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Show In the evening christm s Day we had supper with the Holdings and then sat before the f i r e in their nice new home. We put on branches from the Christmas tree to brighten the blaae. So mat$ things ti f i l l the days, with loving thoughts of you in ever:r one, . , snow has fallen, a lovely heavy snow that, puts great hope into people' s hearts that the winter wheat will bring a good crop* But the snow brings great suffering too, to the ¥ery poor, who have l i t t l e to protect them from the cold. Did. I t e l l you about the woman e i th the three l i t t l e children wlao came to us in the Fall? Her father-in- law was one of the church gate keepers here bet died last Spring. Ilex hus'-and died of cholera in the summer, when her wee tmW wae a few days old, so she was a p i t i f u l young thing indeed. She herself was very sick and could not feed the baby, so i t was given to another woman who >e own child had. died, and adopted by t hat family. Her oldest ohild ia in a home for d e s t i t u t e children and she and the wee g i r l naive t r i e d to get along with what she could earn t a t t i n g fshe is very slow) and keeping the f i r e up in the t a t t i n g school room, hmst Sunday word caa^e that her own mother had frozen to death in the cold. Poorly fed and poorly clothed and r e a l l y sick, too, she had. no r e s i s t ance. She had been here for help just a week before ad since her hus-;a band had a Red Croso job, and her l i t t l e g i r l was in the home, I thought I ought to help some one poorer. That i the heartbreaking part, that our s a l l help is so p i t i f u l l y small. I aa hoping we can do more. The Sargent ward at the hospital is a happy plao, with trie 26 l i t t l e tots of the Home, a l l in Hue and a l l so dear and friendly and so appreciative of a ball game or a l i t t l e time given them to sing., A Ball for Babv and other songs. One had whooping cough tnis week, so I fear they are a l l in for i t . Poor l i t t l e John #8 who had his toes froaea eff last winter, has been in bed with his foot al± swollen up, He i s verv lovable. There beds are on straw in the floor, so there-i s no danger of their rolling out. . Another 14rel7 ^ ^ ^ V ? ! l i t t l e Gold - she is only I I or I I but her step-grandmother has a l ready married her off iftto a very poor family where lor a M °* *» she has lived with her husband' s old randfeather a.d the twoha/e be^ad we knew her because she i s a regular pupil at the Bamooo st Sunda- School?" Her husband i s a soldier and neer at b m . « • • Mm ft kf livinc and his father is usually away, so whoa the old grana- I S not 11 viug ana n*» xmr*jt ZZJi2+* annp f__v say that aiore than father died awhile ago, Gold was left alone. ^.ney sa^ »tl - once mea. who buy g i r l s have t r i e d to get her ^ Jmoe neighbors har e protected her and we are m glad te mm her from sac £ £ ^ t e ^ ^no i s older than the other children and a great nelp m lookiiu, a.. te„ l i t t l e ones. The men who are helping with the Red Cross road have come. Ca-ot. imw , an Englishman, is the engineer. There i s also a Lieut, Bogaxt of the U.S.Marines and Dr. Stearns yd/, besides the bashful nrivate and our own men. It is interesting to see "folks" and we ; r e so rejeiced that the road kuilding is going on as well asit i s. They say the f i r s t plan was to a, .ploy 10,000 ^ n now^bey ^B asking for 20.000 and Mr. McEchron believes i t will be S0#000 before they o-rt taiUi-n Eve-n 70, we fear many a home will go unhelped, end the people die of starvation. The Chinese are siving too. So.e^al oooi e t i e s are helpin :, mom *Un« have come for joi^t a i . t r « w U ° n w " » the catholics. A French l a t t o l U l » i N » « • *• ^ * • E a b t mn about the matter and they conversed in Chinese. Jan. 11th - Today a s i f t of 5150 has o ^ f « * B * l l t o . > of the •*>*•,. so more can b a ^ e d fl. £ • g th? f ^ f t l e ^ 4 i s plenty lar e enouyn for more, AH warn |