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Show 38 NORTH CHINA MISSION The Geography Lesson: Talkuhs Multiply this by forty, and you have some idea of the daily joy of the kindergarten. The story hour has been a glowingly loved time with them, when the tinies gather close to the teacher's feet, the second lable at their backs, and the largest children, whose attention can be had any day for the asking, at the rear. Birds and bees and all the little creeping things are looked upon with new eyes and many interesting observations are made and questions asked, such as "Do the other bees feed the queen bee with chopsticks Altogether it is a place which would make the Oberlin Kindergarten girls, who have made it possible, glad for every dollar they have invested in it. When we have once won the way into the heart of the child, it almost invariably means that you will be welcomed into his home by the father and mother. Children of whom we have known nothing have come in oil' the street to Kindergarten or Sundav-fchool, and have persevered in coming, and through them we have come to know the parents and in some cases they are coming into the church with blessings Peking Friends on the institutions which are taking their children off the M J"M '^"U C • streets-the only play ground Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Fei J ' - ° Luella Min-r Fei-Alice Williams Fei of the Chinese child. |