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Show FUTURE LEADERS OF CHRISTIAN CHINA 31 list. All boys who receive scholarships are required to work for one half. At the end of the year, further aid was refused one of the brightest boys because he thought the church owed him a living' Coys are doing all the janitor work of the school, aud others are working in the kitchen an I waiting on table. Others are room servants, gatemen, stable boys, gardener,, and one is even a steam-fitter. That this work is accompanied by the right feeling of democracy is shown by a remark of one of the students that the boy he regarded as the biggest all round success was "So and So." The boy mentioned was one working for every cent of his education and doing his work well. In PAOTINGFU, one of the boys is earning half his way by teaching in the day-school. And in the TUNGCHOW girls' school, the giris are making an effort to earn enough money to pay the expenses of their own delegate to the Y. VV. C. A. summer and drawing. Two of the best At The Swing Memorial Academy Taikuhsien conference by making scrapbool drawing pupils added a little to the fund by making place cards for the foreign Christinas dinner, but, needless to say, were not enlightened as to the meaning of the mistletoe they were painting! Side by side with this newer spirit in the boarding schools goes an increasing spirit of independence in the INCREASING d a y s c h o o l S i In o n e of t h e C0Untry schools of SELFSUPPORT TAIKUHSIEN, the local board of managers decided the foreign stove that had been given them was burning too much coal, so they constructed a stove out of Standard Oil cans, costing about thirty cents gold, which burned about half as much coal and heated the room perfectly. Tuition fees are everywhere being increased and being met. Receipts from pupils in the PEKING station amounted to $4235 Mexican, not including union institutions. In TIENTSIN, tuition fees have been put on the same basis for boarders and day-pupils; and four times as much came in as the year before. Only about one quarter of the boys receive, some help on their board or tuition, and this money comes from subscriptions raised from Chinese and foreigners locally, |