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Show - X i ..•-;,-.;hina . ov.l, ,1939 Aear friends fajra ayi* Let x ; ore and now,at f/arcaret's typewriter close to her l i t t l e office stove on t h i s quiet Junday evening,beg you a ll not to try to pull the t r i c k Mm almost got away with! Yesterday afternoont i a t e , l cam© home from calling on ''ar.^iret Dow recotoeri«£ from a tonsilectomy in the xXXC,and on Ellen stud ley, who has been U flniah a few days,to find our boy in greet excitement over a call from some xhiao sh£%"~, from .aaeriea and for Fenchow,who had l e f t xodbye for me. Goodbye indeed! 1 puffed ux ^-;ethfs s t a i rs to i .xer that ^mma had indeed come in from Tientsin an hour or so bororop'ind that she and ISrnest were down at t i e stntiojx opine to t x x - f e r her t x ; TAX ir t u x for ttr night tirmin "or ahtfy-ehi& chuang. YO I turned h a s t i l y and downed tho s t a i r s , to the tune: of *Xnd she raised :1000 for the hospital,-->*nd "500 for medicines* 1 fro-i s?-athson to the station, here vie soon found out that her hitherto lucky trunks had not turned up, il. Jo s|J© c-t 10 back again,-an e v-aked and talked I A&JL iy she saw a lot of xhinxx fit ex A . • n and we robbed uXi emtoen%l*d ( i t being ^<md-Kf '- §*t together as .my XiXits as possible for her to take in,and now she is off a-gala, xid the morel which 1 hope i s plain i s , when you come back fro., furieni 1 I f * trj slickly to s l i ^ thr-mxi in too much of H hurry, " ' i f i , I { xd it xfr*x , . » t. . e l l tshe looks more blooming than ever. And so did Harry Martin,whe'n he cane cheerfully along frora his short leaven If you) can a l l look as husk;/ as they do,people won"1""! even notice our white h a i r s . I have been thinking a l o t about you a l l , these weeks,evan i f i have not written individual l e t t e r s . And wasn«t the nMir-rorff a sort of a l a t t e r ? I won?t need to retention any of those items. Just bring you up to date a bit,though many of you have unimpeachable private sources of information! Carolyn aewall seems to have gotten over her fall and s t i f f neck,and i s supposedly waak-ending in Tunghsien. Alls* IX s t i l l looks worn after the frightful strain of the strike in Goodrich,of which you must a l l have heard. It had many roots and sources and came pretty near blowing everything skyhlgh, p a r t ly bacaus© too many people tried to put the f i r e out. It is a lone and complicated story,but in the end only 81 g i r l s felt i t impossible to return, (they made this Chao t'ai so their headquarters for over two weeks,}and .they have hmen eased in as audi t o r s at four city schools. It is hoped that no loophole feas been l e f t for ' authorities to investigate, alice has set those still in school to sewing wadded garments for the l i t t l e g i r l s in the five g i r l s ' refuses which are in outxxelping Oh'tX area,and I imagine i t is proving an excellent outlet. Jim's Winter Giass opens t&is week,and he has g£§sT p^an$* Mi. nraj b*-ab\* -fn w r k Irs some of the B -h refugees v - |
