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Show Dr. Vincent Wagner's Visit to Lintslng Language School Peiptng, China January 5th, 1930. I am sending thie letter to both ends of the state from here. Although I am sending the original to Clare, I just have to include father and mother and ask them to share with Hubert and Bessie for it is about Lintsing. I really feel now that I have come to China* How thrilling it is to be ushered into a Chinese house by one.who remem» bers you all and told that this room was mother*s bedro-om* to watchr the coolies carry water from a hole in the ice just where they used to, to take pictures of the ground where the hospital once stood wiih the Mohammedan Mosque in the background, to watch the oíd ferry cross the river, to climb the stone steps of the Pagoda and when you mention the incident of the dog jumping off, to have your guide remember it too. But most thrilling of all to feel the warmth and love in the hearts of five Chínese, who remember kindness thru all the'se years and who are faithful to the Christian Paith thru Boxer times and all the recent trouble. Dear oíd Mrs. Sung, still Bible woman to the women*s hospital, was all I had heard about her and more. ' When. she carne into the women*s ward, the Chinese doctor asked her which of the two wai-kuo jen (Mr* Gilbert orí) was hsiao Wei tai-fu. She looked from one to the other several times and then indicated me saying that I looked like lao Wei tai-tai (my mother). She was so happy to think that she had guessed rightJ She laughed and laughed. Mr. Gilbert said that it was worth going to Lintsing just to see her joy at seeing me. She was Clarencets aman, but she remembered equally well Hubert and Bessie and repeated their Chinese ñames. I am sending the pictures 1 took to Dr. Alma Cook for her to write the correct Romanizations on the backs of them all and they will come along later. We left Tehsien for Lintsing about 8:30 A.M. on Monday, Dec.30 in the famine relief Dodge (a *27 sedan). Beside Mr. Gilbert, Dr* Tucker, the two younger Tucker boys, Arthur Smith and Francis, and the chauffeur (a load), there were 3 Chínese (2 children and the pastor at PangChuang, Mr. Liiu, and I (9.in all). To say that we were crowded is putting it raildlyi We did not suffer from the heat because it was below freezing. Our extra clothes, blankets and baggage kept us from hitting each other. We did not go thru the city of Tehsien ñor enter the city wall, but passed thru the south suburb. The oíd,Chinese street wás narrow. We had to back in order to make a córner. We were soon on the famine relief road to Lintsing. It was wide, had no shárp turns and was higher --than-Jr.he-ff!,aln Xold -3mads..jir^helow. the .leve 1 of the plain-worn down so they look like ditches or cañáis)but had no gravel and was deeply rutted by the Chinese carts. Dr.Tucker said they tried to keep the carts off on a side road, but could not. Then they tried to introduce wide-tired wheels so as to avoid such outting up of the road. This al so failed for though they gave the wheels away, the wider tire wedged in the narrow ruts of the oíd roads and the animáis could not pulí them. So we went about 25 miles an hour and. bumped the ruts i Although there is a daily auto stage now to Lintsing, many of the animáis pulling the carts were frightened by the auto. Whether it was a mulé, a donkey,a horse,a water buffalo,or a cow, or some com-bination of them,the_drivers would just have time to jump off their carts,run to the heads of the animáis and hold their hands over their eyes,or put their heads under an arm so as to cover their eyes> and hold on for dear life. Even so, many bolted off the road,dragging their drivers and carts with them. Occasionally we had to.stop, be* ••>' cause they would stampede in different directions blocking the road. They usually had least trouble if we could get by quickly. One modern feature was a grade separation at the railway-a good thing when one sees the constant stream of travelers. The carts were loaded with all manner of things.» There was considerable hauling of cotton and some hauling of sacks of grain. There were many pilgrims returning after a summer*s work in Manchuria for New Years at home. Dr. Tucker pointed out one of the dirt banks from v^hich bandits he Id h.im up once last summer.. The country seemed bare and clear of bandits this trip. Just 50 minutes after we left Tehsien we drew'up at the historie Pang Chuang church, the.last two miles being a turn out.ñorth along |