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Show m Dinner comes at 12i30 and the menu is much like breakfast with the addition of vegetables and sweet potatoes in season. Cabbage is*a great stand-by and egg-plant is much enjoyed in the fall. Bean sprouts are a treat and bean curd and bean strings are bot once in a while for a change. Twice a week they have meat or eggs put into the soup, and once a week they buy bread made of white flour. Their diet is very simple* we wish they might have more but the fourteen dollars they pay a semester for food seems like a good deal to-them and with food so high we can't buy other things with that amount of money. The teachers have charge of the food money and make it go as far as they can. School starts again at two in the afternoon and lasts until half past four when the pupils all go out to the courts for games. In the fall term basket-ball, volley-ball, tennis, and circle games are popular, while in the spring much time is spent on drills and folk dances and singing games* We are fortunate in having a large yard, the west part of which is given over to courts and play apparatus, and these courts are a lively place every day from four o'clock on. The day school children of the first and second grades come over from their building near the church and one of our older girls, with a name that translates best "Bravery in Action", helps the teacher lead them in games| at the same time the women from the Bible Training School come over and exercise under the direction of Miss Murphy, our new evangelist. Then the third, fourth, fifth, and sixth grades come out and have a merry time, getting as much much exercise for their lungs and throats usually as for their bodies! The swings, teeter board, and Giant Stride add much to the enjoyment of school life and much to the health of the children. After exercise come baths for eight or nine girls a day, in the little bath room with primitive stone jars arranged along both sides of the room. The jars have holes bored to let the water out, and here are big kettles next door from which the hot water is poured into one of the tubs. While these girls are getting baths,"between the dark and the daylight", the other children are often in the yard playing games, kicking a shuttle cock made of a cash with a piece of sheepskin fastened to it, or throwing jack stones made of pieces of broken water jars rubted smooth, or catching balls. The older girls keep at their sewing,-shoes or garments or crocheting,- as long as possible and often beg the teacher to turn on the lights so they can work a bit longer before supper time. The teacher is wise and usually thinks it better for them to play a while and not to be tending over work all the time. Electric lights in the dormtories are just new this semester and we are so glad for the friends who made it possible to have them. Our lights were always poor at best and it is like magic now to be able to turn them on and off at will. Supper comes at six o'clock and about the same food is served as at breakfast. Study period is from seven to eight, with a short service of worship at the end, then the day closes as it began, with the ringing of the bell by Golden Fragrance at eight-thirty. Then lights out, and another day of work and play is ended bringing, we hope, the Kingdom a little nearer to us here, Ethel M. Long. |