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Show In these special cases it is not hard for the children to recognize the doctor's authority, and, though such times as the one just described are hard on us, yet it is not these which trouble us most. Frost bitten feet and hands and cheeks are common in the winter and have to be cared for daily. But even these, though they take time, are not affections that the pupils try to hide. The diseases that take the most time and patience and are the hardest to cure, the ones of which the children themselves are ashamed and often conceal as long as possible and declare healed after two treatments if they can avoid the nurse's eye, are those of the scalp and skin, aggravated, if the truth must be told, by vermin. Indiadual combs and towels, the tooth brush, soap and weekly baths, are all innovations to them, useless, finnicky, expensive ones too, and it will take years of training before our boys and girls will know that "cleanliness is next to Godliness." MISSIONARIES OF THE LINTSINGCHOW STATION Page twenty-two |