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Show - z - Association of the Mass Education Movement will xun a course of lectures thru the two weeks and there are five Ph. D's from American Universities among our Chinese teaching staff, so that we will have highly trained leadership along that line. The plan is to get key men from a l l parts of China to this i n s t i t u t e and on their return they will start thru their church groups movements for teaching Christians and others how to read and write the thousand characters, following this up with a well planned program of Religious ikiucation thru the church, the school and the home. He has been asked to get out suitable l i t e r a t u r e for use in this campaign and hopes to finish several snail religious phamplets this spring. A H3AL For recreation Mr. Hubbard has installed a bath-room in our house, BATH-TUB the f i r s t Since we have been in China. The bath-tub i t s e l f formerly belonged to President Tsao K'un of China who used to live in our humble c i t y . We consider it somewhat an honor to bathe in a presidents tuba It is certainly a great pleasure to have running hot water, altho it is confined to this one room in our house. We formerly had to use a t i n bathtub and heat water specially for cur "weekly bath", so that a good porcelain bath-tub and running water seems a great luxury. I suppose that our friends in the States will think that we are quite primitive. The Managing Editor's f i r s t duty upon arriving "was fo get the outfits of the two boys ready for boarding school at Tungchow. Thif is an accredited high school with a good corps of American teachers and American course of study. Then she had to get her liouse in order and the g i r l s started in their lessons at home with two children of the other family here. |,. THE Several years ago, virion in charge of the g i r l s scjiool she f e l t the GL3ANERS utter inadequacy of proper reading material for the Chinese school c.nd wrote to Clara Lau^ilin, asking her if she would like her book, The Glo&ners, with its splendid l i f e of Millet to be put feito Chinese for them. She wrote a most gracious l e t t e r and the work was iegun, but the care and teaching of the four children caused i t to be put asidte u n t i l this fall* With the help of cur Chinese teachers it was finished just before Christmas and our women's club was plaiciitig to use i t for a play at that time. But that iiad to bo given up, because at Christmas time we were in quarantine * for scarlet fever. TRIP TO Of course, the boys could not come home for Christmas, so as soon PEKING as we were out of quarantine I took advantage of two commit toe meetings which I was supposed to attend to make a t r i p to see them. It is only SI miles to Peking. With our car we could have gone in two hours. On that train it took me tv/enty-five hours. And no seats were available. I stood in the a i s l e or sat en my suit case. There was no dining car or t o i l e t. Three times the engine broke end three times we had to wait hours for repairs, twice having to sund to anctner ctution for an engine. But nobody in the "whole t r a i n , except myself (the cne foreigner} was especially disturbed by the poor train service. To be sure I \;&s on the way to a committee mooting of the Board of Managers of Jefferson Academy to be held Saturday noon and had waited since Thursday noon for the regular express. When i t had not come at 6 o'clock Friday ni^ht, I-took the local. Being warmly dressed and having a luncheon box from which I managed to extract four meals, I did not suffer. Everybody was good-natured, t e l l i n g stories, offering me tea and cakes and asking me if I was comfortable, I shared my valise with a Chinese g i r l . The gentleman on the other side sat on the floor putting his head on the other edge of the valise and slept the sleep of the just thru the n i # i t. |