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Show 2. Br. Vincent Wagner-April 3,1930. The Wilsons said Grace and I have rented the Pettus Mill at T&taiho f or* the summer. It is a double house with a lovely tea-garden court yard. We h&i heard that the ice-house has been filled and that a garden will be planted* It only remains to get goats to make our summer as complete as can be with* out the ocean. Mrs. Wilson has bargained to run the kitchen,training in a cook to keep if he proves satisfactory. We are going to order a lot of sup* plies from Tientsin for fear that the civil -a/ar will cut us off,as well as make local prices very high. Up ther Australian butter will be a real luxury. I guess it will have to be canned butter. How we are getting good freh Australian butter. Last night we went up stairs and had dinner with Br. and Mrs. Ingram (co-workers with father and mother). He $sked me if I thought he could learn to drive. I told him yes,but added that I doubted if he would want t to undertake the strain of crowded traffic. If he wants to drive west after their trip back by way of Siberia,he had better get some college boy,like m Tucker to spend a summer driving for him. Mrs. Ingram doubted if they w would stay a whole year,for Br. Ingram woftld get impatient to get back into the traces in Peiping. If you ever go to Long Beach,look up Virgil Sedgwick. So far as I know he is still practicing there. That is where Ted Millard lived(and his brother},pld members of Plymouth Club,Berkeley,that Mrs. Sadler took unde¥ her wing. BYQTy one who comes in from Bhansi,or up from Shanghai,tells how p preparations fpr war are being rushed. The lines are pretty well drawn for a major conflict. The Shansi forces have already taken control of all thia region(Peiping,Tientsin,etc.) so that I suspect that the China we see and live in will go quite as usual,save for more or less disruption of rail tra fie,which after all the average Chinese citisen pays little attention to. |
