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Show Dear ?riea.us ;- ' ' l"e o.a so oooiy of yua a letter or some word of greeting that 1 now take •. ,- Corona 10 a,o/" ...o a ke a derma type stencil copy for ase on oar new aeostyle Duplicoior and thus answer a pile of your letters wioo, a few turns of the crank ! - _ We had a fine rear and mare at home on furlough, let t Ncronfield, M*nn*. Aug. olth, 1917. get king a glimpse of Nebraska, Denver, Salt Lake Caty _ the Great American Desert, and California, en route to San Francisco, ana hawing a chance to see the faces of many good friends al ong the w a y v J * had a pleasant voyage across the great deep, with a brief stop at Honolulu, and a stay of three days at Kobe, Jaaan, where we caanged boats tor iter-osia, We had the gregit privilege of acting as. escorts for five new laey missionaries of our own Board, one of them scheduled for Kobe College, Japan aal the others all for North China, vie are delighted to report that one ox these, Hiss Cailie Hunger, of Horthfield,. decided to share with as tie entire t-ap through ta L.intsing, and is now^nappily au worK here as trained narsa in the Hospital, She came to China accompanying her nether, whs has gene to make" bar heme with another daughter at T d k u, D ban s i« , ^. n Y^A '' On the boat between Kobe and Tientsin we had paokea our urunlcs ana suit eases with the intention of staying a day or too at Tientsin and then proceeding by train and boat to lintsing, Yfe reached Tientsin Sept.. 25th going over the bar at Taku about six o'clock a.m.. -in the midst of £ gentle drizzle, and having a good taste of Chinese mud in passing from the wharf to the railroad depot. An hour's rids brought us unaer leaden skies to Tientsin where we were met by missionary friends.. More discouraging to us and the new reoruits than the leaden skies had been were ^ T * * £ : J * ° £ £ that had cut off our railway communication with bhaatwr.g, h.,d o.ireaay en gulfed hundreds of towns and villages, and threaiensa oo over lo,, hau or more of Tientsin city. Hence our stay in Tientsin andj^lng t,ae per force lengthened to two weeks. We took advantage oi thio enforc^ stay to visit friends in Peking and T'ungchow, attend sessions of the Peking Language school, and see some sights not seen before by us the most int ereiting being the Peking Museum established some years ago by Pres. .uan and containing some elegant old bronzes, P^teries and cloisonne w.re^ By Oct. 10th the floods had so far suosided thalue oouId sL rt on the trip' Lintsingward. Embarking by houseboat fromTientsin on the great sea of water that had submerged the t™1^ ™*YYrlh?°Yn broken the railroad track in many places wo proceeded over ohe gra a fields, under the telegraph wires which grazed ohe top of our boat, ana over the railroad track where our rudder f-u§p;Pra^eftsiiOwhere ,:e reached late on the second day the nearest point .0 T i e n ^ » ^ could take the train. Late at nig-tat our bagga6~r ?°» . t is than seventy pieces( for we were taking along most o% our p ^ r sullies for ourselves and other Linosing.ues) were - a l p g p ; = k . "e boat and on the backs of half a hundred coo ;es " ^ ^ 1 ^ ^ our way followed the next morning and t h a w a g h t reacnea ..en- the Venice-like to the Tehchow Compouna, stepped in.-o"£ -c.-o..u that Twin Hospitals and were safe for over Sunaay, Je v - to sie night with the la? U p <tf the X d T t t e * i S ? S s ^ e uaaceus-nounding in our ears and were awakened- in the » r ' ^ , / t any .ouec, ^ music. It gave one a creepy feeling as thougn co moment the -waters might come into ttw rocae ariying you a e » « ^ ^ afee a safer refuge. IsV.ling -sub from tne ' " £ * • •*«£ f*oole ever subside taei-e was waiter, -rater, everywhere. *en '• ^ - k -Jca x l ° "" arf eur friends resume their normal l n e again . |
