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Show ficient for my needs! The constant travel entailed would be most dis» tasteful to me, however much I might enjoy the work itself. The M1.- E. Board has set aside Miss -Simpson, formerly of Foochow, for the office, and that she herself claims that she can sleep as well on boat or train as in her own bed, and that she adores travelling about, would indicate that .she has especial qualifications for the task, aside from those mentioned in the resolution drawn up by the 1ST- A. O. ! ! There have been a number of changes in the station personal since I last wrote you. This winter we shall have eleven adults and three children in the compound. But we have four more members of the station at the Peking Language School,-Miss Grace Jevne, B.N., fresh from The Illinois Trainingschool, Miss Elizabeth Turner, to work with our dear Miss Gertrude WTyckoff in evangelistic work for women,; arid Mr. and Mrs. Haroldj Matthews. Mr. Matthews is to have charge of. Porter Academy for Boys, and Mrs. Matthews and baby Alden will make the house left vacant by the resignation from the Mission of the MacEachrons, once more a home we shall love to visit. Our hospital business manager and chaplain, Mr. Bradfield, left us this summer to take a more remunerative position with the Peking Union Medical College Hospital. We miss the family sorely, and hope that some time their financial difficulties may so adjust themselves that they clan return to missionary life. Jean Heminger has grown from the baby doll of last year to as winsome a wee girlie as one could wish to see. Arthur and Frankie Tucker are a romping, rollicking pair, and have mad races, around the compound road on their velocipede and Irish Mail- Someone recently said of Arthur that he could read aloud as well as the average grownup ! We shall needs look to our laurels. Letters from big brother William and. sieter Margaret at Tung-chow1 indicate that they are growing up, for the former overwhelms us with his long words (if you know his father you will not wonder from wdience this t r a i t ' ) , and the latter hints at need for an increase in her monthly allow-ance! Alice Reed, on furlough, is a missing link this year in the ladies' house chain. Mrs. Ewing joined her husband here, this summer, after eleven years in America, and we rejoice over this addition to our force No description had ever adequately told us how nice she really is! Mr. Decker, engaged in teaching Grinned College English and "square" athletics to our school boys, makes his home with the Ewings. Miss Huggins is busy with her seventy odd charges in the Wyckoff Memorial School for Girls, as is Mr. Heininger with his one hundred and twenty boys at Porter Academy. Dr. Lois Pendleton is all that we hoped for and more. She is a dear comfort in hospital and home. Mrs. Tucker is the backbone of numerous committees, and swings the beginneris'' Materia Medica class in the trainingschool, no small job!, in addition to her home cares. Dr. Francis Tucker is superintendent of the hospitals, with so many additional duties and niches, I could not begin to name them. Suffice that he fills them in the same inimitable way, as of old, to our constant wonderment. One of his latest achievements is the building of a little two-story addition to the hospital. The first floor contains two private rooms, which are at writing being occupied for the first time, by a missionary mother and her new small daughter. On that floor also is the hospital sewingroom and a tiny diet kitchen. The second floor is known as the "Wee Hoose," and has a bedroom for Miss Jevne, when she shall return to us next fall, a little sittingroom for us, bathroom, sleepingporch, and my dressingroom. I have taken untold comfort already in these two months of occupancy in the measure of privacy and "homieness" which it has afforded, after so many years with only the office for a sittingroom, and a bedroom in close contact with the Chinese patients. That was necessary in the beginnings of the work, when the nurses were all green, but now with better trained helpers, to be near at hand is sufficient. This building connects with the hospital corridor, so that I am perfectly accessible by day or might, and yet out of hearing of most of the hospital noises. Both nurses' homes are in plain view of my windows, so I am still a sufficient chaperone. At the time of our commencement, September 20, the little home was graced with the presence of five foreign nurses, and we surely did have a good time together. Miss Ingram of Peking was our speaker for the occasion, and did space permit I would like to reproduce for you her address |
