1941-04-19 — Page 7

Second Section

Hongkong Telegraph.

Magazine Features

SATURDAY, APRIL 19, 1941.

1.--The raw material for the rope made arc

the leaves of the wild pineapplo, which grows in abundance on Lappa.. Tho children above are poeling off the leaves and cutting them into strips, which are then soaked in water for a week to softon them, as at feft.

These pictures show one branch of the activities at the Silver Stream Camp, on Lappa Island, near Macao, where the Canton Young Women's Christian Association is caring for 140 children, 65 mothers and 19 old people, all refugees of war from nearby Chung- shan and. from San Tso Island, which is now a Japanese air base.

The children are given education and trained in various économic pursuits.. Ropa-making is a small but thriving industry. Besides this, the children learn carpentry, basket-making and other crafts and also raise poultry and pigs and vegetables,

· For the work that they do, the children- are given paper token, money, which they deposit in a camp bank and with which they are free to purchase what they need in clothes, books, candy, toys and other things.

The water in the vicinity is clear and pure, and this contributes to the quality of the rope manufactured, which is sold in large quantities to the fishermen, near the district;/

-When the strips are well children squeeze out the

the strips, as sa

SILVER STREAM CAMP

3. After the strips are dry, the women take up the work, piocing the fibres together and twisting them. The upper semi- ́circle shows a woman putting the fibres together, and the lower shows ether women: beginning the final part of the process by imparting a soft, twist.

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