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Show Ventures and Adventures at Lintsing U I (f3^> <&Wm H E heads of 100 or more jA Chinese bandits hanging from ^ A ^ the wall at Lintsing, China, in the province of Shantung,' where Dr. Alma Cooke, graduate of the University of California and the University Medical School is in charge of the Hospital, 'saved the lives of the people in the village during the bandit uprising,' according to a letter from Dr. F. F. Tucker of the Williams Porter Hospital at Tehchow, China. "' 'You will have heard of the bandit regime here', he goes on to say, 'but I am wondering if you will have heard what splendid service Dr. Alma Cooke has rendered and is rendering? The most notable part of it is that she is not the least conscious of her real heroism and efficiency.' "The afternoon I came here, a pitched battle was fought twenty miles northwest, between one thousand or more soldiers and the bandits. For weeks, this had been the base hospital for the wounded soldiers and now some fifty maimed and wounded men crowd the men's wards and overflow the nurses' dining room and the chapel. Dr. Cooke, recently reinforced by Dr. Hsu, has been the general and moving spirit of all the extra demands, though Miss McGwigan has done her part, too, as well as the fine corps of Chinese nurses and other helpers. Dr. Cooke has been on duty all of every day, and much of many nights. Her stature is not great in some ways but in the ways that count, in real service, few there are who have better done their part. Fabiola of old served no more finely than this up-to-date doctor doing her bit, far behind the scenes where no honors or praise can be expected save that 'well done' which is at once the strength and inspiration of the daily task. "On account of the shortage of physicians |