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Show At that time, Miss Lilian Wu, Chinese graduate nurse, now superintendent of the Tr. School in connection with the Red Cross General hospital of Shanghai, will he-President of the Nurses Association of China. While waiting for my steamer for Manila, I spent several days at Hashing and Hangchow, visiting mission hospitals. At the latter place I was especially glad to see the famed work of Dr- Duncan Main, - his leper asylum, t.b. refuges, etc. In Shanghai I enjoyed the hospitaility of Mrs. K. B. Maxwell,, wife of the secretary of our China Medical Association, herself a nurse before marriage, and now acting as chairman of our Public Health Department, The S.S. Canada stayed overnight in Hongkong, giving me opportunity for a trip up to the Peak, and to Repulse Bay, affording a fine view of the harbor and hills* My host, Dr. Robert Pendleton, of the College of Agriculture, w was on the dock at Manila. We had time before the train left to slip into Union Church and hear Dr- Charles Jefferson of Bra&dway Tabernacle,-a pleasure indeed. Los Banos College is two hours out from Manila, by train, in the hills, and the luzuriant foliage is a joy to me, after the barren yellow plain of Shantung. It is hot, and rather a sudden change from the zero weather I left, but there-is no hospital schedule to compfc& strenuous days, and I work-hard "trying to loaf!!" I shall be here till the end of June, when the Tuckers come along*" on the S.S. Coblenz and pick me up. We go via the Suez route to U.S.A. We travel second class.*, and perhaps third on the Mediterranean, and with them, I can do it more aafely as to health, and more cheaply, than I could alone. September will see me at the University Hospital oi Penna., at Philadelphia, with my friend, Miss Minnie Goodnow, superintendent of nurses. She is arranging for work there and at nearby hospitals for three months. Enroute to Boston,_ I hope to see the contagious work at Providence City Hospital, and the Christmas holidays will find me among friends and relatives in my home city. - - -«-,-,-.. _ Letters will reach me here until June 25, then C/o American Express, Genoa, before July 15, and after that, the Philadelphia address, given below through December. Later,, C/o American Board, 14 Beacon St., Boston, will reach me until my return to China, next spring. . With warm greetings. Your "travelling" missionary friend, MYRA L. SAWYER, R. N* (Tehchow, Shantung, China) (1818 Lombard St., Phila, C/o Miss M* Goodnow, R.N.) - 4 ~ P, s. Just as this draft goes to the office for duplicating corner the word that our 1926 graduating class, three men and two women, have su.ccessfuFEj passed their national examinations, -three with honor grades. M. L. S. |
