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Show -dormitories and dining^rooai«,will bo oonang soon. Iho building will not be'readv for use next fall "but we 'hope to .get into it before the !.*..• With a net: building in sight we are planning to add tho last year of higher primary to our course, s^v. that those who can not go on to our school in Techou can finish this courseoRr»rc, It ic a nrMtj good education for a girl fco have finished the seven vr-ars ?f primary work, and wo hone thero will be many mere new who will * '* .;i"to complete the g***.,cjonvgo"; • • -' *•' "•' '• y £ ao* : ;ao.'.. -, Hiss iv'ar^ythc teacher of the throe lower gralcs, vy r Eood^nractioe. for the girls or tho highest class to help out too with a cj'ass~avr-^n»oy.I examined tho classes as saon ag they wore ?*eydy so that-by* the tine the higher grades wore ready to be examined I co-aid be free to oversee them, The Chinese teachers have not heal normal training and do rot know the many ways of making the lessons livelv and Interesting for the children, so it was a great pleasure to "ca tit?, be yb J a 'to g\\ e then eono of this extra work, Tho children who arc bright get along reasonably well with the attention the ordinary Chinese teacher-.gives theaybut thesewho are slew in certain subjects are not helped as they should bo. fho Chief work of the foreigner in a school with untrained teachers:'.i* toysapartaao^and I have had very little time for that this •year., When Hiss Tallmon returns next full I Mope, to have more time to help both teachers and pupils* host of tho girls k?>oIr. home thread for crocheting this sumncr and I was especially glad to give it to some who could not possibly cone otherwise. They are doing very good work and are so pleased to be able to earn some of their school money, The girl who studied half time and crocheted half time this semester earned most of her food money so we have courage to go ahead and plan for others to do the same thing next sanestor« Ihc work at the chapel Sunday School has been kept going by the teacher" aad pupils and Bible women. The average attendance has been thir^y-atgnv-ohildrcn and five or six women,which is. smaller, than last year top* wo have the satisfaction of knowing that it isn* | so much of a "show51 fee the people an1* more and those who come are quite regular in attendance, We have v'woro definite He'©il1rseHnv^. ap, that after memorizing a certain set of songs* payers, and verses tho pupils start in r~0is^lng~ttio^k'3&5cm.'3 of the £ogiTtaov'a Co*o^n o, wl?,,,i y-. hnvo, .beer translated into Chinese, when they fin:!oh the memorising coarse they are given an especially nice set of colored post cards strung onto ribbon,which some of our hind friends took the trouble to prepare in America and sent out,and they also recline one cf those "rewards" when they finish reading -a lesson,which usually takes thorn several months! Wo now have eleven children who have finished the first course,about one hundred and ton children on tho list of those who havo memorized Gome selections,and four women who have road or memorised selections. 'The-women are very bashful af?sut coming up to be examined on what they havo studied for they fell that they are so slow as compared with the children,but those have had the courage and are going on tc learn more, Gome of the little boys have eorae into cur boysr school and nana of the rirlc have come into the lay school which was opened at the chapel this semester, a:ml their parents are sometimes seor a-'- car church services aloe, so wo foel that our efforts are. worth whale slid hope for even greater things in the future, T/hon tho school girlG went her o they carried with them cc-ios of* hynno,prayers,vorsec, Cundfay School cards,etc,,to u~c in helping their .parents and neighbors,, Gone cf thoa arc surrounded •toy childron^aKo love to corao and 3 lot en to the Bible stories, always clamorinr fcr aictura cards,which are given whoa to ey memorise scmethin, Other gialo fine? 'were: in their homes axn- tho parents and granl-yar.aa" aunts,cousins,sisters-in-law,and niecoc, Xa cae foyily where the mother r,r.\- _ ,-a'yra are botrr Yaurch riombers and tho -two Laughtors are in our i r -e^ccl.tT-ey hel^na •-rynr-noaiing^Tory nigjh-t and invite all the rrt^ihc ln7~7*3 hope that fre rilfls 'all »'«©£•; an. rj§ro feel that It ie %l , Y - /l yyy-caa cf V- rio lives to pace on tc of: ere wjiat they 'save receive!, j±7i vru net -:r?" :'::1 then and fcr all c:? uo in Christ's worts hers. 3th el Uay SiWtg |