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Show - 104 - has it been less than forty, and more often sixty or seventy. Daughters of the missionaries as well as the older Chinese girls have helped with the children and have done much to make the school a success. The work for these little schools reached a climax on Children's day, May 10th, when the service was given to them. A hundred and fifty marched in with singing and flags, and occupied the centre of the church, and in different groups gave songs and recitations. Twenty-two babies were baptized, showing plenty more of coming material for these schools. Plans have been laid for the opening of two kindergartens in KINDERGAR- the fall. Public sentiment seems to be aroused on the subject, TENS TO BEGIN and there is a real demand for kindergartens. As some of the best prospective graduates from this department of the normal school in Peking are our own Tungchou girls, it seems best to make use of one of them, who can teach the two schools. An assistant teacher for at least one of the day schools A NEED should be added. Mrs. Chao's school now numbers thirty, and she has had to turn pupils away. The children love her, and the parents have confidence in her, and she is constantly having new applications. Her school is situated in a neighborhood where there are many children, and if we could put a young girl under her to teach the smaller children we could easily have forty or more pupils. Not to do this is to lose the chance of getting hold of the families we most want to help. Thirty-five dollars gold would cover the teacher's salary and the heating of the extra room. Forty boys marching to church in orderly, blue-gowned best: FORTY BOYS forty boys huddled in an excited group about the athletic IN BLUE field at a meet between them and the boys of the American School: forty boys swaying absorbedly over their books in the big bare schoolroom: which is the most characteristic picture of our boys' boarding school? Their ready interest shows itself in the Sunday afternoon meetings of the C. E. society as well as in their favorite basket-ball, (there being no room in their yard for any other ball game!) and, to their teachers' hopeful eyes, is even becoming marked in their studies. English is very popular with the teachers as well as the students, one of the teachers having a weekly rehearsal of his work with Mrs. Sheffield, for his own benefit quite as much as for that of the pupils. Of the forty, twelve are from non-Christian homes. One frolicsome lad of thirteen had to leave school for a reason strange to American ears,- -not on account of roguish pranks, but because his parents insisted, forsooth, on his taking to himself a wife. Last fall Mr. Li, the head-master, was approached by some of the people in the city interested in education, with an invitation to join them in forming an Educational Association for mutual counsel and benefit. While this opened up friendly relations with some of the gentry and literati of the city, the only practical outcome thus far has been the opportunity for comparing our own school with city schools of supposedly similar grade. Some admirers of our rather more thorough-going pedagogical methods declared our school should |