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Show 2* to keep him from being burbled alive. The father censldered that that was better than letting him slowly starve to death. It was so hard to have to send him away, but the father was given two dollars, and told that he should come back in a month for mora* That isn't very muoh, and It won'$ give him as good food as he would have gotten here, but I think that it will keep the little tot from that awful end. One woman who brought her little girl to us the other day, was carrying her two months old baby wrapped next to her body under her one wadded garment* The baby was naked, and the thinest child I ever saw. He vas nothing but skin and bones, now oould he be anthlng else? His mother had nothing to eat herself, so how oould she feed the baby? One of the cane of condensed milk which Br* Cooke's friends sent went to that baby, and the mother was told to come again. A few day8 ago aat« Shih took me to see a family where there are six little girls. The mother of three of them, and the father of the other three died last summer during the cholera plague. Their fathers were brothers. The one father was sick, and there was a blind grandmother. I asked the oldest girl if they had eaten that day. T*hen she replied that they had, I asked if she had had enough. "Two small bowls of bean skins are not enough", vas the reply. Later we went into the room where the kettle stood In which this soup of bean skins and water had been cooked. Had the soup been made of nourishing materials, it would not have been enough to give the nine people a decent meal, counting three meals to the day Instead of one. Bean skins and wat r! And they are wall off. Yes, IBftL Off* In many of the villages in the country they tell as of people who are aating nothing but the bark of the trees* In the fall they ate the leaves, but they are all gone. People oame into our yard In the fall, and gathered the alfalfa and hollyhock leaves, and said that they were thankful for the privilege. When the men go to the villages to distribute relief, they find many homes where the people are so weak that they can't leave their k'angs. Others try to come to the door, they fall to the floor. This week being the big Chinese holiday time, I am not studying (have finished the gospel of Luke at last) and as I have seen none of this intense suffering, Edith ana* I are going out for two or three days. We had been thinking of going when the money from home made it possible to add children, and so now we and some Chinese man will go to some place and find children as soon as I can get ready for them. The hed Cross road is really being made. £ach Saturday afternoon we have full proof of it, for about five hundred men some here for their supply of food for their families for the week. That is the way they get their pay what food they and thair families need. It is certainly a sight which does one good to see, and we are happy to know that there are at least a few families who are not starving, although as a matter of «aet, the people of this city are better off than most, for the Chinese people of Shanghai and Ysinanfu, also those of Pekln, have done so muoh for them. The Pekin people are sending most of their money to us foreigners, and not all of it comes from the natives. My firat six hundred oame from there, and one of the one hundred and fifty dollar cheeks did also the later from the stndenta of our own academy. They gave an entertainment which brought them double that amount, bo you see the Chinese people are doing all they can to help too. I seldom go out onto the street without having two or three women offer to give me their babies. I'd have nearly as many for keeps |