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WOMAN S WORK EDUCATIONAL. 289School, Hanyang, established only a year and a halfago) to fifty-four in the Rulison-Fish Girls School(M.E.), Kiukiang. In the C. I. M. Girls School atYangchow half of the pupils became Christians duringthe year. The majority of the pupils in all the schoolsare Christians.Personnel. A second fact to claim our gratefulattention is the greater diversity in the personnel of thestudent body. Our aim is not fewer girls from theas we canpoorer classes, but in addition to as manycare for of these, we want to reach the neglected upperclass. In McTyeire School, Shanghai, Laura HaygoodMemorial Girls School, Soochow (both M. E. S.),and the Hopwood Mission Girls School of Ningpo, mostof the pupils are from the higher classes, though theyby no means exclude others. In the Baptist GirlsSchool of Hangchovv more than a third of the pupils arefrom the upper class. One school in Nanking reportsthat twenty per cent, of its pupils come from officialhomes, another one ten per cent., and that practically allof these have become Christians. Similar reports comefrom other schools. A few schools have no girls ofthisclass.Tuition and Self-Support. JL few schools in thissection give tuition free. These draw the poorer classesand do not attract the higher classes, who put a highervalue on that for which they must pay. It appears thatparents in Central China are becoming increasingly willing to pay for educating their daughters this means;that schools are creeping up in the matter of self-support some reporting that their receipts cover one-third,;others one-half, and some few nearly the entire amountof their expenditures (exclusive of missionariessalaries). The cost of board and tuition varies. Inone school it is as low as $18.00 a year. Most ofthe larger schools along the Yangtsze make a chargeof $40 or $50. In St. Mary s Hall (A. C. M.),