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and so on. She is also at the head of a "church furnishing" committee. They have used their Christian Endeavor collections to pay for the work on a platform for the church, having had the wood since the church was built. They are now planning to get two chairs and a communion table. The desk for the platform and two chairs were given at the dedication of the church by the Tung Church. Then later on the women talk of putting in wood window sills (there is only the brick now), and then doors between the main room and Sunday-school room. So you see the women are where they always have to be in a real church. They make the home. (Does this not sound like our church work in America?)

One of the church members-a man who has got on in the world by making some money and investing it in inns and a grain shop-came to Mrs. Perkins recently, and said that he would be free to go out touring this winter, and if Mr. Perkins could help he would like to take one of the deacons a Mr. Sun, whom this Mr. Wang supported in the country for a couple of years-and go down into the Perkins' field, where he had done some teaching five or six years ago, and spend the winter among the villages. Mr. Perkins was glad to do it, and Mr. Sun is settling his family for the winter, and will be in Pao-ting-fu in a few days ready to start. This Mr. Wang and his wife help a number of boys and girls with clothing, or a little toward their food money in school. The government has opened "normal" school for girls here in Pao-ting-fu. They have difficulty in getting suitable teachers, and employ one of the Bridgman graduates for two hours a day, giving her twenty dollars per month-more than her husband, who is a graduate of the college at Tung-chou will get at Ten-chou-fu, where he has just gone to open the middle school for Dr. Atwood. A number of our young married women, who have been in school more or less, have entered this school, hoping in a year or two to be able to get like paying positions. What power for good they will have if they have the good in them to give out. One of them, I know, has a will to do good, and considerable ability in doing it. She is the wife of my former cook, and while here helped Miss Jones in the station classes very acceptably.

E. A. P.

SOME OF THE NEEDS OF LINTSING

OUR friends say repeatedly, "Tell us what you want." Here are some of the things.

(1) We want your prayers-at the risk of seeming to say trite things we must head the list with this.

(2) In the girls' schools we may plan for ten little girls, and nineteen wish to enter the school. The appropriation for the boys' school will allow us to call in only four boys as boarders, while forty would come if they could. Ten dollars will make possible the addition of one boy or one girl to the boarding schools this year.

(3) We have four out-stations, important places, with chapels which are not supplied with preachers because of lack of funds. The expenses of a helper range from forty to seventy dollars a year.

(4) To rent a chapel, that is, to rent a building that will serve for a preaching hall, will cost from ten to twenty dollars a year.

(5) To buy property which can be remodeled for church purposes will cost from forty dollars upward. Street chapels on busy streets are excellent places for reaching the multitudes who throng the streets, especially on the days when the periodic fairs are held.

(6) Last year Mr. Wen was called in from the southernmost out-station to be the dispensary assistant, and another man was added to the helper force to take charge of that out-station. Since the sum asked from the Woman's Board of the Interior is for the woman assistant for Dr. Tallmon, the sixty dollars necessary for Mr. Wen's salary is not covered by any appropriation.

(7) We previously mentioned the Mr. Wang whose eyes were so nearly put out by his enemy, but whose "heart eyes" were opened in the missionary hospital-the thought came to us that he might be admitted to the School for the Blind in Peking. Although if you saw him walk off down the road you would not think that his eyesight was nearly gone, yet he is unable to read anything but large characters in a good light. Consent to enter the school has been obtained, and we hope his wish to read the Bible and play the organ shall be gratified. Fifteen dollars will pay his traveling expenses, and a like sum will send him out as a preacher during the summer months.

SUGGESTIONS

If you think that interest could be best aroused in your church or society or Sunday school by sending a box, we will be glad to give you advice about filling it.

If you want kodak pictures of this field, we will gladly send them to you at the rate of thirty for a dollar.

If you remit for the pictures, send to F. H. Wiggin, Treasurer American Board, Congregational House, Boston, Mass. If you send money for the work here, send as above, save that in the former case mark the remittance "Personal," and in the latter case mark "Special for Lintsing." You can make use of the "Parcel Post" rate, twelve cents a pound, in sending packages to us if you address us Tientsin, China, care of American Board. From there they will be forwarded to Lintsing.

MISS SARAH POLLOCK, Room 523, 40 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill.

Chairman of Committee on “Life and Light."

MRS. G. S. F. SAVAGE, 628 Washington B'd, Chicago, Ill.

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A JOURNEY TO THE ANNUAL MEETING AT
HARPOOT, TURKEY

BY MISS J. L. GRAF

WAS appointed a delegate to our annual meeting at Harpoot. Having been away from home, starting a kindergarten at Midyat, I could not join Mr. and Mrs. Emrich, but had to travel alone. I was anxious to see some of the closing exercises of Euphrates College, which, though only one hundred and fifty miles from Mardin, yet I had never seen except on my way here five years ago. I therefore remained to our own graduating exercises, and then immediately at their close (II A. M.) mounted my little. brown horse," Whirlwind," and started off.

