The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-10-13
PLAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S CLUB
 IN SHANGHAI
By EDNA LEE BOOKER
respondent

Shanghai, Oct. 13-Some 50 Amer ican women, members of the Ameri- can >Woman's Club of Shanghai, with dreams of a greater American com munity in few years in this port city of the Orient, are launching a cam paign to raise funds to build an American woman's club house in Shanghai.
 The first feature of the campaign is a three-day State Fair, which will be held this fall in the Town Hall, when it is hoped that several thousand dol lars will be cleared.
 The American women in Shanghai come from all section of America, and a spirited rivalry has been started by having the various sections organ ized into groups. each group being re- sponsible for it's own booths in the bazaar. The groups include the South ern States, the Pacific Coast States, the Middle West. the New Amsterdam States, Alaska, Hawaii and the Phil | ippines.
 U. S. Food Delicacies | Each section will sell the articles and products typical of it's part of | and dinners will be served which are l typical of the various groups, There will be fried chicken, hot biscuit and sweet potatoes from the Dixie Land; baked beans and brown bread from | Nv England, old-fashioned boiled din- l ners from the Middle States and hot tama1es, cri1li con carne and Spanish 1 rice from the West.
 | A brass band will ride through the town each day advertising the bazaar.
 The American Woman's club has grown from a handful of members who met in various homes as a social | and literary society some 20 years ago to a well organized club, with more than 500 members. The organization
 is affiliated with the Federation of Women's Clubs of America, and car ries departmental work very much
 as do the clubs at home, adapting, however, the study to the na4as of the Orient
 l The mothers section Ia especially popular, as the problem of bringing
 up children in Shanghai is discussed from every angle, while the local au- | thorities give addresses with help full suggestions, to the women who are trying to bring up their children in a strange land and where the conditions I are far different from those in Amer ica.-
 Art Section Popular
 The art section is another very suc-
 cessful feature of the club, for the years program includes the study of Chinese porcelain, prints, painting, precious stones, bronzes and antiques. Visits ar made to the homes of var fous collectors, who display their cu- rios to the club women.
 The club durng the last few years
 has been meeting in the ballroom of need for club house that every effort will be made during the coming year to raise the funds sufficient to build Shanghai is a city of clubs, but up to the present time all of them are | mems organizations-some of which
 are open to women. There is the | French Club, the English Club, the
 Club. the Rowing CIuh, the Race Club, the Golf Club the Polo Club, International Recreation Club, the | Shanghai Club, the American Club and the Customs Club. But there is not one club building which is open to the American women, or to the British women, for their regular club meetings.
 | The American Women's Club has become such a force along civic and
 moral welfare, lines in this city that | the whole American community is cooperating with the club women in l their efforts to raise building funds