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Show - 3 - I found the journey a l i t t l e too exciting to allow my American nerves to relax enough to sleep, but my travelling companions slept calmly on. We arrived, at night the second day, making 91 miles in 25 hours! And I take off my hat to a l l my Chinese companions, for never did I hear one crpss word or an argument as to the best place in that crowded car where there were three times as many people as there were seats. It was like the crowded subways of New York, only the time was so much longer and the crowd d i r t i e r and here every one took the discomforts calmly, even cheerfully. I t was well worth the journey, for I had a great time with the boys. Wells and Ward aro in the seventh and ninth grades. They are taking violin and piano and played together at the Sunday service when I was there. The children v/ere enjoying skating on the moat in Tungchow and had had a good time inspite of the fact they couJ.d not come home for their Christmas vacation. They were very eager to have me see their rooms und I must say they keep them much neater than they did at home. They have both ^rown t a l l e r and heavier z.nd scorned to get along very well, inspite of the fact that I found them wearing their best clothes for skating and old ones for afternoon teas, and holes in their stockings I There seems to be a very real Christian atomosphore in the school and the children have the pleasure of living in the same compound with Jefferson Academy, the Chinese middle school for boys,, sharing the same class-rooms and teachers in some studies. YENCHING I took the boys to Yenching University which is the largest mission UNIVERSITY schjol in China. It received a prize of £500.00 from the National Government, for the mission school contributing most to the welfare of China. The buildings are typically Cninese. A good many of them used to belong to the princes in the jfenohu Dynasty bnd are very lovely. The large dormitories and classrooms are of Chinese architecture and the whole plant is typically Chinese at. its^best. It is beautiful and I am eager for the two boys to spend a year or two t^.ere after they have finished high school at Tungchow. They can take their freshman cind sophomore years there snd take junior year; at Oberlin, Harvard or other a f f i l i a t ed colleges. SUNDAY When in the United States several people asked if we could use the SCHOOL American Sunday School cards and papers. Now, as superintendent, I shall be especially glad to get them, ifeny of our older women can not read. They, as well as the l i t t l e children, could learn much from the l i t t l e picture cards* Very acceptable would be the large pictures, i l l u s t r a t ing the lesson story. Even the .English Sunday School papers could be used for a class of boys who have their Bible lessons in English* WOMAN'S The Woman's Society met at our house last Friday for a social. In SOCIETY spite of the rain about thirty-five v/ere present. There were talks on mission work in other countries. I served tea and cake and waffles. The last were quite new to our women and very much appreciated* These women would gladly give time, of which they have plenty, to some form of Aid Society v;ork. Would some Woman's Society in the United States like to send them quilt blocks, or pieces of cloth to use? Thety could sew them at their rygui&r meetings and s e l l the quilts for their missionary offering. MUSIC I have been enjoying very much a l i t t l e class of Chinese children LESSONS who are eager to learn to play the organ. Two g i r l s from the univers i t y have asked to join the class, tooa The Chinese have a good sense of time and rhythm and love their own tunes, many of Which we have set to our foreign scale for use in the work. I expect that frow this class will |
