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5i~er an oa. bllt 10 .n 0 r ••1v08/- a~4 mODtl, 1011 I e rooogntao thatif any ot tb a~ 01'011. thil1~. that cay harpoA to a yono any.horo .ere tohapp n to you "b 1e in Chin. 1 tbat •• wou d ~.t the ..... r1 •• tin~ bla~. torit booau.e DO t aAything in'l1rio~. i by i.l1e~.l ropl1t. attributed to Ohiaa.'But jQ~~ing CroQ our 0 a .,~orleaoei. ieoi!o! to t ~o th.t riaK

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that fOU wou14 ha~e at 1 •• t a ,.ar a ohaaeo to rel., .4d Coel no ~oa~04~sibil ty ror ohurob or re' atl" •• ; ju i o.t .a! rea 1 ... t_it a a 010. I a/11000 a r oaTiro ~. t tor your. It. But I1Dio th. 0 ro~ et DOO. I tor thooake t the ho etol • we ro ,l.! that the .t • or ° Ootob r 14th ii! Aoth .... o YOQ oa bo ri.

o haTe boon ~er, m oh.a • oi by tn i. th ol one or o~r .i •• io or! •in Ch~o~~i (wn oa~e ~ to hia. ar er r~~lo ~h the aooo ,. r aftor •arrivei.· R wa i oh. of b. Caa 41 tho! .t 811aio.. A~el1oy tOh..ln~ldo1..· Ria tr Ilble wa. [ir.t oa tea oholora but art r •• ri ala: o.el ••pto aLa' oi 0 i4~.: Hill Tit.li ty h.d. beeA ver1 QIl h uAier i o~ by OTor,,~r.ai h .a. b ! i1 eo whea we .ere atton!in~ A 4u.l Ooaleroaoo. l1~th.r1.,10aary ••• all' .eri,uoly i I froc tee 0 u •• b~t at la,t report

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The C aaiiaa ia0104 ha. been haTia a 'erie DC Qio!o tUGes latoly •• t tew atb •• ~o - week.: rathor l a arg p.rt, omb.rke! llpOG ~

t~4!.r! ~il IIt.a or at lob 11~ .01 .tart ! ap the Yaagt. eTeo thou~h ita. vor, 1 te i the .o •• lJn.· rb. bo t atrlll) a rOOk .a! turl1.do O"er all

it oi1o.' The pa •• ea~ero .ar bltt to "et ~p 00 tb. t p.iio alll! re ainelCor abou~ torty-tive ill~too be.toro thoy .ar roaollo! •• h 1 lo.t e ... r1tb n~ bu what th y wero .rinq, th u~b Cor ua.telr ... er1o~e wa. ~r.5so!r r Ilt~oor trave .t tb ti~e ot the oot!o~t.· In later tnTe.tigotio~.,it ••• ro~a! that the hi~o. pi at .a. A~t re,1.toroII t tbat owiag tot e taot ~ t the t a!ar ~il e ployee ••• a ~er1 .w arr!T.l, thia :aoh ! boo .ble to pass hlmsol! of! ao a pilot who naco .aa Oil the 00 p.nyregi.t r. ~e ba"o 0 t.rtaine~ a a ber ot the i •• io arie. who weat thrllthat el erleoo & d b are no. on thoir way to Oben~t~. Yo~ remecbero~r .poa i ~ of o~r Chrl.t a q~est.: woll, 000 t the hora who ••• boin~eeoort i to the Oboa«tll aohool wao in tb.t "reo. e h.... ai 0 r oeive~• r! ot hi. rather r 0 th l .1.0 !QO to the ,aQe aaQ •• aa r.~rutoh rr a •

I have ~roape! .11 or t ia 1Ato one rara(raph b.aa~a. it ie 0 reoent01 a18~ .0 elO ptioaa • 11 f t .var l.t tro~blo your peaoe or mi01.e havo al aya ro~taed to t yo~ Irno tho worlt a .all 8 the beat .0

that YOIl neel not imaEine t a •• are keeping the .a~ part rrom rOQr Know-lelqe. h a ,o~ oo~e to Chinal howaver, I h P th.t you oal1 ve Darlyin ~otobar or luring 8 fte=ber aa th Q Y q are .llre to oom. by t.amer Ilderthe oot rav'rab1e OOA! tloao.

