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Show •wer í \ o í y ,f) í \ 3n fon £ r l À *< Tf With my stioulder-and that means just even with yours. I told him I would tell you how much he had grown. The boys school lamp is lighted about five each A. M. for study hour. I used to see it mornings but now I have moved to the west room and we are planning that room and Ethels for the Ellises when thay get h here. Isn* t it good tha# they are to come ! I wonder if they will be with yo about the time this letter gets there. If they are give them lots of good wishes for the trip and joyful greetings frorn me. Ruth is back and saysn Are you writing to your sister? Then don't forget the brushes you told me to remind you of!" You know the kind we used for washing potatoes-those littie brushes. We have wanted some a dosen times. If you will ask Ira Ellis to bring some and let me pay her I will be glad,or you buy them and let me send you something you want from here. Six or seven will about satisfy my appitite. ! Ruth says w/fill that leave any to spare? I think I will want one or two!" If Mrs Ellis has gone before you get Íbis will wou please mail me one! And reaily six is enough for us all,if her trunk will hold them without too much trouble. Mrs Eastman asks me to say that if this is in time she would be very glad to ask Mrs Ellisto bring her ten dozen skiens of white emhrpiderv co making luncheon sets and such things. "PU** O^í^ (' j^lU tU*++* ty^MÂêf j That is the way in which poor women are being helped . She tatting has taken in new women and another group is doing table and lunch sets. The , pagoda runner I mailed to you is a littie like the pagodas they are using on some.Iwas sure you would like to seee that again. The dry dates were a gift from Fan Shu Li. Were they any goodf " - I said the shoes were just right. I can wear them but they would be ju just righter if they were bigger. My feet have been so tender lately ,that I will have to break them In in very shont stretches. I hope the brown are bl&l I do thank you very much for taking so much trouble for uie,and for these nice shoes too. I meant to tell you that one Fifty dollars was used for making cotton-wadded clothes. Chang Shu Lan was on the committeee with Wang Ching Hao and me. She was the manager whose skill made it go so far. It psaid seven women fo for the work they did sewing,over ten days each and made fprty -five cotton wadded garments for the poor. Thay are ali given out. One poor littie boy was fixed up in two new garments and after Ruth had given him a bowl of hot rice from the kitchen,and he had ££%$/ made his k'e Sou of thanks we stood watch-ing him go down the walk. ShuLan was here and she and Yü Shan said-that means a life saved!" He would have frozen tonight. He had a bowl for begging and as he started away he felt so like a different boy that he said,"0h I don't want this!" and started to set it down on the ground! Only when they called t to him to keep it didi he take it and start on. Last Friday night Mr Weeded and Captain Impey ,both Red Cross Engineers carne in .They had left Techow on Monday and were setting the stakes for the ROAD. It is good to have this much done. The next thing is buyi ng the lan and then work will begira. Meantime Red Cross funds are keeping 100 men busy, carrying dtirt from the river and filling in the k'eng. It is dry this year-escept for a very small place. Their work ha£ merely widened the road so far The Stable is used to store the peanut cakes that are a part of the food to be used for the men. There were two boat loads of it. Some Soldiers are on th the way here to help with the work. There will be ten divisions in ali, I will put in a copy of the route I copied form Mr Weeden's bofcfc You may give i it to Mr Ellis after you have looked at it, This is the way your auto will g | go when you visit us next/ ^ Later again. Now it is after supper and evening church^ It was at th The Eastman's and a littie early because the children wwwere a^owed to stay N up for it. Harriet read a littie Christmas prayer and the two girls sang theif song about the Christmas Bells. It was a ueautiful service. ^ We are to have the foreign gathering on Friday, Christmas Eve with jl^E J the Eastmans. Then our servants can ali go to the puta1, ic meai on Xmas. The school girls have some fun on ThursdayP.M,the Kgn.invites there parents on Thursday A.M.,the Day School closes Friday A.M. We want to give pictures to ali at the tatting school and to the 100 men busy on the àay labor,to church L peoples kiddies.So it sounds like a full week and an empty picture box at thVj end. I hope you will have a happy happy time. I am missing you daily. cá * |