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Show SCHOOL OF MANY FRIENDS LINTSING, SHANTUNG, CHINA. (Now x have come home and find other paper here! I keep He Shih Fu busy carrying my machine back, and forth,but it is too cold in my office to write there at night.) -•«•-•.- asked Mrs.Shen to call, a woman she said did good sewing and instead of getting her,^rs.Wu persuaded her to bring her up! She comes every Monday afternoon with the work she has finished and I give her enough for another week} 1 probably pay her more than if she were working by the day but there is no place to have her come to sew,so i make a sort of estimate of the time spent and then can tell by the selling price whether it is too much .or not.Il think 1 am paying her rather high but if we can make on it,i will ^e glad to give it to her for she seems to try very hard. Her little boy is in school and ot course she is anxious to earn money.- Ov.r knitting machine is kept busy by Ch'in Shu Te and Chang Ch'un Chin: 1 thot those were two girls who could learn and perhaps make it go. Shu Te does indifferent crocheting and i thot perhaps she was big enough to use the machine well, an I she does but not as well as ^h'nn Chili* We have Chree pairs of socks made and the. fourth is about done,wh44h doesn't take into consideration the ones that have been started and then ripped out! i wish x had some place where Ch'un Chili could come during vacation to Work on it,.for i don't want her to forggt how to do it and she might learn some ne\r things,but I haven' such a place and so I day hare to leave the machine at the school. Hfe will use it all spring and then perhaps have some good tilings to sell, in the fall, it works very well but the socks are all of the same number of stitches,so it depends entirely upon the yarn as to what size the socle really is, except when we knit knit-and-purl all the way thru,which makes a sock in the stiff wo$3 of the size x can wear. Mrs.Eastman says she would like some socles for the girls but I am not sure that Jre con get any that will be small enough. I wonder if Ruth, told you who our teachers are:- ^ien Chu in the assembly room with four grades,the third and fourth going out to the first recitation room to recite to Ch'un Hsiang; Wang writing for me all morning and teaching Ituo Wen and essays to the fifth and sixth,and writing to all,in the afternoons} Mei Chen in the kindergarten with the^first and second grades,with Hsiu dung helping her in the mornings ^ and Ts'ai &enir at Kuo-Tzu-iislang with her mother and. doing very "well. The first and second grades were so large that we had Hsiu Jung keep the second grade over here in the morningsjbut she couldn'^ manage them very well and we have just sent theirs back to the kindergarten again. Mei Chen isn' ** much of a disciplinarian but finds it much easier than she did last fall. We have sixty-two boarders,-at least,until Ruth sent two of her girls home who were homesick and not doing well,- and there are about twenty or more day pupils,down thru the first grade. The day pupils enjoy the opportunity of playing in our yard and they seen- to behave very well,tho we have to watch the school-house womewhat. We had a special sent out which we are going to use in making the kind of swing we saw in Japan,-the long board swung low so1" that a bunch of children can get on at once-, and the |