Up nor retllra fro iKian~1 I had t io aoc_ ruah ~r.p.ratioa iao der to (et re.!, to p eaoh at tb OhiaeDe ohllroh to!ay. I to~k C1 to,~tro ~.o!ua 14:15 ~An! Jehovah e.ii uato 0 e., WhereCor oriest ~ho~ ntoae ? ape ~ ato the ohi11roo of lara 1 th t tho, ~ tor.arl.·· I h i pre~

rei ohart. ee! UPOQ tho .tatistioa .hloh I havo beon worKing Ilpon for•• e~DI an1 the.e ia the Cor or di.lr.m••• re 11 el •• a bauia poa wbiohto ur,e tbom to ako ~reator tri..d a ill aolt-suPPort ror the oomin( rear.1 preaohe! n arly .0 h r, Ire rrai z but the, lietone! very oar.t ly.~hope there .il1 bo 80=e ooi re ~lt ooco from it.·

T m rrow we are e~peoti ~ the ~ r~ f :i1y ani ~r.~er~Loo of tho Chen~t~fMC' to paa. thrll all their w&,.. t:J Chen\t 11.' 1'10 have. feaat ia the ~.IA.bllt h~~e to be thrll bof~re o~r ;110 taT &ri~.l. They w 11 11:J !?ubt ~ooa on T~ea!aT lllorntn~" an I will aooompany them as far ae Jleaoh". " t.little over two ~a"'l journey fr:J~ bere.: e ~r. to have a Bi-OiltriotConference at th t plaoe; la8tin~ three ~.ya. Clara will not aoooZl.~an1 lIletbis tilll~J but ill ata,.. at YlnblZ1ohiao nL~hto. S as I havenTt writtonto 10~ for tW:J weo!a.l ! !i! not WAnt to poutPOl1O it until cy rotl1rn.

1'Ie are at laat ~ettin~ YOl1r little ChrLotlllao rs:e;br&noe off to YOI1.'Rave juot tie! it up: ei~bt atereo~raph. of ollr bOlllo an! envir03Cel1tao~o of whioh wo ouraelvoa t:JO~ with a bor 0 o.~ raJ all! othera ~ wdlohwo pril1to' fro: Dr.~Ll)eotr.. a!Ta ne~ativea. 'e ho 0 that they .ill soeeaore realiatio than .ollle otbor pb~tos whioh we have aont you.' Clart. 1aalao ooa1ia~ y u a teB-~lotbr- aaother e~ arle o! Chiaeae 3.rawnwork ca3.ofroa a pattera o! the firot Chriatma. ~reae t whloh I ,ave Clara after ourarrival in Cbina ia lQl~. So aorr~ tbat we !i! not k ow ia tieo toiaolu!e it .it the ftrot Cbrist •• pao~a;. 0 hate to thla~ of your aee­th t opene! an! with ~ift. Cor evory One but 10l1J an' not even a Ohri.tcaawill h.

The paoit.~e wnioh r:J~ are ue.:l1i01i: to uo haa no yet arrive!~' I lIuppoaet hat a t II a a 0 II tat f 0 a a 1 0 n ~ the 1 i .ll e .I t h s p 0 a t 0 C f i 0 0 i a w to i. t i !1 ~ for • II tr Ij; eono~~h aooumul tioa to warrent thee in ooa!ing a .olai~r aoort .1~!1~ withthe paroel pQat aosort~eat. N ~oubt it will eaob ~G Clnally ao! .afoly.Wo have lOlt b~t ne r 0 t.~e tn three year.

8y tha w.y" I ba~o been tate~~inE to ao wbathor I left a boo! 011wEoole aatioa Arobiteoturo W in the aaaortmeat whioh I left at ho~ew~eo we .tarte~ for Ohi~a. If t ta there; I wish yo woul! ae~! t at ao!any otb r bo~k et or b ~epriato wh ob ciqh ho P lIle ia 4etti ,ide. forthe pla!1nia~ ~f re81!enoe. or 00 rohDs on y 0 striot. If you ~o • of

a{ ~OO~ arohiteoto io 0 at?ol a~eoi.l frion!a of HarryTa ho woal! bewi l~ ~ to .ub.or bo a little tiee out of o!! houra to ct~ o~ ttp Goge plaogiC w oaA furAiah hie loce ideaa to requiromenta out here.l I wo l!appreoiate ba~l.!l'; ht na~' :J.! a!!roll •

