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HOSPITAL'S ROMANTIC HISTORY. CAMPAIGN FOR NEW BUILDING LAUNCHED.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MAY 11th, 1929.

Thirty-five babies,, recent arrivals at the Margaret Willamson Hospital, are shown in the picture. They are children of both well-to-do Chinese and those not so well-to-do, It they all receive the same loving care and attention.

Hospitals atik medical work a friend of the late Mrs. Lambuth,[from an approved college or have generally have become as essen-Bishop Lambuth's wife. It was had two year collegiate work ta tial in mur civilization that any throuch Mrs. Lambuth that she her credit in addition to an ap This legitimate appeal to suport an berame interested in Dr. Reifsny-proved high school course, organization of that description is, fer's work and thanks to the genis demanded' in 'opsier 15 keep üz Hale of a generous responu, odly and encouragement these the necessary standard,

with this assurance Find the two women were aisle to overcame Fortunately the hospital pro Governing Board of the Margaret a utilide of, silßendlies ineiperty consists of 21 rusw of land Williamsoa Hospital in Shanghai Butaj - ko starting work in that there is plenty of room for is launching a campaign for Pls. trange country, 700,000 to be used, in entjunction with Tis. 125,000, which is being raised in Amerion, for, the ere tion of a gew building in place of the present worn-out structure.

From this shall dispensary pros whence. Dr. Britanyder first dispensed rastor oil, quchine, etc., the work has grown to a 200 bed hospital; from two workers to Math of a doctors; nurses and istante,

Seamstress Gifts,

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Expansion, and several building have been donated, such as out, door clinics, and durmitories for use and medical students, the greater part of the cast of which afhas ren borne by the - Women's Briad of the Methodist Episcopal 4hurch (South). But the main building, the centre of the work, Is the one which is seriously exer-

The present hospital, which is making its first appeal to the Shanghai community, wie milt 4 years ago.. It has done gatul work, but is no longer adequate The reports seuf home felling feising the thoughts of the das tons, for the demand made upon it, the girl, for a hospital and it is! be rebuilt at all enats as. Part of the structure his adrealy equipment had effort and the sub-Towing to its age and antiquate 1 · been condenmed by a construes sequent history of the work is in-1

imagination and tional-engineer, and as the mid-teresting. The

ing has no adequate water-supply. ympathy of a par seamstress in 19 heating apparatus, and no m New York City were so complete- dern sanitation, and has unhealthy ly arranged that she gave from her dark rooms and office to makejmeagre, savings toward, establisis- and The necessary.repairs would be, soling a hospital, for women expert opinion maintains, a way johildren in Shaperiai. She never of money.

isted China, nor say the hos foital which bears her name--Mar- Has Interesting History,

Cart Williamem but only three The history at the hospital T verka aro a niece of begs passed an interesting who, in 1981 tw trough an a world tour and spont American women, Dr. Reitsnyder one or two hours at The hospital. fi- good to knew that this same Muckerlnie, ourse and Mig members of the Woman's P'nior Manaret Williamson, in spite of Missionary Switty, came to China, he apparently reckless use of her o medral work. When applyinni avings, Eed u rmparatively

En bent aut, Dr. Reit nylon althy wom, and to the last only 21, apprayed. [etained great interest in the hos who was young and untried that The Society, otal, contributing very generous- dehntered. by unanswerable rely toward its upkeep. ply Eas been handed davn from In 1929 a School De Nursing? one peteration of werkers in the!

was dabi shed

in conexion mission field to another, Tin with the hospital, and may a will reetily lat."

highly qualified nurse has finish- Misa Markerlnie was the firs4j od her Quger years' course in prze feained purse to conie to Chine Viral nursing before going further on definito mission'work, and lodi caftell. The need for highly train- she and Dr. Heifany for wedded, a doctors has long been recogniz- down in a tan-room house in. Shejed in China, and four years, apo j Chinese City to which Chinembe Médical College for women was! women crowded when they learn- funded, to which the former me-i éd Ust medical help was always dical school staff and students inj

maisratvil. A student unstiutingly given. This house Stachow was lent by a Chinese lady, who wishing too enter this college must i in still living, Mrs, Wong Faktas,jave either a bachelor's ""degree;

"BE YOURSELF.”

Sinclair Lewis' Latest Novel.

"PODSWORTH" FEATURES.

Street was still there, but that it had two sides. And that the Bab bitt of Zenith was perkaps no worse or better than the Babbitt of Vicuna or Naples; that around the corner from Babbit's mansion was another estate where lived people who essentially belong to the year 1929-people who need merely to cut a few wisdom teeth, in an international sense, to get" along pretty well anywhere.

