag-calls--a system which has for more than 100 years-because

consider

them annoying to the smaller boy.".

unnecessarily

There are, on an average, about 20 fags in each house. Until this term. If a sixth form boy wanted an errand, done he shouted "Fag!"

in

the passage, and all those within hearing would run to his study. The last one to arrive-or

on the errand. two if necessary-would be sent

Asked how sixth form boys would summon their fags. Mr. Lyon said: "They will just look around and get them, I suppose, I have left that to the discretion of each house," "

A Rugby fng said: Fagging here has always been lentent. Now it is grand," Really, all I have to do is to clean a study every

third Sunday. There is no cooking or toasting to do, as that is forbidden in studies.

"The trouble about fag calls' was that if you were a slow runner you got most of the jobs-such as going to the shop to get jam or changing, money at the bank.” Black coats and striped trousers, the former regulation every-day, wear at Rugby, have given way to grey suits, except on Sundays and special occasions. This reform was instituted by Mr. Lyon last year. but was not made compulsory till this term, so that boys might wear. out their old clothes.

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BRITISH SOLDIER AS PEACE ENVOY

REASON FOR DARK VASES

Sir W. Birdwood's View The stems

of roses should be

Field-Marshal Sir William Bird- split with a hammer before putting water and the same wood described the British soldier | them 13 the "best ambassador for peace," treatment should be applied to when he spoke at the dinner of ergeants of the Suffolk Regiment at Bury St Edmunds recently.

"I cannot feel," he said, "that ve need be drawn into war, but we see Italy and Germany, and now there is Japan, all of them causing these troubles. Any one of these might put the spark to the powder magazine."

They were, he said, proud of the type of young man joining the

any "woody" stems..

Flowers picked in full sunshine never remain fresh for long. It is

better to pick them in the evening, and then put the stems into water and leave them in a dark cool place until you are ready to arrange them in the morning.

Dark vases. such as black, or green glass, or those made of

realise that there was a very fair the light are kinder to the flowers "and good hope of employment than crystal glasses, and flowers when they left the ranks, recruit- last longer. If they are not placed ing for the Army would be better. in full light.

ARCHBISHOP'S PLATE Ing. and the thing to remember is A chalice and paten which. be- yet they retain all their womanly that they are living under condi- longed to the late Dr. Randall Army to-qay. If they were able to pottery, which hide the stems from oualities; they are proud of their tions not at all conducive to am-Davidson. Archbishop of Canter- bitions along these lines. Many bury, have been presented to the CHINA'S TRUE WEALTH would sit back and say "what's new Church of St. Columba, Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen

the use?" Not so the women of Canterbury. re- cently remarked to me that during | China, they are going ahead under her brief stay in China she had the most difficult conditions. been very much impressed with

CO-OPERATIVE SERVICE two things-the adorable babies. and the handsome old men and

Many have remarked about the cleanliness of the Camps under women, with their wonderful faces.

the direction of bur International Only wonderful women can pro-Relief Committee. duce wonderful babies. The above observations of her ladyship are very excellent. China is rich in bables and these are the trug wealth of any nation.

War is abominable when strikes innocent child victims. In one instance a mother ant in the dimly lighted matshed with her five children: Suddenly a plece

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it

Most of the

work is undertaken within the matsheds by the women them- selves. The younger are engaged in handicraft, thus increasing their income.

They are busy knitting winter garments during their enforced absence from their homes and factories. I have seen the women

of shrapnel came flying through at work in some of the hospitals the roof smashing the thigh of in this city during the last two her little girl only four years of months doing splendid service. age. It was

a ghastly wound. At the Camps the Girl Guides give Concession, and the shrapnel was long hours without any remunera- This happened here in the French every assistance. Nurses work

from a Japanese gun. This inno- tion, with a splendid self-forget- cent child will be a cripple for fulness worthy of the best tradi- Hfe, and is being cared for in the tions of the nursing profession. hospital..

Women from the schools, churches, In another instance a mother colleges and private individuals an

birth to a child and Ave

are contributing their quota at minutes later mother and newly-service. born child were blown to frag- The co-operative service is be- ments from a falling bomb.

yond all praise, and it is one of Another woman, 84 years of age, the bright spots In an otherwise had to sleep on the cold damp I sordid picture, the silver lining ground without .cover to keep her in the dark cloud. The women of She did so uncomplaining China are second to none for, ser- and quietly endured her hard lot. vice and patient endurance. They I was able through the kindness may be down, but they will never of a foreign lady to send a warm be oati

gave

warm.

LONDON HONOURS

SIR G. TRUSCOTT

Freedom Of The City"

EARL OF DERBY

Honorary Freedom Of Preston

Ald. Sir George Truscott,

Preston Town Council recently "Father of the City," who is 50 decided to confer, the honorary has been made an honorary Free-freedom of the borough upon the man of London. This honour has Earl of Derby. The presentation been conferred upon only one will probably take place in about other member of the Corporation | three months. -Viscount Wakefield, in 1935.

At the Court of Common Council "tr John Pakeman who moved the resolution that the honorary free- tom should be presented in a gold box, said Sir George had served he City for 35 years as. Commoa Council-man, Alderman, Sheriff and Lord Mayor.

Only eight honorary freemen uf Preston have so far been created. One of them was Lord Derby's father, the late Earl, who received the honour in 1902, when he was Guild Mayor.

It was also decided to make Ald. F. W. F. Matthew, a former Mayor, an hon. freeman.

The Chief Commoner, Mr. E. H Anning, seconded, and the Lord Mayor, Bir. George Broadbridge, is men of his fine character' who supporting the proposal,' said: | sweeten public life and make it HAlderman Sir George Truscott is i pleasant and easier

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a typical representative of the Sir George Truscott succeeded splendid "traditions of public lifeta father, Sir Francis, as Alder- and of the high standards of man of Dowgate ward in 1895, and honour, duty and integrity, and it was Lord Mayor in 1908.

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