I have a lett r fro:! the Fr e Se a€ ohi.!1 at R oltfor JIll.' yiogtb t thore ie a b alaooe th,ro oC 2. 3 aeate ~ e et thor you."r e.l a.ll~th t they will pay it 0.11. :Jrder. e a e.reot{a~ the p rta a4Y day .IlOWa. th r ~~e 0 rrive tht. woo~ frog Chua-k .Ilg. Thoy were e t twoo tnree ye ra .~~l au kao " aa! it h 9 tak 4 the~ this loa~ ~ arri~e.A8 800.11. I ther 00 0" I .111 notify tho oo~pa.llY f t t faot l ani as thocto 00.11. yo a cboo. f:Jr the 2. 2. If 1 do a?t reoel~ it withla a o.lli~rtllr rooetvinli tht. lotter r I .dah that yOI1 " uld a a write to thee.'I woul;! also li to ha~e th a~ ber of C[ N r~hwoDtor.ll utu 1 Lifo 0.8Ura.lla~ poli01z aoi the alllouat r the roo um !ue anaualr 80 that I oaop~t that gattor i.ll. tho haa~8 of tbe 8 ar! of ror i(a 't88iooe a ~ sa~e yotbe tr ublo oC oo~il1C r or th t oatter f?r QO. I bave si~ ,earo co ~before thet will all be pai! 1.0..

It o~ouro to = that ju!~tn~ frog the vory ole r pl ro~ seat l1a orOaa T• ao! HaielTD heat ~v aotoQ: p rha~8 wo i .!lTt ao 3. to ~o a.ll.Y C.r.ther [a ~ur queot tor Gu~-osti.ll. Cor now hoceo. foa rourself oi~bt ,l~othee to ue. 0 ne ! a l~~ f be!s whero we hav 0 Q.~l ,ueots, but IToaCr 1 tho foll ... l!) bela wou.l! /1"t "ork out here. 110: lT vo !'levor leenthat kia! of a be~~ But t en th r &~o lots of tni.ll~8 ia the t toa ju t0" of whtob "e ar ~er1 l~.IlQr • .II.tz ITO lIure. the 8u.ll-parlorz or at

least a ale ~i C p'r 0.1 aoroeao! ia; ia quite a uaor~ a1junot.lbo"ever.Thet. bo~o g~ut be quite o?.Ilve.lli~~ .11.3. ~l as ~t.·

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I have 1 o~e. OVllr Go~e of e- ratber hastily" as cy tieocrow! ~ h~8 r~rl but I h~po t&~e thew with co on the roai~ tha~ t~~o or D?~~er. Th n~s to a 0 in~ th c.

r.~e oott seat ~8 a vory nioo h otoae let e th a ye~rz-tbo firotin .e rD. I. G ~orr :.1 i t_ ~ot it.: He ie anw I!:~e tive S atarT f t eDepartee t of Re i; ~~s '~Q tioa at 80 t~n Dntral' itT; aa perhaps yo~know~ He r$fer. t a bi ei8010n r Qo~-)n lon heli in 3,st~n.l w re heb ! b? e3. to coot yo~. ~~ ior why be t o~ght r m were 00 in,? I wiayo~ hai boen able t~ a ta~~ th ex~ 5 ti?4 at C01u b 5. There were nearlytweety of n~r Woot Chino frtenio t ~e.l all ,r WDoa I woull hay& been la3.

~.~ to have yo~ coet. 8y D wa I iC you ver hav 00 beio t~ ~~~-f-if'tv I ! 11. hun t 11 P t h a r a:;: r 0 r r. lJ 8 • P b a e 0 b. Til 0 e t urn . .II. I; to"eat

China n81t y r. It c Cht be e 1 Q fL 4 ~.t r ~ n '1 toUs th n/ to orran~ to tr ~el with tbec. At any yo~ ohoul~ ~a? thoc,He is preaiien or the nion' i~5r, t •