Sinclair Lewis has discovered the other side of Main Street,

And so Lewis has added to his But he came upou it by a eir study of peoples and places a book" eatous route. I was neesanry about an automobile millionaire lo cross the Atlantic and wander by the name of "Dodsworth"-a through the rilag salons of Low-book which is likely to attract don and Parts; it was necegmary. to meet all surtsand condtions of

bhore attention than anything

European peoples and Anterien Lewis has done to date. tourists abroad; it was negessary

For Lewis has raised a. large to find these expatriated Ameri❘ number of points, and started a cans who, from their points of vast number of arguments in this European vantage, aneer at their { work--iuost of them well barbed homeland and apologize for it; it for the army of poseurs which was pressary to make a king pil- l'America has been producing. grimage through the highways i and byways of must of the other Main Streets of the world.

Babbitts All Alike. And when this was done, Low: returned and found that Main

style and total lack of all those things which make for efficiency 19-day, it is fast approaching the fal stages of its usefulness.

1 Million Treated. During the past year as many as 36,961 out-patients were treat- el and 379 admitted into the wards as in-patients. Since the hospital was established in 1981 it has maintained, a continuors. vies for women and children ud over one and a half millions. have received treatment."

A kreat ded of examination work is carried on amongst school children in Shanghai by the Pub, 7, Te Health Department run in con- ! nexion with the Hospital, and it is interesting to note that, in a seegnt »xamination of the Children in one of the wealthier schools 815 pupils out of 795 were suffer ing from some form of eye trouble,d-

A group of medical students at world in the laboratory belonging to the medical college attached to the Margaret Williamson Hospital. These students follow an intensive

training for five years before receiving their degrees,

"Be" Yourself," Ifis Advice.

So one of the outstanding ad- monitions of Lewis becames

"Be yourself!".... If that self is interesting, honest, kindly and worth while you'll not need 10 blush for it in any part of the world..... Don't four-flush and make yourself ridiculous.... For-

get the self-consciousness which neqbirg NO many Americans abroad."

Well, at any rate, "Dodsworlit" learned all about theur things-

Fr

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

HISTORIC

PEKING: II.

The beautiful camel-back bridge in the Summer Palace

at Peking. It is made entirely of marble.

continental experience.

what passed for culture, and be- came'a climber and a "yes man" for led circles. She was quick

An American Aunlysis, There are other points of con-; trast as between author and chur-to accept the theory that the Euro pean male knew more about ro- meler.

mance and love than the busy The remaking of Dodsworth,|Americans—all of which was per- generally speaking, is as typically feetly all right until she netuinlly an American analysis as anything prepared to marry one of them, Lewis has done heretofore.

and then she found that she would Dodsworth lives in Zenith. But have to toe the mark, bow to cen- he has more backstround than Bab-turies of tradition and get over Was Leo bit. Like so many American bust-eing spoiled. Which

as Lewis did. And there is going Chess men, Dodsworth has reached much for her.

Meanwhile Dogsworth found, to he a lot of conjecture about his late fifties and finds himself

work. He is tolling fur instance, that a Britisher or how much of this book is auto- ja lave to

Faway toward his grave, building a Pranckman comit criticize Ameri- Liographical.

fortune without ever having had ca for having troops in Nicara- For instance.... Sinclair Lowly,

wife is much gun, but that the á play life.

very heavens upon returning to America, immer younger, and hoing of modern vin- fell. If one dared mention the diately bought a farm in Vermont tage foules and-nets even younger French in the Rif or in the Con- and spoke at "returning to Ex

than she is. She has been liter-go. He found that an American ¡land," And Dodsworth, upon

journeying through Italy, found ally, starving for a chance to be was supprised to swallow the neen- that one of the greatest factors: Ray and sense life and chotional sation of being the world's great- in achieving a solid foundation escape. They decide to go to money rubber-whereas he was the traditional love of the Europe.

ail. The American farmer, die recaling, was urban-mindest and

moved to the cities whenever as

sible.

Then, too, Lewis divorced hial wife and was remarried to a writer

found the business figures of France and Londan quite as 'nvit, Calls Women Pampered. One by one, Dodsworth, learns He met the expatriate youngsters the following lessons: American from the middle wet, sitting about the Dome and the Select women get away with murder" and he thought them rather tragic when contrasted with European their failure. And, finally, he They are the world's best treated found that, cut loose fran his wife, be met in Austria, making a cara creatures. They do the sort and Laugh lessons in self-wostr

Dodsworth things his wife, “Frán," did. Andance and simplieitý by a woman has left his wife at the end of the Mrs, "Fran" Dodsworth, white, be- of the world, that he was able to bank and is going back to a wing fond of her husband, decided fee among some of the very best man who has been mellowed and that his salon manners were bad. made broad-visioned by a long She was too easily impressed by!

van trek thereafter.

EASTERTIDE ON THE SURREY HILLS.

people."

Left Selfish Wife,

Thus, through a woman of the world, did Dodsworth learn his own value and when he again met his selfish, self-centred wife, he couldn't stand it. He needed, as most men need, the confidence and respect of their women-Rome- thing more than superficiality, and some definite bond of understandi ¡ing.

"Dodsworth" is a book that' will cause a lot of comment!

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