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Show and nobly met that an entire station could be saved for the American Board. Dr. Tallmon visited the San Jose Church the Sunday before she sailed, and in the few moments granted her during the service, won her hearers to be her staunch supporters, among them Mrs. Charles D. Blaney 4;: who with her sisters Mrs. Robert H • Kirkwood of Palo Alto and Mrs. Simmons of Chicago afterwards provided the Elizabeth Memorial Hospital in memory of their mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, who was a member of the W. B. M. I. when Miss Porter was sent out. At first Dr. Tallmon lived in an old granary that had been purchased and made over by the American Board in the first years of the occupation of Lintsing, and her medical work was carried on in a native house in a room scarcely sixteen feet square, poorly lighted and poorly ventilated. Even in the coldest part of winter, patients would come and sit patiently on the chapel porch waiting all day for the dispensary to npen. Often these would have to be turned away at night, that the time and strength of the physician and her assistants might be conserved. In a new compound of twenty-eight acres purchased with great difficulty from fifty owners, the American Board and Woman's Boards assembled their new buildings. '' Ming Kuo Ssu Men,'' in the fourth year of the Republic, is the legend on the face of the corner stone of the Elizabeth Memorial Hospital with A. D. 1915 on the companion stone, while on another DR. SUSAN TALLMON SARGENT [ 79 ] |