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[Handwritten]                 On the Yangtse River                     January 28, 1920  My dear Mrs. Havermale:    How very kind and thoughtful of you to send me a steamer letter and that lovely book!    You cannot know how much I appreciate it!  No, I did not have the book!  It is certainly very   enjoyable.  I shall leave it at Tzechow for your son and daughter to read.    I have thought of you as often on this trip, wishing you might have been with us.  All of   the steamers have ceased running on the upper Yangtse, so we came by houseboat.  I believe   you would have enjoyed it tho’, for we have had beautiful weather and grand scenery.  We   have been on the houseboat for more than three weeks.  We hope to reach Chungking on Sat.   Jan. 31. and to spend Sunday Febr. 15th at Tzechow.    Misses Proctor and Harger are both new workers.  They are enjoying the journey very   much.    I surely hope your son’s wife in Evanston is well long before this.  I also hope your   parents health will be as much improved that you can come to China in the fall.  I shall be   greatly disappointed if you do not come.     I thought I might be stationed at Tzechow but I am to be at Chengtu.  However I shall   certainly see you if you come.      With love and many thanks.  So many people on the steamer enjoyed “Brian Kent[“].                              Gratefully yours                 Grace Ellison                      

Dear Mother:   As we walked out to meet Miss Ellison last Saturday I wondered what I would have felt and acted like if you had been with her. I think it would have been as near an “aviation experience” as I have ever had. But maybe I will know someday. Miss Ellison said after she had rewired your letter saying you could not go, for several days she would find herself having a sad feeling and wonder what was the trouble – Then suddenly remember you were not going with her and that was what caused the sadness. I hope you may know her some day. And Mrs. Manly, that Lewis speaks of in his  

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Letter is just as fine. A statement in one of your letters, Mother, made me wonder if you thot [sic] one reason we wanted you to come was because I had that little operation. Having it at just that time certainly makes it look so – but it was not a reason. We had planned to have it done before we thot [sic] of your visit. I am feeling somewhat discouraged in it having the desired effect. It seems that the joys of parenthood are not to be ours. The desire has been keener than ever since coming to Tzechow. Due to two reason I think. First it seems that it right to be now if ever – and second there are no little foreign children here for us to enjoy. There are many little Chinese  

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Babies, all dear, some sweet, but few clean. Oh I can love them and do love them, but we do want one or more of our own so much. But our prayer is and has always been “not our will but God’s.” And I have a work here that leaves me no time to sit around and lament, and our home life is most happy – many things to be thankful for.   In about a week Lewis will leave for two small village evangelistic campaigns. I am planning to go with him and also chaperone two young Chinese girls teachers that are to help in the meetings.  

4.  

  If you should go to Des Moines to the general Conference, you must plan to visit my people at Webster City at the same time as you would be so near. I know my Aunts and Uncle in Des Moines would be glad to see you too. Mother has been quite ill with gall‐bladder trouble but was able to be up and around again when last I heard. Alma is enjoying High School life.    Our table‐boy gave us a little shock a few day ago when he came in serving the food wearing a foreign felt hat of which he had just become the proud possessor. Chinese caps are worn in the house same as out and they look alright. The Chinese have not all learned to adopt the foreign custom along with the foreign hat.    With lots of love to All ‐ Clara 

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Wurvhangtsang(?) March 2nd, 1920 

My Own Dear Clara:    Your two good letters were both received last night during the “welcome meeting”. We used to express superlative joy when in college by the simile “Just like a letter from home!” I know now better than I did then just how much that does express.   The meetings at Liumahtsang(?) were quite satisfactory on the whole, but we look for even more “lao‐veh” ones here as the town itself is much larger. We are located  in a Buddhist temple built by the Gwandung people for their special brand of Buddha. It is quite a large place and we are holding our services in the section used for the school. Our rooms flank the “assembly room.” On a milder day my room would be quite enjoyable as it is light and airy. It has the accompanying disadvantage of being fully upon to curious eyes, however, and on this market day those eyes are now few. It is likewise much noisier than my former quarters, but I trust that I am learning “in whatsoever state I am, therein to be content.” Am very thankful for one thing in particular, that you do not have to endure the same experience. A man can pull thru easily, but a woman would have quite a time, I’m afraid.   I had my first experience riding in a whu‐gan yesterday, and I trust it will be my last for a while. It rained so hard on Sunday night, and also all day Monday, that everyone urged me not to walk. I yielded to persuasions, and in company with Messrs. Whang and Wang embarked upon uncharted waters. With my oilsilk over my knees and my umbrella drawn down to my shoulders I tried to keep that fine mist and rain from soaking thru me. It blew in almost horizontally and the wind could get at me from every angle, not to speak of a few parabolic curves.    It is also rather difficult to sit upon a swinging half‐hammock of bamboo strips with an uncertain footrest that isn’t supposed to bear the weight of a man’s feet (my size) and one’s full weight is more precarious. Imagine  

2.  

