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Show ' Later,Tuesday,bugust 30 1921 There were other tainys that day-1 have forgotten thea now,except the time i canning some ssrall appl.es and the luxury of woraing in the kitchen with no class schedules to he smashed therebyl I paid 220 coppers for 300 little red appies. They are too ripe to keep long so I have enjoyed snaring with the little folks who come and the few left atthe school. Of the over forty little girls who were a$ the school through the summer al but five have gone home-some with tears and some with smilee and some have fifi come back since so hungry! Still this IB not the hardest time and we hope tha cold weather will fincl as many as last year being cared for here.lt is so hard to let them go and o fien it seems right to send a doblar or two to the home with them. I gave some bread to one kiddie who carne sayinguI am hungry every day" and then asked ÍWhat do you Say?"-expecting a "Tfcank You.H for tney are very polite,but matead all the answer I got was the same"I am hungry every day." Another hard thing is trying to máke a school that will accomldate onl sixty boarders,even with crowding hold the thirty more who have applied! It can not be done-but which shall we turn away! September 9th is the day for school work to beginj The you©g teachers are new but they are willing and we expect a good year. Miss Long is probably on her'way back. Dr Almf Cooke will be here in September and probably inOctober her married sister from India with her two children and husband'will be our guests. Does that nejt sound nice? Ruth got here yesterday afternoon. She carne freo. Techow by cart in fp about three days. A quicker trip than mine,but rougher! There w.as lots of mud. and twice she saw other carts tiped over in what b. 1 calis the ''mud ffiXl wells " in the roads. At Yu Fang she learned i'rom the blind teacher of two women,both over thirty who want to come and learri tofread. They have not been married, and because of being, busy in the home where there were no brothers they have never studied and now they ask to come here to read. I hope we can manage it.But they wil... hardly fit in the school. I bate had such nice mail these weeks and esptcially the letters from some óf you. I - ' ínking about you daily and am so. much interested in all the visits and news and of course am excited over Betbbs aew home. How I hope she can be at Forest brove'for tbe wedding if it can not be at oberlin. Next Morning. I wakened with a longing to see how lovély some of the girls' (Harrietb Dorothy E)bright zinnias would look on my office window sill,but when I got down stairs and saw youa letter I have a bigger longing to get some answers to it and to send itto tell you you are all \AÍ¿ ..•;-.. be e* I have your phot in my net over my dressing table and can see them often, I do appreciate the letters that have como. How often eluring the monta and more among the great hills aboutICalaen 1 c-id wish for you to be en^oying it too. I was not all íal but it seemed so unfair to be less busy than the res$ of you! But here at L*¿. I am "one of the familv" again,and have no iack of occupation. I know you yrfi would have enjoyed the.tramps,the wonderful hills,with the Great Wall in sigh the «reen valley and many wild flowers. The people are fine too and it was so nice^td be in a home where the little folks beyedfor stories and. liked to ! . go with me for flowers and i " birthdáy presenta for ;". I i in^great , . secrecy! Little Jearlthe Teche-' baby s aweat as s1 s y. E often woadorad if she was like the wee bables at home. I greatly enjoa nowing h/ her and*her mother, There was a f.W. girl from Tsinan ,some a.E^girl Tient. In , b ¡ o our own miss ion Peki a The\ and the bhitackers of • ] . I ' a 5 - - " • "•'* ce is a • "• . thing in our minia, j tt much to '• '. "• tions. A Christian Goveraer roa last uecn ^iven shlp-G-eneral Feng,and Wu Pei Fu in Hunan is a. really unir '' a It 3 " time for patriots¿ aeh'love'to eaeh one- ""our " "di-d i a TaX' |
