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Show another for those not so ill, and will hope to do our part in educating China for her fight against the ''white plague''. I am very fond of-this young woman and her charming little niece and nephew who come with her. They belong to a well- to-do • family in the city. It is two years since she first came to have her eyes treated. See how beautifully her clothes are made, what fine needle work. That she did before her eyes were bad. She can see new to thread a needle, but can never hope to do fine work again. I am afraid her elbow is tubercular,, though there certainly was some other infection too. The abscess was very painful, and pointed here in front of the elbow. Such quanties of necrosed tissue have come away since we opened it. The pain and inflammation are nearly gone but the elbow remains swollen. This little nephew of hers has tubercular disease of the spine. Fortunately the lesion is high where there is little motion and weight. He takes his medicine like a man. He was very much pleased when I told his grandmother he must eat good food. He reported it to his mother, as soon as he got home. She teasingly sa-ld, ' 'Now surely the doctor meant that you should eat millet mush. ' ' (very common food). ''No'', he insisted, ''she said eggs and meat. ' ' His sister is a delicate, sweet-faced little lady, isn't she? She comes not because she is ill. But because she wishes to learn to read, and while they wait, Mrs. Chou the Bible woman is glad to teach her. There are no girls' schools in the city except ours. She would like to attend day school, but she lives too far away, and she is only nine, too young to attend boarding school, even if her family were willing. They are not Christians. What is the matter with this pale little girl? Hear that, whooping cough-no possible mistake! And all the little children in the waiting room have been exposed. Well, there is no use worrying about it. But we will tell the aunt not to expose others, though our telling will make little difference. Children in this land, when still very young, usually have all contagious diseases from German measles to small pox. This old woman has rheumatism, and this one efizema, but the laifir case in not a serious one. She says her disease is caused by a spirit that possesses her. She has had the spirit for many years. Sometimes it gives her one kind of sickness, sometimes another. She has visited all the temples in her region, and burned incense and paper money before all the gods, but is no better. She has never before heard of the -God whose delight is not in burned offerings and sacrifices, but |
