Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23

pensaries They are treating more than
100000 out-patients each year. and this
is in addition to the 35,O0O-odd in the
hospitals proper. Every we'll equipped
mission station has it's dispensary and
hospital, and the people are brought in
for miles around. great deal of work
is done by woman doctors. who have
been educated for the purpose in the
United States. Moreover, medical colleges
for teaching native women have lately
been opened, and In time China will have
its own female physicians.
A new influence which has recently
come into Asia is our Young Mems Chris
tian Association. 1t is already one of
the live forces Of this part Of the world.
and is doing wonders along educational
and other lines. 1t has now a firm foot
hold in Japan. where the Toxic branch
has a magnificent building with some
thousand members At Seoul a big
modern structure has been put up by
John Wanamaker, and the society is the
most popular young mems club of the
Korean capital, while here at Shanghai
the institution building has, with its lot,
cost something like 100000. and is as
fully equipped as the average Y. NJ. c. A.
of the United States.
The Shanghai building is lighted by
electricity and heated by hot water. 1t
has large classrooms. with American
desks. lecture rooms and club parlors; 1t
has modern gymnasium and up-tO date
bathrooms. When I visited the gym
nasium today found score of Chinese
young men working away under physi-
cal trainer. and the yellow-skinned fell
boys of our colleges.
This Shanghai institution has lecture
hall which seats 700: 1t has we'll pat
ronfzed reading room. with Chinese and
foreign papers and periodicals, and also
a billiard room. which attracts the bet
ter class of Chinese young men. The
schoolrooms, which, when the building
was opened. were supposed to be large
enough for the next ten years, were
taxed to their utmost capacity before
the first year was ended, and they are
now occupied from morning until late at
night. About 400 students are being pre-
pared for college at tuition of $12 per
year. and there are also classes for Chi
nese college graduates. There are even
ing classes for boys and men. Type
writing is taught and stenographc secre-
tarieS are made.
This Shanghai Association is supported
by the natives: and this is true of nearly
all the Y NJ. G.. AS in the empire There
is a large association in Picking, another
in Tientsin and others in Canton, SUI
chow, HangchoW. Hankow and else
where. There are over seventy-five con-
nected with the colleges and other
schools of China. and branches are start
ing in all of the great business centers
The merchants and literati are inter-
ested In the y M. c. A. movement. There
are 800 business men and scholars of
note who belong to the Shanghai institu-
ton. and each of these pays $50 a wear
toward its support. This gives it an In
come from that source alone Of $4,000
per annum, and the regular tuition fees
bring in considerable. The awakening of
China is creating great demand for
Chinese who can speak and write English
and the boys know that they can get
flx-IA yY1onc H.,
equipped. This fact is crowdine the day
schools of the association with punijs
who wish to learn English and the night
classes are full of such men,
The athletic feature also forms great
drawing card. When the Y. NJ. C. A.
came to China, ten years ago. the natives
had no interest in athletics. The old
Chinese scholar prided himself upon his
green goggles. his long finger nails his
attenuated form and his hollow chest.
With the bringing OF athletics into the
public schools and the organization of
military drill everywhere, physical exer-
else has become popular. and the secre-
tarieS of the associations have now no
trouble in filling their gymnasiums. They
have organized field days at the different
eenters. and eight or ten thousand come
in the annual meets. There are 5000
students in the modern schools of
Tientsin, and the interest in such matters
there is SO great that an address was
recently delivered to the students Of the
government schools on the subject,
when Will China Win the Olympic
Canes Indeed. it is safe to say that
before many years both the Chinese and
the Japanese will be found in all inter-
national athletic competitions, and it will
not be surprising if Asiatic some day
wins the marathon.
l find trained physical director here
in charge of the Shanghai gymnasium
He will start a national training school
for physical directors. and native Chinese