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Show into a clean house with notning to do but unpack one's trunks. I remember when-we moved into a house where Emery was to peach, how we nad to' work to get tnings cleaned up. Myra goes on furlougn next January. Sue expects to go to Manila to stay with hr.Pendleton's sister-in-law for onree or four months, and then meet the Tuckers in Hongkong afid FO home by way of Europe. She is invited back. rue Parsons come to us in ,'larcn probably. The house in which we are living is the one tnat they 5SS- 2 natura11^ have, and for awhile I wondered just where we should to. rue ruskers and Bwjjjge both asked us to live with them , but I have a •strong feeling tha^.we are better off by ourselves. Just now the WMtiB ana ourselves are talking of asking permission to divide their big house and make a double house of it. we nave money left" from our travelling expenses and it seoms that & would be a very wise use to make of it. i WUnk .,nat we sh.nld live longer and do better work by havin- our own nome uiian by keeping the money in the bank on interest, waiting for r ^ t ? ^ e L C r l ? i 8 ;'her\vre miZht feel justified in using it. i* have had a letter fromtne hoarci recently laying that tney(Dr.,Strong)do not think it wise to bring up the matter of our being taken-on by the hoard as yet. rfrs.Matthews is doing her own cooking. She has a lovelv new oil range ana a fireless cooker. She has only one servant Yho does a33 her buying, cleaning, and the washing. She does the"rest, and enijys'it. ^ 3 t * f + i l e reet ^ ** will come to, too, as wages increase. Sue said once tnat they were saving fifty dollars a month. ve have only two servants. It will be harder for the single ladies than any one else l°t° *$Zthim±°i that sort* -^s.Matthews is a good cook, ana likes to cooic. They eat in one kitchen. It does seem sd home-v to run in there ana to find ner mixing bread. I am very fond of her. • „ --T6 ali li3te a ? d enJoy the neT'v G r i n neil man, ]\y.Chapman, so much. 5*if£iVi^t0 the life of tile compound so wail. He works verv hard and faitnfully, nas picked up a little Chinese, and /the boys at school are very fond of him. ^e have told you a little about our girl, Jung Kai, in the general letter, so I need not add much about her, except to say a^ain that *•?* Pi5S S U;»a sreat deal of ^-ppiness. I did not suppose that the word, arama!" would ever sound so sweet as it does the way she says it. one went back to the school this afternoon with Kao Jung Hsi, a WuCheiv girl who went to school at Lintsing, and who is teaching her these days, getting ner ready to enter school next spring. Jung Hsi took her over trie scnool, ana Jung Hai came back more enthusiastic than evor aoout gtf-m g to school, even i/f she could do no more Uian enter "ch'u teng ssu'. Well, I have used up the most of our rather short evening, and I 11 call this enough for one reading, for busy people who have other/ tnings to do. I aired my woollens today, and they must be put away too. Write to us mien you can. Remember us to the children. "x |