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Show 32 NORTH CHINA MISSION Preparing Salt Vegetables Girls' School Taikuhsien which also fiil out the general budget of the school. Mention has already been made of the village in the PANGKIACHWANG district where the Christian schools receive a grant in aid from the government, so making them independent of mission funds. The running of the boarding department of these schools is no HOUSEKEEP- small matter. We have pictures of a TUNG-ING CHOW missionary "supervising the buying of bean curd and salt turnip, or casting her New England housewifely eye on some dust-spots left by an unwary sweepingshift. " In LINTSING there has been an attempt at practical domestic economy, shaping itself in such questions as: "How many bundles of sorghum stalks will be needed a week to cook the food for twenty hungry girls? How much millet, beans, cabbage, onions,eggs,oil, salt,etc., will serve to satisfy their appetites ?" The Memorial Academy in TAIKUHSIEN once more tried student management for these details, with satisfactory financial results, but a scrap between the committee and the rest of the boarders. Satisfactory board has been furnished at about two-thirds of the cost of board in the most reasonable schools in the capital of the province, and less than half the cost at the coast. "Satisfactory" because most of the rich boys of tiie school prefer the Second Class board, i that mentioned above) to the first class, so that the first class kitchen has gone out of commission. So, with eyes trying to pierce the future for the years just ahead, wc are working at the task of training the men and the women who shall lead our portion of the church of China to greater things than foreigners can ever accomplish. And with this work, there is the constant service rendered by our schools to the evangelization of China as they attract outside boys by their more thorough work, and bring them, thorough months and years of association, to know the Christ who is the head and inspiration of all of it, the one who w-ent abo.it "teaching and preaching" in Galilee. |