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Show L i n t s i n g Shantung,China, Feb,IB 1920 t'Drtfr Susie and Ben and l l i o s r a l l i o D0Sty^ low nice i u was to nave una iw« iwain JJJOU ..,, ' "!• ».•.,„ ... ....-., .-,-*» -••',,,... b„ . .• .,- hlce to re fe-nb'eifc* a l l the aood tines* i r o n a u and one g u e s t s 01 unao uay. «, w* tuvc u~ ,., .- ........ ..,*..- «, and l o v e l y things you a r e always planning for p e o p l e . I cOp iane p i c ru w v n b ' i ' "• '° •"" answers rbich jars Koulding ^^4 and Mrs Helliwell got ready for our Station supper last week. Both schools ^ are out ,and Mr Koulding went to the Educational Conference in Tsinanfu. So JMMrs H. staid at the East House with the Helliwells those days. It was Miss ^Brown's birthday (Feb. 13) and we had candy in her honor. Mr Box (aB.A.T.manJ.^ wasthere too so i t was quite a. party-even tho Mrs Ltoe and l i t t l e Gertrude Elisabeth were not able to attend. « Miss B.said they sent you word of her coming, bhe is such a lovely baby,with dainty features and soft dark hair .'and sleeps and cries ana does just what a beby should! She was born Feb.lO-so is a week today. It is too dark I fear to take her picture,but I am going to take my kodak over at noo?? and see. We are having Station Prayers at noon ,and at Eastman's this week. Day after tomorrow is Chinese New Years,of course every one is busy! Shih H.S. announced an early morning prayer meeting fpr, that day. All are glad over two light falls of snow. We had thought'spring really here. It is according to the Chinese calander-and can't be far away,for the snow is nielting-faat. -A, bi^ flo-ck^f "sha chi er " has lighted out on the jilfalfa-they look almost like quail. This A.M. on my way to the Station class rooms I saw Lien Chun ,Cheng Chun and Pao An having such fun with a kite.-an 8 cornered kite of LienChun's manufacture. Every one asks for you and sends greetings.lt would take a whole book to tell of each by name! LateriyP.K. Both Shu Li and Ting Lie&n Fang are here and bo%th ask me to add their special greetings. They are drinking tea and eating ginger-snaps. Shu Li is telling me about a trip to visit some women in the-south end of town.(I wanted her to &o in your chair ,but she ran off early before i t could come) They have been studying less than a year and she went to tell them unfit to do on boa Xear* and says that she will *9t (over) |