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Show and a school can be held anytime. In the occasional village, where there is a government school, she can have special after-school classes for the children who are in school. She is so unusually good with children and so eager to do this type of work that I am expecting it to be most worth while. We hear that the Robinson family have a sailing date for August twenty-sixth. We are glad that they are coming back to China but will miss them sorely in Lintsing for they are to be located in Tungchow. Tungchow had no foreign doctor and Lintsing had two so we had to divide in these days of short staff. Good word has come from Grace Breck that she is quite well and strong again and we are all happy to hear it. Valley is starting this week for her vacation and Dr. Cooke has already returned, from hers and is busy again at the hospital. The Gilberts are fine and little Marie! is gaining nicely and is an active happy baby. Cholera is raging in many parts of China so we are all being inoculated, just in case it might appear here. The epidemic is probably due in part to the bad Yangtze flood last year. Things seem 'to come in waves. Last summer there was so much malaria and in the winter scarlet fever and diphtheria. This year has brought cuts in staff and appropriations and salary cuts for missionaries and Chinese and the new plans mean harder work and being away from home all the time, but we are all entering into them with enthusiasm and faith that this will be a year of advance for the Kingdom of God and not the 6'year of the depression''. Financial depression is chronic out here, we are used to it, floods and famines and wars are all in a year's business and we know that tho there is always some special challenge, all that is asked of us is that each one do his best. Most sincerely, Alice E. Murphy |
