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Show two-hundred dollars In homes visited and were sure it was need ed,but the way _ to deal with this withered crowd taey felt was to leave. It was night when the 1 came and theyi^GaW over the wall and filled the court before Shu Lan and Ruth saw them. Then Shu Lan went out and tried to get them to go and it was some j 1OD» Final ly she said Wen Jung and Shu Ling and Mrs Shen got down and kowtow-, ed to them "in the moon-light J So that was why the very next week 1 went and took Shu Lan again. It was examination time for the women and we did that the first day and then went on with the investigating and I was so glad too that we had gone back. The roofless houses is an image that comes to mind when I think of the winter (trip we took,this time is added the pictur« °^ °^rts pX oiled high with household goods that were oeing sola ,and 01 tne grainTcrocxs (are kangs crocks?) Instead of holding yellow millet filled with poplar leave:, being solked in wat^r to* get out the bitter taste S 6rchards were cut out for fuel alf-lfa fields [had the leaves stripped off,every where there were people with'baskets looking) for weeds to cook and boys and men with bags gathering leaves The trees we|re broken and often only tufts or leaves at tne ends oi branches. The apricot C|?op had seen dietroyea with the taxing oitne leaves. We saw only a few women spinning thread and only one. or twn weaving in that r region of cloth-making,for they do nothave the material Mostly the looms werd idle in most homes the green green gruei they were cooxing nad almost no millet withit. G-rouad peanuo sneiis nd chaff were common and ground Dark . Very few had any Dread. m some or the homes the rooms were pare oi every salable article, in others there were still nice cactus and e\i- tney had lit tie food,hut we felt that the boxes stooa for resources anyway ana helped the peoole less, ,/e saw Wang Shu Kuei and her mother. ShuKuei has been married, but* lives mostly atjhome and is a dear bright girl with a laugh coming so easily and tears near the surface too. She is wlllinf and thoughtful and so ready to do little errands ana such arungssShu Lan says she has hsin yier They two especially!asked to send you their love. One day we visited the village where Shu Kuei's mother-in-law lives and went to that home She went with us The mother is a widow with two sons and they looked fcind but Shu K will doubtless have to be the manager.They are "lao shih She wept Uye. i when told that we dould not let her come in to school. Why did Wen Hsin do such a thing as to marry her off! -te yy ^ 7 (f•"*+***> Cbtety I think there were as many as 500 people at the Sunday service therea at Sung An Ts'un Jhe men staid in the yard and let the women have the room and the speakers table was at the door. There were four speakers who took turns. They say Wang *en Sheng laads when he is at home. He has studied with Miss Moberg. NeitheV of us went to Wei Ksien for we had word that Missel, was sick. She went to SJhenTe Fu to "resfand I had a postal from there asking for vour address,so she Is at least able to write. ' Sunday afternoon we visited, a village where Miss M.has opened a poor school-the puoils live at home but are given five coppers a day to help with food The older boys went to the church at S.A.Ss.and as tney went along the road* homewardbound Inarched in file singing rustiljj the songs they have been learning, it was a sight to remember. We were in the cart just behind them I ought to mention [the fields of wheat that we passed for they were in good condition and amid the poverty it was a comfort to see such hopeful signs ot a crop this month. But years will pass before thay can buy again tools and farm animals and getback to the place they were before this famine. One of the men who came to Sung An Ts'un that Sunday P.#,nas been your^^ patient in the hospital . He has only one leg and walks with a crutch. His Kao Ping Ch'ing aril his home at Ching Chen 12 11 from Sung An Ts un. He had gone to church at some other village and on his way home met someone who told him I was at S.A.Ts. so he came that distance jto see me. He sends warm greeti ings toyou. There are eight people in his family,big and little and we gave him Five dollars. His fine kindly face was one to inspire confidence and hfes gratitude was to God for this provision for tfieir need. It did me good to see him. I wish I could remember after these days inore of our talk. I had the caru take him ..art way home and he said"Mr ndris always saw that I nad a lilt uoo Another face that I cannot forget is tjhat of a 18 year old boy who pp. came to ask helo for his old grandmother. Ke/stood so straight and slender |