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Show Li at sing chow, China, Sum arel, 1909* Dear msent members of the Lintsing station, Though there I* no vary pressing news connected aith the people .and things yea left 4tyaa" I knew you wish ta know all about everything and that though it is only a week sinae j&u sailed -away that fall will wonder .b" h:/?»3 are net a deaen letter s waiting in Tientsin far yea*(I have been th*r*3 0 m.mmm nvao. Swaat Ju&n has gene home to be back in a ui4,a Sa's.Troxel's p a*t^virts t o i«| lady al the gate-keeper to Mr, 'To "hiiah s# Swang Yuan a; o n , a Pi aa t ; a &i< the y shing and ironing in a l i t t l e more tliata a ci«y, :* ' • a- * .: . -, s i - a-in - h l a alt : tha f t h month .He .. C?hi*_s eJotites, thaf told n* o£ how hard Q \ sp *ere having and so I ajf g l ^ i i p 5k& Hfoftj a Smpio stork * '• '" -1 ' - " " s ITAS a l i t t le c a r e l e s s about her wora. &M&. t&&4( too i.a*g .resto but ai'.o.n- I poke about it she improved K ^ ' ^ I V . Hu}a i£*^£'i*»fcXX liwat Tfaia oevar So a a a a a l t h hat that Shu Hung j u s t finished,Should you l i a; one, Mrs.ITl'i«.-? i« pot hare at a few minutes a f t e r six yesterday and they work tiies-.-.. a:-.p ' l a t l i nearly gevew I ought not to complain if they do drink tea rather often. I...intend to pay her l e s s than the women get but will probably .make her a l i t t l e present that w i l l make i t about the sameThey say they have sold almost everything fram ta tha h o u s e , t a b l e s chairs e t c . , and that since Ju Chai got h i s P.O. p o s i t i on he has sent only two t i a o home. The p r e t t y l i t t l e s i s t e r comes with Shu Jfung so that i t will be proper for her to appear on the s t r e e t . Sunn shik Fu has been sick, but ioos h i s work .Tha gate keeper Li skinned His leg so we have l e t the other man stay a faw days l i n g e r to r e l i e v e him, The s i l v e r has been put away. Tha plan for the side-board fofc the S l l is house I explained to Hstt Shia Wu l a s t night and he i s working out tha wood. I r l l send Mrs •PS a copy i f I* have time to sake i t .ISr.McCann raake a suggestion or two that I l i k e d . One was to have a p a r t i t i o n making the dining-room side of the side-board nine inches deep arid the pantry side eight.Seventeen or eighteen inches i s too deep for your p r e t t y dishes that ought to show. If you do not like the thought say so right away,please. Lien Chili's old grandfather eaoie for her f i n a l l y , but he had no money for the home t r i p whieJf they had to make on foot. You had not told me anything about her t u i t i o n etc,- if a l l her b i l l s were paid so I f e l t no r e s p o n s i b i l i t y about that attd only t r i e d in ay best and strongest Chinese to impress the old man with the fact . t h a t the school does not furnish t r a v e l i n g expenses for the p u p i l s . I might have convinced him if the l i t t l e g i r l had not been there with her head dewn and the t e a r s just ready to come and 1 thought of the tiro days of dusty road .and of the poor hungry home to which she *as going and i t seemed as if a / )^ hot fliifcsty wind dried my words up in my t h r o a t , I gave them six hundred ca&h (which w i l l not be charged to the school) and charged him to remember that the pupils are to be brought to school and taken home by t h e i r p a r e n t s . By tha way,Mys.Me Cann,thii i s the l i t t l e g i r l who gave Ruth her Cricket, She i s a dear c h i l d . Mrs.Yt* and her g i r l s went home Tuesday. There have been several unhappy a f f a i r s since you l e f t .Sir.Li thrashed his newly- married son because that young man suggested that h i s t a l k to one of the hired men was too strong.The boy'"was not meek. The ^ang Pao Shan family had such serious and continued quarreling that the neighbors cai*e and begged us to do something. Mrs.Kuoafirony of fate) and I went to i n v e s t i g a t e , and to admonish them to be long- suffering and to l i v e in peace, -Haking the best of a s i t u a t i o n that ought never to have been.They were most respectful and thanked me for coming .1 w i l l not burden you with d e t a i l s . T h e next day the two wives came ana assured me again that they would h e r e - a f t e r l i v e in peac®.. We prayei tagather Defer* they l e f t a i t h e i r f?v*ayers were VQAJ humble and f i l l e d with p e t i t i o n s for .fo-rfiv.aji.ess*%e oider .. i . i .- , i©t f i n i s h her prayer for erpian antLUte ^ti&gar one j$>*£**t sucit a queer l i t t l e pr®.j®r full of . m tiuna-1 j9kv-a&*s >*t eav*<?s^ and a i fh i hw i ividrml s i a s n i ^ t t' 6. .. ?&lvm anxl her fieavt- chavtgecf, «s well «. t ; 'tliat oiioir family of •fkr«c wi^ht live In Vt^wowf * ''ni'i" "S'".aSa.aVo ;. ..mm- h-aa have had a i*jrfay*ift&* ^ opinion i s T .omo raprovc$t. v.a yeSukaa aha. a l l diliganea and they to., mx-mm to oovaa again cause me so to 'waste i y a n , a t a^osyt- them, v •-" ' a . a a i ,i iOd that the.re co-Id have bsain so '.so seapla at churek '•-" .-s :-r yXoon th* n.oO,al coagregations of two hundred wcaea. Bat every one 'aha oobbo had gone to gather or glean ahaat.AXX Wh® coulanf ' t : a© *ere at home :.oa_i . s pit a s . So s i d e s a few of amy own church women (eight or ten attended at the caapal)there ware when we began the service only t h a a e l i t t l g g i r l s and two beppaar womea. I had a l l the l i t t l e p i r l s in S.S. and eajoyo them muciu four or five other wonnan and as many children came in at the middle of the S.S. ho^ia 'Se^haje decideiChowever that we had b e t t e r keep up the services up there Tea some may he hack aext Sunday, Tha wheat harvest i t s e l f does not l a s t lonpa.lhis poor year i t cauiaot. 'h's.Troxel has la o n e e t i . ^ s with the women hoth tiSiursdays* Hospital p a t i e n t s too are not many. Ting Ohing aeeps the dispensary s p o t l e s s l y , c l e a n , and i s a r e a l help* My s i s t e r Smith writes that she may come out to PooChew t h i s f a l l . I t is not yet c e r t a i n . The houses are progressing well. |