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Show te4a *L. **y>s <•L intsing'B famine Belief cchool ?orty soared Ohinere kiddie® whe has never been in s big city before. Forty soloed Alduica who had newr seen a white person or ©von heard of a h o s p i t a l , forot in from the country where they have been s t a r v i n g on dry bean ^odp, peanut BheiiB, chaff, anything' that would Keep body and eoml t o g e t h e r . Friende of the «merl,eaa ?oura i i a e i o n (Congregational! had eent out money for famine r e l i e f and ,4. nt s i n g ' s apporttorment la being used to feed these forty children u n t i l the neat hardest time, in addition to feeding them, the oonimittee i s also providing elementary t r a i n i n g for then, moetly fc| volunteer service on the psrt of the teachers.. I t *&§ B t e r r l f y i a f t experience, i itrange looMrr vomer? la * white t r e e s looked at t h e i r eye*, t h e i r t h r o a t s and then listened to t h e i r oheete with a queer tube that she put into her eare. ohM might ehe not do J but the tube thing d i d n ' t hurt and as she examined one after the other, t h e i r courage ooged back. Then she told the Chinese women with red cioseee on t h e ir arrr.s t o give them u »*8thj e huth, why they h&el never hod a bath In t h e i r lives- t h e y ' d take cold and diVj Mt the eewen took them i n t o a room thot met niee and warm eft* put them iftt© ® f;re*-t big toth, al1 vhj-e a&& and s h i r i n p , ami-what a eeffcheiltg they got, "he;/ don't know thetsf elves nhen they OBme out, they were BO elenn, " aid then they warp put to ted in I long, l i g h t , airy room, pfct 10 eel in the daytime* '.'hat etranfe dolttgtj They were t o l a that t h e i r clothe? were bein# made sweet ana clean. Very eoonjeeme some steaming hot mueh for them and some e a l t vegetable and then they mere heppy. ""here was a l l thtft they could e s t and they were t o l ^ t h e t every # ley they would have all. they could eat* '- onderfu} . Stey couldn't, believe t't, 'Pnt in Bpite of being so comfortable, ssoma of bha l i t t l e OH^P couldn't keep back the t e a r s of loneeoTReneee end tc^rjthnt n1v'»tt at eleepy t i » e , for everything w£l so Btra^f ge and mamma and papa, we re no" ->hf>r<* t e comfrrt trier, *he$ would happen to them neyxi &*y? Sot even the kind thineee women in the mard could comfort • them. B*t finally the?/ slept with the wenrineps of i t ©11 aocl the rex t morning t'-ie eun wee ehininp b r i g h t l y and tfcef ail* ffilt bel ?er, Epjreoielly when more food, this* time w1t.it pore pood cornbraad, wae brot in for the®. And the attendant*? tojd the« th»t today they would f-o over to the school and begii t o etudy. They, poor, etarved, l i t t l e kiddies, had never had a hope that they could study anJ be able to read and * r i t e , 'hip, tted bejond t h e i r fondest dreams, on ©n« mure t e r r i f y i n g tiling happened to them beiore they left the h o s p i t a l , The white 'Aoman oatuo u^hiu anc* vaccinated men. oee a f t e r the other, ?nej Wept ana waxlea ut i'iret but alt ox the f i r s t two were don© and they crowded around these asking, "Bid i t hurt, cad i t hurt?" ana received a negative answer, they oecidec that they would a l l be vaccinated. Hext they were taken to the aohoolyard and t n e i e were sftinge aniL l a l l p there and in the school building, forty l i t t l e dorks and forty books, me fo-- each ttfsi of thaw, Utl in t'heii Serwitery & ne% r o l l of 1-eddinf for aeh two of them, in! o v e r . m i u r »o elean and feright, Bfegh a contract to w:eir dark teudhutsi, t l i i eenetinei it ell hntt beoauet it ret so Btranre, it rraduolly oo they | pm etrei^ger with |#0l feet, el the &e*J&e*i of it all r e ao ; n< toco^ i r.oane ver| buey leeJmln^ ic r o a tno TaHe, to eint; and i f i g u r e , they thet Ubee and laaw at the unbo^^s curiQun&inge they had come on. The studies men- hatd, e f | e c t a l l y the e r i t i a f of the chsractore, I the Btroiiee hel to be made J s e t PO , not too light hiici not too he«eft •et t n i s stroke ana then t h a t , but »©me clay tb^y will ^e i o h e l e r i ] fhey Sly teaee ehet teeeher the| l u e heel feml ^eih^pa it li the on* who comee ':he aftarnoon and teachee them $tbieg one t e l l s ohem s t o r i e s , and they JER r t i r e oC hesrln Itx t e l l about a boy ineiilfl "iovia »^bo hel a soiinf ,1ust the one i Chinet e h oyP|I P 'J , |