My two men slipping hither and yon, and your devoted husband trying to hold up the oiled sheet with his left hand, his umbrella with his right, while with both elbows straining to maintain equilibrium upon two fish‐poles by pressing the latter against his sides (as a rider uses his knees when on horseback) lest he slide astride the neck of the foremost coolie when on a down grade, and you have a fair picture of a Japanese acrobat doing a “daring and death‐defying” stunt on the parallel bars.   Such a seat isn’t the most pleasant either. After four hours ride in that strained position, I warrant the mid‐equatorial region of my anatomy – spotted blue with cold, yet striped in red by the bamboo strips would have furnished an impressionistic artist with a suggestive study of the “bar‐stangled spanner south of the equator.”   I walked six li of the way and so arrived nearly an hour before the rest of the folks. They were all chilled to the bone and complaining loudly. I’m afraid our mild weather is postponed for a while. Just so the roads are dry by Saturday, I won’t begrudge the farmers the rain. My right hand is so stiff with cold that I can hardly write legibly. As it is market day however and the court is full of cotton merchants it seems inadvisable to have classes this morning and I have an extra hour. I think perhaps I’ll write a congratulatory letter to Earl Roadman on his professor‐ship at upper Iowa.   I have just finished a letter to Dr. Lewis made necessary by the one from Lochueujin. Thanks for sending it on to me. It required immediate action. We will now have three men  from Lochueujin and seven from Urilidien in the Bible School at Chengtu.   Am glad you are enjoying your callers; that you are not afraid to stay along; that you’ve had a foreign mail with good news, ‐ and all the rest of the good things contained in it. Cant’ say I’m enjoying 

myself exactly, but I’d be willing to go thru a lot worse experience if I could feel that I were accomplishing something for the master, really worth while. I shall be mighty glad to get back home.   Mountains of love from          Lewis 

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7

Tqeyang, Sze. April 5th, 1920 

Dearest Motherkin:   Today we complete the first half of our itinerary. Two weeks ago today, I left Tzechow. Since then we have visited twenty‐three places, and travelled 524 Chinese miles of which I have walked all but thirty. This has not been quite the feat it sounds, however, as we have never but thot [sic] once travelled more than 55 li a day or about nineteen miles. I guess I’d call a 19 mile walk quite a jaunt in America, though.   Clara joins me about ever second or third day as soon as she completes school examinations in the larger paces. This make quite a break in what would otherwise be rather a strain. She of course is moving in a chair and has the cook along with her to do the “heavy” work about avoid the necessity of eating Chinese food as often as I do. When we’ve together I eat with her, so in this way – there is quite a relief to me.   Yesterday we spent in Chinsuiha(?). It was a splendid Easter day, all bright sunshine. The fields are masses of yellow vape(?), or blossoming peas, purple, white or ‐, at this season of the year. Clara conceived the idea of getting up an Easter greeting card for the Tzechow WFMS, using pressed flowers from illustrations and impressed me, as the sailors say, to write verses to fit. We has Spring leaves and ferns, the violet, yellow vape(?) and voch(?)‐lilies, forget‐me‐nots, ‐ “sweet” peas, and roses, plum blossoms, and wheat, ‐ each of which had its own distinct Easter message. Will fix up one for you when we get back to paper and ink.   One of the most pleasant features of the day was the arrival of our coolie from Tzechow (he was several hours late due to a change in our itinerary) who brought us a fresh load of supplies, and a big bundle of letters. Clara received – home letters, and I – or we – also got two good letter from you – those of Jan 29th and Feb 6th. I would have enjoyed them more, had I not had to reproach myself for having caused you so much worry on our account due to my irregularity in writing. – you have received my apologies and reasons however, and I do hope your mind is at peace again. On no account should you worry about us. It was to help you get over that, that we have so strenuously urged you to spend a year with us and see how normal a life we live, ‐ not nearly so dangerous as in America where all folks are divided into two classes as the chauffeur says ‐ “the quick and the dead”. Boxer days are apparently over. America and Americans are the ideal of thinking Chinese out here. Instead of our having to ask them for protection and justice, they come to us. And we do not live with the Lynch family in Africa (no wonder she  

2.  

