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Show Tung Chow,Chi Lit (Lintsingchow, My dear family, ^g Special cong»at,ioas to on this their wedding adversary, since that-whits cake Shantung,)China.June 28,s08 Clover on her birthday.and to her and Dec it certainly does not seem three years £%$. wonder* how you celebrated this year. Bid you have pink and or do you reserve that for Lucy's andjHarry's anniversary? si-come todav from Mr.McCann mailed froni Shanghai, telling of his He said the effort to find you jwas great, but he was amply •" _-, .-kcl^a^ffl^t^"*" ^'" ^ould 'send when he was-sure of my - . . - : - y, y - : •„ help in the building that the board has recommend-load off of Mr.Kllis, And we We hope they will not al -has. just call in repaid. He men address. You will be glad to Lintsing for a year to ed.This will take a great have the family there too. think the narrow quarters too ' You surely will meet them before they come out - Mrs.McCanri and her mother, ttrs,King, and the three dear children; What a difference it wili* make in our station to have children therel Of bourse we cannot plan^detia* natelv until ve see Mr.MoCann but we think by transferring boys' scnoox, dispensary, and chapel to some native buildings that were bought last fail# _ pur small compound can be made to accomodate quite a number more tnan usually have lived there. »^AA d-d June 29th, A letter from Clover and Dee has^Ajvpt come and been enjoyed- esp. oeciallv the photographs of which I could not^wish there were more* C^?f§^ observe"the spirit and not the printed letter of this last statement)} The last pictures Clover sent and tEeH&eautiful picture postals from Margaret were also much appreciated if 1 did not say so in the proper M y at the-proper time.The picture of Luev«s new house makes it: seem quite real.How when she sends a plan of it 1 will make myself quite at home there.The children certainly do grow. Speaking of Chinese law. they have none in the same sense that we have, but I will see what some of the older missionaries have to say about it. Have you read Dr.Smith1s"China and America Today"?Probably I®u hgjp* That may give some light. How I wish you could visit China! That. "youVia/f> plural and includes the whole family.This certainly is a most interesting country, mien in Tientsin and Peking this last time I heard more of tne foreigners in Official and business circles than had ever been impresses on me beforehand it seemed to me that to live in China except as one doing missionary work would be more than my courage would ever allow, liven the teacn-r ere in" the government schools where you would expect a.man to have authority in his own department*.find their work very sadly hindered by directors and managers who are more anxious for numbers than for. real scholarships and mi0 4y cannot allow the napers of the rich or official to be markec3 'according to $5 their real worth/ But a change is coming and these teachers may well rejoice that they may help bring it about.When they h$£% of all the wonderful things we.do in*America Um why should the 'Chinese not wish us to help them to a ^ working knowledge' of medicine in one year and to .teach. dentistry, in a month? But the hardest part of being one of a foreign Community here outside^of^ missionary circles would be the constant struggle against influences indifferent ar Sad, influences eminating from those of your own race or kindred. races.There.are many, of course,.with high ideals and whose lives are cleanf but there are many more who are here ,to sow their.wild oats or to escape the natural harvest of such sewing elsewhere.Even the Christian people of tfee community have standards differing in many ways from these that have governed us.Mrs.Peck who knows where-of she speaks told, me that outside of mission* ary and Y.M.C..A. circles she knew of but two homes in Tientsin in which it not customary to serve wine as a matter of course.The English places of business are always closed' for horse-irfa ces see how I crying to send Miss we cannot -•;.;. o oaaix Isn't that queer? •But have rattled on, and there are so man:| pleasant interesting things be told you. Most of you already know:that the mission voted to Illis to Lintsing, and you can guess ^ow.glad but be sorry for the Tientsin station lady, Miss McGown.is to come out this .that fall wanted to keep her,A . from the womanss board of the east, and she has been assigned to Tientsin. A few days after our mission meeting closed Miss Ellis and I went to Peking - an hour1s ride on a slow train - to attend the commencement exercises, of the Union Woman1 s Col-ledge, I took Mrs.Chiao and her baby along for I was anxious to have the . mother see as much as she could comprehend of how medical work is done #iere they pj have more to work with and. have worked much, longer than we in Lin-tsihg. I was much more than repaid for any effort.-I made for her,Her eyes wee so bright and she noticed much .mere than" I expected her to.She was not em-barased. nor unhappy because of her plain un-stylish clothds, but was pleasant and friendly with everyone.whom she met.A fjne baby like hers helps make new friends.Miss Hits and'1 went too to the Chinese the examination cells,now falling into..-ruins, aid to. the temple and the large Catholic cathedrals but of these t al letter. . We are settled here ^ *p^«-- "v,« "h observatory and of heaven want to write a more gener-ax letter. . We are settled here in Tung Chow aanndd aallll ffoouurr ooff uuss ssttuudayyiin g. hard. About AugilSth Mabel and I go to Pei Tai to for two weeks »and then now glacuy we win hurry back to Lint sine. Muehh loxre to each* |