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Show The g i r l s of the Boarding school have in charge an afternoon Sunday School, ' on Bamboo Stree t and some of the children who are firoit members of that jilfo group have l a t e r become regular pupils in the Day School held in the same .compound. During the year i t haa^ enrolled about forty children who l i v e in t the neighborhood. The teacher here is one of the graduates of the Boarding school.The f i r s t two years of primary work fcaetaught. Both boys and g i r ls : a t t e n d , a rather unusual arrangement for China. In the autumn term one of the I teachers 01 the Boy's Boarding school si * school. ^o. gave two hours a day to helping in t h is The Kindergarten has rejoiced in the great advantage of a smooth floor! A new d o o r of cement has replaced the old on/e of brick,and now s k i v i ng games are in order,The Kiddy car sent out by l i t t l e folks kn America" can be d a i l y used,and i t is possible to p r o t e c t the children from the dust which has been a dange:nbefore. Two untrained teachers .both of them former puoils in" our ecnools have given t h e i r time to t h i s work. Always there is a happy busy group uhere and t h e i r games and aongs are a pleasure to the grown-ups'" of the church as well as to the children. That there is a f i e l d for growth is evident od Sundays . For then the *6 rooms and sometimes the yard too are f i l l e d to the l i m i t . Two-hundred is a number not uncommonly reached. Here two the teachers are some of them the pupils^of Jbhe school a*e>^ffrsTSaa4i»e^TOie* »^m some Normal tr t r a i n i n g ' f o r them,that they may know how to teach the l i t t l e ones. No report of t h i s year's work could leave out the r e l i e f work for the poor suffering from the s t r e s s of famine conditions about.tfi Besides the i n a u s t r i a l wfcrk for womerf,another form of help has been in opening a home i o r l i t t l e children whosd parents can not provide for them. After the harvest uaey are to return home ."for the w i n t e r ' t h e y are given clothing , bedding anl „ ? 2 > ^ T h e S a rSent Ward of the Women's Hospital has been borrowed for t h e ir use. It is l i g h t and roomy and beds pf &#& on the f l o o r , ^ ^ ^ ^jc}i m^s made of straw covered with mats are quite as soft and comfortable afl the usual orient K ang of the Chinese home. The home opened with twenty-five but as g i l t s have come i t has been possible to increase to the number of seventy a^d more are expected. In' two of the church o u t - s t a t i o n s similar homes have' opC£?icL,ana r\n -><*+-Jn£v*\ncther Hospital court has housed about forty l i t t le s o - c a l l e d orphans" whos people are e i t h e r too poor to take them back even , a f t e r the harvest or wh have been l e f t without parents. They are to go to an Orphans Home e s t a b l i s e d by a Mission at T'ai An, The investment of f i f t y dollars in clothing provided work for eleven w women who-aa^d^d he-^^^^^ and also provided garments for over tp f o r t y persons <at the tire when the winter opened. Other r e l i e f societiejjfs have m ^ ^ w ^ M r giveqp.rments to the poor.Money too has been given and the building of a roadVds. provided Employment for many men whose horned neoole are having a hard time.\FMCeossj- '^ " * " '%*A °nyy¥fAjya^J^aeWmi3l-e the a d d i n 6 of ten l i t t l e g i r l s to the school {iwm. are £0$ -pppp pp p v^ftrom very poor homes but are older than the children who are taken into £< fa cY,y " Z ^ y ~P* t {] ..»#-•" . : , v 7.,. .4,-y.. v J,- I ' ' • /: 7- • fiy7777M- &uY-the bme for the Poor.-, •-it, tA 4 a A * K e.y 3 *r\A*JL 1A«HS / / • |