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Show Lint sing Tuesday M@rning r»ct®ber 5® Bear Sisters* 1 think ®f i t , 1 will answer y© ur questien Nellie about the two pupils I had this summer • @n© of them was ^sther M®re ®f the He l i n e s s Mission* s h e was a l i t t le behiatr in some things and Mrs • S n i g ha d taken up seme things I had which Tf®len gave me f© r teaching * ®ut As M S*S was m0% well I was glad to take 2sther off her hands • and found" her t© be a very sweet attractive child • with a good mind* The ©ther girl , who only came part ®f the time was s d i t h Kirkhepe an English g©rlf ©f ab©ut the same age ,-n® a yea r older though net farther advanced • I was glad to have her ©erne en Aee@unt of ^s er never having been with any other pupil* It made her mo re a t t e n t i* a nd helped correct several errors * X now have two ypung men as pupils ? ®ne I had * a!l last year #H1 i s new a nurse in th© hospital* The ©ths? ©ne i s also a nurse with abeut the same knowledge of English %k© ^^ a more alert mind * They come every day at *T .*» 12 except operating days ,/which i s never oftener than once a week. So they get in five hours a week* The Doctor has two operations this A.M. ia her department • ®ne a l i t t le boy with stone in the bladder and the ©ther a woman with c ancer in the breat • Br. Cheong performs the first and she the second * e fo .aid ©ut l a t e r that the feast ©f last night"xwas to be at s « S l i i s * 3 and in honor of the 3_astraears so c a p i t u l a t e d and went * As there were no Chinese ,-except our h ©st present •*• it was very pleasant * He i s a Mohammedan and runs a feodshop to supply feasts t© wh©ever wants them enough to pay for them* There were four dishes of Sweetened nuts and cadies en the table when we t®ok our seats . Ther e was en® ©ther d i s k , - rice •» that was not meat . But each of the others \ there were 35 in a l l ,- were meats er eggs or some combination* ^© X remember now there lotus buds and swetened yams so that would leave but 29 meat dishes * Where there are so many of course each ©nly takes a l i t t l e ©f each di dish * As it was really an advertisement eg what h i s shop can fe things were put up in real fancy style ,otheir best, a nd their be s t is very fine indeed * We were sorry that Mrs* ^ l l i s ceuld n®t come down s t a i r s • She occasionally h a s trouble with her heart , and the night before sent her cooie over for the Doctor at i "*M# as her h©art was troubling her*lt was s t i l l goir# ba d 1 y in the raerning but down to nsrmal last evening *er neraly normal* The Academy ^-w---Y^ academy from Tihow has at last arrived **here were 21 a l l told ©n the boat and Miss Muggins the only foreigner,-not an envyable positionBut she i s plucky and tactful and g@t along though she admited at station prayers t h i s A*M# that she did not sleep much •They w i l l eccupy a 1 a rge building which was formerly th© barn" but has l a t e l y been deveted t© the women f@r t h e i r station class work* Seme years ago a man in Seattle gave the s t a t i o n t s 0 0 * 0 0 with which t e pu» chase a pair @f mules and a buckbeard for touring* TJae buckboard seen f ot warpped ©ut ©f shape and th© mules were * eating their heads of f he donor had promised t© " endow n them but h i s finances went bad and he never did. . The barn was built for them , but they were soon s o l d and the old nuckboard and harness i s now far sale and the barn i s a very useful building * t There were some 50 Chinese buodings ©n t h i s compound when i t was be t S®n® ©f them are s t i l l in use, but the most of them h ave di sapper a red and better houses taken their places • A regulation Chinese house has ©n© r®om, one door and on© window which i s covered with paper behind strong s l a t s * The door i s ef elm and very strong to r e s i s t robbers * In the reom i s the kang on which the wnax whole family sleep a table and several bandons,-long seats ma de l i j e a carpenters sawheurse a nd not much wider even at the top* The floor i s mother earth and the walls and roof ©f mud * wery meager and celd in winter and dirty a lways • ^hen abd howls i t g©ing to be better T B*F»S« |