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Show SCHOOL OF MANY FRIENDS Lintsing, Shantung, China. Jan.9,1923. Dear Edith, ^snjrel^r d i d n ' l mean to l e t all this tiling ;co by without sen ling yon a word,but 1 seem to be just as bad as ever about g e t t i n g l e t t e r s written, i hare a nice shelf here by my t a b l e in th^schoo] offi*e and 1 do get more l e t t e r s written than I otherwise would but s t i l l 1 always seem to be so far behind. There are so many things I wanted to say to you that I waited u n t i l I should hare time to write a proper l e t t e r , a s I do with my home l e t t e r s , b u t now l am just taking a sheet an L s t a r t i n g anyway. present? i t i to thank yon. \fhnn i t reach an eggnog wit way to put up cad. en f a r , an I lovely of you Unfortunately a l l the chil I cook and boy t h ^ s t a t i o n ov F i r s t I must thank you Tor my nice birthday s just Lreadful to/hink that i have waited all this time I t got rather wet on the way an I. so was melted some ed me,but we made i t up and i t tasked so good,and I had h that in it an I i t was so nice. That surely i s a goo I the "makings.1! Tor a cool drink. And thanks for the nice a l l the f r u i t and n u t s , e t c . , t h a t came, in your box. I± was remember to us and. you may be sure we appreciate i t. we ren for couldn'fc have the people over on New Year's because had the measles,an 1 now we have had to dismiss the sambl#ine; and I ion' t "'mow when we will da.ro to have or,but we will manage it sometine. The boy we s t a r t e d in before we went north bhot the job was too hard and Han't come back,so i that i would try Ching Te again and he did so n i c e l y , u n t i l Yr, Shan said that he and Samaon were gambling with the cook that Florence had l a s t . It seems that he got s t a r t e d l a s t year over at her house an.I that there was much gambling in the 04Mf$0 yard,but that i t is stopped now and they do Lt at Ts'ui M Ch * eng**s and t h i s cook's and other places, Samson went with him,and when we found it out we warned then, and everybody talked to them,but then they went at i t again and we decided that it was time to dismiss them. Samson was so awfully careless that it seemed probable that the only way to cure him would be to f i r s him for a time, so they have both scone. Naturally we are sorry to have such a tliini; happen and .mother prospective cook l o s t , f o r a time at l e a s t. Yfl Shan s a i l that he would do the cooking for us,not that he could learn how to Lo.it but just to help us out,-which of course means he would l i k e to be cook all the time. He simply cantr Lo i t tho,and is s o ' c a r e l e s s about things that we hate to have the new boy sec him. The new boy is Tzu Ming's son,Ying Chieh,about whom we have heard so much,an I t h i s being his f i r s t LayfI can1 tell mucli ab'out him except that lie s t a r t s out "well and seems to be able to use his heal, we have asked Samson's older brother to come but he wants Samson taken back, so ire ion't know whom we will try for cool; now. i t c e r t a i n l y is d i s g u s t i n g to have to lismiss servants for gambling,but the teachers wore not at all enthusiastic whsu Mr.Eastman# suggested that there be some sort of evening gathering place at the new men's s t a t i o n class |