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Show SCHOOL OF MANY FRIENDS Lintsing Shantung, China. Jure 6,1025 Dear Mrs. Éll i; Yes,Alma t o l i me your message but school fias just closetl arídl 1 was too bus y to to any writing of for kuei Ying,she has been t rryyi inrgR tto o curry *~> ciislike almost as raueh as the other thing $^¡H y she has managed things that changed ore bit,but is just trying to get by ^f*. letters.- As f :vcr which and. x am su re ft?om she . hasn f t so she can go on to school next year. 1 have exactly the same feeling about her as i did hefore and am sure that going to school will not change her as she needs to be changed. She liad heen most awfully careless about everything an 1 doesn't do things as she is supposed to any more than she did,all of which comes from her idea that she knows better than any one else what is best to be done,and she is góing to do her own way regardless of anything. if she ever comea back here with a tíhinese principal,! know she will malee íihem a great deal more treuble than she has me because they will not talk to her as i have and insist as far as they can. I certainly can not under-stand what malees her that way and hope w% never get anyone else back like her* i know this all sounds horrid but it is the truth and I can'^* say anything else. She has fallen down on ever3/thing she has tried to do and mostly because she will not ] t inyorre help her.- She has, i think,$17 here in my hands: what shall i do with it? She paid me nothing from the three months salary that i just gave her. - She aáked about eking «xaiainations and i have sent for them for her and for ipiu Chfun asiang,who will go there instead of Áechou if she can naake the gracleM the speaking teachers knew certainly is i am glad tha iuiei Ying has know,were ver Kuei ühen,who probably teac be a gcol opp It was lovely of you to write the card about contests. 1 didnft oven know there was to be such,but the about it and everybody was pleased and proud. Chfi Mei Chen a nice girl and it is a shame that her mother ever engaged her. t she will be back again next fall,to take the grades that had. Her father and brother,who are cook and coolie here you y riueh pleased when 1 told them. They are so disappointel over just graduated here and isn!w geod enough to go en,but she will li the iittle school in Yu-fang-er next fall and that ought to ortimitv for her. i am going with the Houldings to Kuan ^«o kj.ng this summer,so will miss you. I am sorry it doesn,b happen that iWabel II. will toe there too but i am sure we will enjoy the rest anyway. We plan to go all the way to ^aotingfu by boatj hope we don'b roastl school closed last Thurday: the food money gave out but we go| thru the lessons. i have been head-ovep-heels in work for a month but hope to get a breathing spaee soon. There is still lots of clearing up to do at school but not much repatring. which there are no endl I niust stop and get at soné more letters,-of kovingly, &tá¡/i- |