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Show and when indifference gives way to genuine interest, support will come. Our clientele, hoWeveia is composed very largely of poor or very moderately circumstanced farming folk, so large gifts will of necessity be few. Space does not permit for many details of the interesting patients who come and go, certainly not if I were to begin tales of the dear babies and children that I love so well! My interest in both hospitals is quite •impartial, as my duties' take me equally to both, since the men and women-nurseia are of course my especial charge. Sick Chinese men, I find, are no different from sick foreigners! They enjoy and appreciate a bit of petting and attention, and never once, in. my eleven years, have I been shown discourtesy in the men's wards. I perhaps might hesitate to^give the same tribute to many a public ward at home ! We see most of the diseases familiar to American hospitals, with isome others more peculiar to the Orient, as the malignant forms of long neglected tumors, Kala-azar (a spleen disease), cholera (our local epidemic for the summer is just subsiding), dysentery in varied forms, and every conceivable variety of eye diseases and tuberculosis. These come, most of them, knowing only their bodily needs. It is our privilege to try to give them more than this mere physical relief,-to send them away with at least a dawning of that Light of w^hieh they had never known. We have twenty-five pupil nurses this fall, six of whom are just blossoming out of probation. There were three in the 1922 graduating class, two men, and one woman. Alas, our Miss Chang went Home on the fourth of August, after a brave fight with tuberculosis- She had finished her training some months previous, and took her national examinations with the others, in May, to her great delight, and satisfaction of heart. She did not live to know that she passed with honor marks, as did the other two, thus keeping our record for honor graduates unbroken, to date. Of all the women nurses we have had, I give dear little Miss Chang first place in the ranks of the faithful. She had never been in my office for discipline in her four years, and in any special stress of work she was first on the spot, and the last to leave. The United M. E. Mission for whom she was being trained has tost an earnest consecrated worker, and we miss her sorely from our midst. Of the two men graduates, our own Mr. Chao is training for our laboratory technician work, and Mr. Ma has gone to Lint-sing Hospital, for which post he was being prepared- It fell to my lot this year to set the questions in Anatomy for the national examinations, and therefore it was my privilege to correct the 147 sets returned to me in early June. It was an interesting if laborious task. Dr. Marion Yang came down from Peking to make me a visit and help me, for of course the papers were all in Chinese character. I can read with fair readiness a good writer's paper, but for the poor ones a native assistant is an absolute necessity. We had many a good laugh over the absurdly impossible answers given to some of the questions. It i's evidently as difficult a study for Chinese nurses a,s for the average foreign nurse, and in some instances a succession of poor answens from students of the same •school would indicate that the fault was not all on the pupils' side. It takes, to my mind, a teacher above the average, to make anatomy "either intelligible or interesting. True it is, that many things in China seem to go by opposites, but even a Chinese femur cannot articulate with the radiusi, to form a ball and socket joint! To learn that bodily heat is generated by the friction of the red blood cells against the walls of the arteries was enlightening! It would seem scarcely necessary to take a four year course either, to learn that we breathe thru our noses rather than our mouths because our noses have two holes, whereas our mouths have but one! There were, however, some very fine papers amongst the lot. We think we have made a step'in progress with our trainingschools out here this year, in the election of a general national secretary for the Nurses Association of China, of whoise duties one of the chief will be inspection of trainingschools. She is expected to> visit every registered trainingschool in China at least once between our bi-annual Conferences, standardize cur-riculums, and keep the teaching staffs up to date. She will visit all other schools enroute as wTell, and .spur them on to qualifying for registration. I was offered this position last spring, but I declined with sincere thanks! To have to spend several weeks on a steamer once in seven years is suf- |