I spent a most restless four or five hours at the halfway place, which I reached at sunset, and at midnight was again on horseback. It was full moon and the month of June, and delightful traveling. I had a servant and soldier with me. When we reached the Diarbekir plain it grew hot, and it was very hard work to keep my eyes open and my seat on my horse.

We forded the river, which proved deeper than we expected, and then found that a second fording, which we must make in order to get to Diarbekir, was impossible. So all our short cuts were for naught, and we had to follow the river up its bank and cross by the bridge, two hours away, after all.

My heart sank as I looked at the big saddle bags, and remembered that

my extension cases had been packed into the very bottom. The bags were dripping, and when I reached my destination, having been on horseback nearly twenty hours, I found all my new finery soaked, not even a handkerchief escaped. So I had to hang out, and do some washing, too; but I had a refreshing nap and a good night's sleep.

I was to take a carriage at Diarbekir, and sent my servant to find one. It was Thursday P. M., and I had a three days' journey before me, expecting to spend two nights and Sunday at the last stopping place before reaching Harpoot. I dreaded this ordeal much, for sleep is almost impossible to me because of the wicked flea, but could not do otherwise if I wanted to see something of commencement; so I intended to engage this man to take me in four days, including Sunday. However, in a few minutes the servant returned, saying he had found a man with a phaeton who was willing to take me in two days, landing me at Harpoot at sunset on Saturday if I would give him eighty piasters more ($3.50). The usual carriage is a cumbersome but restful affair, but phaetons are coming in, and are much lighter, though one cannot stretch out at full length and doze.

It did not take me long to decide to use a part of some money which I had received as a present, for the extra expense, for it seemed so good not to need to spend Sunday among the sights and sounds of a Turkish khan. We skimmed over the ground-for there were three strong horses-and reached the halfway place at 11 P. M., having stopped two and one-half hours for rest about noon. I slept, or tried to, in the carriage, and we were off again by 5 A. M., and how beautiful was the winding road along the river and up and up to the top of the mountain range, where for hours we got such charming glimpses of the lake, a turquoise in the hills of orange and yellow.

We enjoyed the spin down, down on the other side for a full hour at a sharp trot and then across the Harpoot plain, two hours more to where the horses were changed; and then we climbed up Harpoot hill, enjoying in anticipation the surprise of the dear friends who I knew were commiserating my fate. So we rolled up to the houses and ran into Mr. Cary, who could hardly believe his eyes. We were given a warm welcome, and spent a very delightful six weeks in the company of the dear missionary circle.

THE NEW WOMAN IN CHINA

A keen observer who loves the Chinese, and is in close touch with them, says :As I look back over the years I come more and more to realize the changes that have taken place, and am so glad to have had the opportunity

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of seeing this great awakening. It is a great awakening, as it extends all over this great country. Of course, as yet it has not touched the village life, but it has the large cities, and from these it will radiate out to the smaller communities.

The "new woman" of China has appeared. She is no more lovely than she is in other lands; but when the "true woman" of China shall come forth then China will have a woman, wife and mother to be proud of, and one who will easily hold her own with the best of all nations.

At present the "new woman" must smoke cigarettes, wear very tight garments, ride in a foreign carriage, have a telephone, give lunches at rather public places, talk about education, attend all the new theatres that are advertised as popular. This they must go through, and gradually they will come to know there is a higher and better life that will call out their best powers.

There is a bright side, for this class are but a part of the " new woman class. There are those who are truly working. They deplore these outside expressions, and are very pronounced in their expressions of disapproval.

ONE DAY AT PEKING

BY MISS MABEL ELLIS

ERE I am at Peking again! The great walls with their massive gates

HERE

make it as impressive as it was the first time I entered Peking, and decided once for all that I did not want these gates to close behind me as they closed in 1900. I watched carefully for the place which Dr. Goodrich had pointed out to me as the spot where the soldiers scaled the wall to bring them aid, when he told me of that awful night when they listened to the cries, "Kill, Kill!" from ten thousand throats. Eight years ago to-morrow, they gathered together at the British legation, for protection, in the midst of a hostile city in a hostile country. Now it is hard for me to imagine these people anything but friendly.

We arrived in time for the commencement of the Women's College. How happy and attractive the girls looked! No one wore ribbons or laces, but plain, clean, muslin gowns, with light trousers and gay big shoes. They spoke and sang with a clearness and ability that was delightful. One of our dear aged missionaries tells how he wrote home nearly a century ago, "We cannot teach the Chinese to sing," and thought that he was telling the truth. But I assure you that they can sing now. And to watch the faces of these proud mothers brings joy to one's heart. Many a sad, hopeless face brightens as she tells of her hope for her daughter.