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Show i It wws nice to have all the metting right there in the ladies' dining room and not have to take a Jong hot rickishaw ride mvwhere and we d sood meetings. The pr^'sure towardswthe Chinese taking over tilings is pretty strong hut/.i hope they don'^ push it so that the work will suffer. They are not 're y to raise money themselves and as long as they depend on foreign funds, i - • ,v think the;/ will get very far. The meetings were verv j aic.hiVfce and lasted from *riday night until Wednesday night,an 1 then we had foreign meetings for another day. 18 e heard Kreisler will in Tientsin and that was surely a wonderful treat. Label came from iechou and heard him twice in Peking before the concert in Tientsin, lie surely is a pleasant man and a wonderful musician. I am glad we have some of his records. ibel,Maud,an1 1 came down together and had quite a nice trip for the weather was not as hot as it Is some years ay. .-/e staye L the night at i'echou and then came on in a big cart, and rere much more comfortable on that£f>££p than I usually am: we stayed at Wu-ch'eng all night ami got here before three the next day. It was nice- to get back again and see everything green: we had missed most of the pink roses which the -minis said were lovely,but the green of the trees was lovely and the weather was nice,an L the hollyhocks hist coming out. They were just beautiful everywhere an L ± wish you could hav i . ^ si : between the former wal,ls,are now in the school yard, and do make such a lovely show. We thank yon! I i wonder whether any one has i oved the west wall this springs Mr.^astman said last fai: set against it in the spring,that he could move the garage surprised us so we lidn't know what to do* It was too iat' then and J. was afraid that he would change his mind by Oh*en ready and we did it,so the garage is now at the south gate and we have those two nice trees and lots more room* He also sale, that he could move the goats,after we suggested that there would be a good place to the south of the compound near the hollow,and so we are tearing down that back irall and tkMp;g it into the school yard. We have tern out the big north : te and put In the straight wall, and have a wall across bach: of the j I ts and in line with the dining room wall,at the back of our yard* there is a gate there for the scavenger to use with the key in he's Hands. We expect to buil I another toilet'across to the_north from the west end of the row of dormitories and build the new_dormitories,-probably one/y one from appropriation money because we can' ^ get any other-, aloe0' to the west on a little slant to foJLloa the wall somewhat. The toilet will cut off the back part then so that the gate will be a "private" one for the coolie .to empty the cans, we are not just sure that we will do all this just this way but it seems the ) t pi; now. I»re hope this fall to build an industrial building on a line with';'our south dormitory,-that used to be a school room-; Ruth has some funds an! we are going to put the specials in on that an I we hope the plana will come so that we can have it to use next year. our second grade that is coming in as the third is so large that I am afraid the large room will not held them and we may have to divide and have some in the basemelb or some other place. We got a swinging board up for the youngsters near the teeter and. they do have such fun on that: Ruth put one up at Kuo-tzu-hliang too and they certainly enjoy it. t r I ax an to .*. t V j t en t h a t er being U J.. 11 » " te, wh I t d we aw e: |