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Show Tung Chow,July 5th, 1908, My dear family, It is a week since the preeejing page was ready to be seatjfcft it bas had to wait because There were other things to tell you (though for that matter tfeggfi-kàs never been a. letter sent you that did not leave me with a sensé of^t-dll not nearly half of what 1 wanted to sayÛAnd this has been a particularly busy week,fer,in spite of my.résolves to do no médical work while hère, u siels boy has held-a very large place in my thought thèse days,His father is the teacher ©f the boys* church school and his- mother ©ne or the teachers in the girls* echool.They hâve" :: -£t*v "" with bpqks ar.d pictures#whéeh mark a much larger différence beiwe$n homes here*lÉ^ S dék in America.He was a Yery sick baby when Mrs.Wilde r first askecl me to see him, and I coulcl not but be anxious about him.- His maternai grandmother had been the nurse of the Sait children and so I was not afraid to perscribe measures that in anothe.r family .might hâve met w$th opposition. But/when the paternel grandmother knew what treatment he was being given (colonie flushing) she protested with tears that she coulcl not allow her child to be killed in that wap,But Mrs,Wilder saiêf"Tbe Lord gave this baby to his father and mother and they must do what they think right", "No% saicl the old woman, "The Lord gave him to gg*, This is the view of «11 filial China.After a day of native treatment the young parents sent, asking if I would please corne and tell t-hem if there was any hope left,The mother had conseated to, let them do as they pleased.All 1 could do. was to »fray ixméè make the baby a trifl© more comfor-table and to Btay,|ft^ for the parentâr sake, until the little soûl had flit-ted away» The father and mother helped eachother dress their boy in his best clothes.Their grief was very quiet, but the sobbing of the poor'old grand- . mother was pitiful to hëar. some time China, will not be so wholly governed by lia a ancestors T living and de ad* But it was not about this that you hâve waited to hear.The day I finished the preceeding sheet Kable came over to the Goodrich house where I hâve a roooe^fitted up for my study, and we walked home to supper together,"Home" is trie ladies* house which we hâve for the summer. It is a very pleasaat house with a wide upper porch where Mabel and I alaep, Please excuse the digression» Mrs.Ellis was waiting for us on.the steps and greeted us with that clàssical quotation familiar to us all,*I know something I worft tell** We promptly %fii tolomier we did not care if.she did notftell" if there was some other way of fmaing out,3hen she addeé the information thatbavhe someone would cornewto-marrow »,We both saidjfMr.McCann", for we had. heen expecting word from him. ; • You Know something of how glad 1 was to see Mr,McCann when he reached hère, because you who saw him just before he sailed know that you were ^lad to send messages directly to «e»bui it is even.nicer to get the messages than to send them.He had brought the packages yon sent.I opened them right away but am gomg to ©ail them Christmas présent s. Before this reaches you you will *J hâve received the picture postais sent to tell you- the notes and présents { were appreciated. Bob,son of Battle looks interesting.and I ara sure 1 WJJJ ; en.j-oy it, p.erhaps we may ré ad it aloud next- winter. Yeg the gloves are a"li$- ^t tle heavy for this time .of yeai^as you suggested,...but' wait. until 1 am mailing %j my daily trips to the dispensary we hope to buiid this fallf and they will J be just what are needed. Please tell me sometime how you-make rose-petal beaas.- They will make my handkerchiefs email very sweet. Huit beauti'ful oie- fr tnraa that Pillsbury company makesî 'This one of the fleet «rith Idith*s a©~ . %, count of how you watched it enter .the Golden Gâte make s megalmost imagine. 1 H? •****. myaelf.me i-s the young lady la the kindergarten rifttOgrqfh Leroy f° sent? 'The notes-you wrote were especially appreciated.lt makee àjbu home peo- *«i pie see.m less far-away when. your letters are brought by sSeone faiMteaàhof w aeing^sent oy mail, though please' do not dream of sending.Tetté^s pemifl lç fil this latter way.I am anxious to hear about your visit witM M&^icckniMZ3|Ck l saicî you planned to see her the week after he left.( And iyd w y ou ^ saw any of the Stelles or Galts ©r any of the others wHo^we»,, their party) .MB.McCann said he wished very much he might bave seen papa, fo he would hâve liked to talk to him about coming o.ut to Lintsing.He said'he l tnought,papa, that you would firad life there fuil of interest and pleasure a. \s because there would be so many way s ' in which FOU might. busy y ourse If.Some- 5 times parents who livs with their children out here'find it hard to b© ©fin- { 6enteafth© interests out.side of their owm circle are so few,and this is the J' reason l hâve not dared to urge Edith and Papa to corne ,much as I long to see them and much as they neeà ldithsor someone exactly like her, in Peking. 4, i jcnow that Bd-ith wanta nothing so much as to spend her H T © where it will j l?,T ^°8l forJhe «aster, and that is what papa wants for her too, so I. am | sure tne dear Father will guide them , and keep them there or bring them out , «?«La5f ?l t 0 T His P!an Miich is sure to be infinately better than .any H pxans we couxd make by ©urselves and perhaps différent in every way from our^h imaginings 4 but alwâys better. J Accostai from îfergaret, mailed in Granada Spai^has just come?but tells no» I?r+gn? î Plans, only some interesting items about the voyage, 1 woiader im «•«;? S plans aFe-Poî9te R^co? And is Hester in New England for vacation*! m ^.lamg copies of our Lintsing reports to each of vou^rown people. |