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Show he's right if he only knew how many camels I've met just outside my gate or between here and school. According to the old Chinese calendar tonight is the Lantern Festival, so we are not very far past the Chinese New Year. This is the first year since I've been in China when the Chinese New Year parsed without a single firecracker. (Yes, last year, too, when I was in Shanghai listening to big guns.) The orders which forbade a noisy celebration here were really carried out. Everything is being done to keep the city in an orderly condition and to prevent any kind of an "incident". The Japanese do not seem to be coming in this direction very rapidly but there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what future events may be,-so much that the treasures have been | J removed from the museums in the Forbidden City and are being sent south to what is considered a place of greater safety. If this letter had been written the middle of November as it should have been, I'd have closed with a "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year". It seems to me the world would be a nicer place if every month in the year there were the same warmth of friendliness and well-wishing which we all have around the holiday season, so just to help that spirit along I send you a "Happy New Year" for the end of March! Cordially yours, %j J Mabel I. Huggins. 1 ~7 i |