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Show •I z His blood, j u s t now, and given the antivaccine, and, tomorrow I ' l l stain the m ' t i m e a - t a d once more search for the s p i r i l l u m . How I ao mi S3 trie e l e c t r ic l i g h t to study s l i d e s at night, especially for malaria, ana such s p i r i l l a as t h i s of r e t - b i t e fever, and r e l a p s i n g fever, of which, t h e r e is much here, at limes' Ho'wQHDER, with vermin as "legion"! Our typhoid case, over whicii we I e r e tmsslad as to diagnoses for awhile, is well, and dismissed today from the Hosp• Had i t been Typhus! - with deaths therefrom, both of foreigners & Chinese workers in the Church, the past few years, with the insect as the transmottor being"legion^ also, - that wld have been more dangerous than ty- •ohoid where f l i e s are more than legion! BUT I*re talked of things medical more than I intended, exomrt 1 want to add that a f*w weeks ago I began my weekly t a l k s to women and children of the Church, on various subjects of Hygiene, and the causes of a l l these diseases, -as I did almost a l l the time I was in \7uting. WOULD t h a t the leaven might woirk i n the GREAT mass of humanity outside the Church, transmitted by the Cnurch women' ^hw HEW LIFE MOVEMENT, sponsored and promoted so strongly "oy Mr and Hrj^hinaVKai Shek, as well as o r i g i n a t i n g with them, I believe, is trying t o d o e W with expectoration in public p l a c e s , and having the s t r e e t s cleaned, e t c . Today, it" was spoken of from the p u l p i t of the Church, by the head of the Jr Middle School of the Church,, here, coeducational. t h a t do you think! The Gov of the Province, a Hosu, has sent an air-plane. here several times - 4, to he e x a c t , - l a t e l y , to make arrangements about the funeral of an. important r e l a t i v e . A firm in HongKong which c e l l s planes,went to Yunnanfu in a priYate one, b e a u t i f u l l y upholstered, etc, Ee i n v i t e d en A-merican aviator, Mr Black, Iw&ose father is a minister in the Epi a. Church, Ga) who has"been flying in Canton and neighborhood for 16 mos, and was to s a i l far' Europe, Sept 3rd", to come to Yunnanfu with him. Mr Black did, * to see more of the world," ( I n c i d e n t a l l y , he was educated at both. Harvard and Amherst, not g r a d u a t i n g ) . The Gow borrowed that plane and aviator* He makes the t r i p frm Yunnanfu to t h i s place, in l £ h r s ! Left here on* day, at 10? 30 A M; had t i f f in in Y-fu, aid his errands, including purchase of supplies for Dr Woods, h i s host here, and flew back here that P M, bringing the supplies with himf Shades of ye olden wayf6f t r a v e l ! A week ago today he was returning the 2nd time. Irene and I rode horses some 2-3 miles out to the a i r - f i e l d in the A M, before Church-time. A huge portion of the population went out to see i t » the poor on. foot; the well-to-do, either on horseback - the men; or in sedan chairs,- Thus do we a l l become educated! Today, yr father and I had a short h o ^ e b a c k !^ t r i p , for r e c r e a t i o n , - a l l of which i s too muckTcrowded to the wall". One o f \^ t h e ' r e a s o n s for being so busy in the Hosp i s because the graduate M D, a Miao, has been much away taking care of his own 4-yr old son, i l l with pneumonia.S-He" p r e f e r r e d to cere for i t himself, at home, his wife being wholly uneducated a tribes-woman. I t died, early yest A K, end he i s at Stome-Gateway, giving it a Xta\m b u r i a l , we suppose. The father is a fine man, in as far as he i s edu-ca. ted and a Xtian, removing almost a l l s u p e r s t i t i o n from his heart.We l i k e to work with him. To thinkj WHAT a waste of humanity, had the Gospel not found him and h i t people! They are SO backward as a people, and slaves to s u p e r s t i t i o u s customs. Yr father goes on, in his busy way, l i f t i n g burdens of every kind in the Hosp., and with construction problems - which ABM problems here, with no good workmen, or c o n t r a c t o r s , and the t e r r i f i c cost of g e t t i n g anything l i k e necessary materials "in" here, from the coast, or Yunnanfu, even. When out a l l day on Thurs(This i s Sun), a-H, day-, looking for sand, stone, and lumber,growing, the weather changed suddenly, dropping to 60 degrees, where i t remained, mostl y , save today, after rain, i t dropped to- 50^__degreesi ¥erve donned more clothe s , and had. a." f i r e - of ehiprcoai^iR^Sf'^pen" h r a a i e r i which i s the way the houses s e em to be he a t e d he r e - and Ho t p , too! WHY a r e n ' 1 ther e mo r e fi r e s} one queries! This e n t i r e summer I ' v e s l e o i ^ u i i d e c ^ blankets besides sheet,& often the bed-spread beside!! Temp. stayedTJargely arnd 70 degrees7" One wondens how the corn - which i s the staple product and food of the people,-matures with, such low temps. ## "Ted" Moody " v i s i t e d us t h i s weak, after a big i t i n e r a ry |