wanted to change her name before going to the land “where the ne‐gros.” Unless he is presenting extraordinary incidents as commonplace, our condition is paradise compared to them. Nothing worse than centipedes, lice, and fleas. No poisonous snakes that I have heard of. However, this is not for publication, and I surely admire your good judgement [sic] in thus “neglecting your duty” toward us. There is not one tenth the hardship we expected when we came out here, and not a fiftieth of that which you imagine. Above all things don’t endow us with halos!   I’d like to read that Delineator story just to see how thrilling it can be. Clara say that nothing like that can scare her – long.   There are no cases of “flu” in our section of the country so far as I have learned. Tho’ we haven’t six trained nurses in Tzechow  at present, we have enough to give us plenty first aid until a doctor can get over from Tzeliutsing one day away, or from Chengtu, 3 days away. We don’t anticipate any early need for such attention however. Reading your letters about Hazel and Dan, or Muzzy and Grandpa, it 

seems to us as though we are living in a healthier country that you folks are. It is for us to worry, not for you.   We are glad to learn from the later letters and cards that Dan was not prevented from taking his examinations. Of course he will pass, though I wonder if it really pays him to include Sundays among his work days.   Thanks to you and Lucile for the Rhodehever song: it sounds good to me. Guess I’ll have to send for the rest of his collection of solos in that 25₵ folio. Didn’t know he was publishing them in that form. If I went back in the States I’d want the duet collection, too, to sing with Lucille. Since Dr. Liljestrand moved to Chengtu, we don’t have much music but the six records on our Stuart around our ranch. Haven’t had time to move than get my lips to the sore stage in cornet practice since I got that a year ago or more. Am afraid my habits are fixed and my work cut out to such an extent that the cornet might be called a poor investment.   I’ve received my 20 yr. endowment policy in the Methodist Ministers Insurance and relief association for $4000.00. Costs me $180.00 in the beginning. It pays 4 ½ percent so it seemed to me to be as good an investment  

3.  

as I could make of a year’s savings just now. Since receiving the policy, we have received word indirectly from the Board of Foreign Missions that our salary is to be raised $200.00 per year, making it $2500 Mex. That will provide nicely for our premium you see.   Are you sure we haven’t told you about the cow? We did buy one but kept it only a week. Chinese servants are the – on “graft.” It looked as if the – of measuring out feed, testing milk, churning butter, and all of that sort of thing would take too large a shove of our time, not to speak of the wear on our dispositions, so we proposed to the cook that we will sell it to him. We would give him the pasture rights on our hill and pay him ten cents Mex. a day for enough milk and cream to supply our wants for milk and butter. The ten cents per day would apply on the price of the cow. He agreed so both of us are benefitted. He has a surplus of milk which he sells to Chinese customers, and so with the pasture allowed him, feeds two cows and calves, and hires a man to care for them. The only fag we have is the occasional testing, to be sure there aren’t any catfish in it.   Don’t worry about duty on packages to us. We occasionally have to pay ½ of 1% on the value in Mexican of goods from America, but it never amounts to very much. We probably get even with you on what you pay on the stuff we sent you. The box hasn’t arrived yet so far as we know. Sorry you couldn’t register it, however, so that it could be traced if it fails to be delivered the latter part of this month when parcel – shipments will begin to arrive.    Am afraid we can’t afford to go to the movies when we get back home. I understand that 10₵ movies are a thing of the Stone age now.   Of course you had a good visit with Aunt Cora. Does Muzzy still like to be surprised as well as she use to like to do the surprising? Try the break on West China, Muzzy!   That was surely quite an honor which Dr. Bartle and Dr. Scholes paid Lucille on behalf of the choir. We are very proud of her! Glad to see by the program that she has gotten back her nerve for solo work too.  

4.  

The dress‐samples are very pretty. High prices don’t seem to interfere with that. I’ve got some new clothes too. I sent my grey coat which I had made the year before I graduated at Boston, and the trousers to the two‐piece suit which I had made while at Alpha, up to Chengtu to the Chinese tailor to be 

cleaned, turned and re‐lined. The trousers look like new, the coat is much improved thought the upper pocket is now on the right hand side, and the button holes had to be sewn together in the change. It only cost me $7.50 Mex. or $3.75 US money, and will be fine for road use and the cooler days on the mountains until furlough time as I think it paid me.   A letter from Mr. Manly says that their son, Gordon, is to stay with the Yosts in Colorado and that Mrs. Manly will probably return to China in August. I’m afraid you’ll not get to come with her after all, if she come that early.   Soon General Conference will open in Des Moines. I am sending in my subscription to the Conference Daily by this mail, as I expect there will be some interesting work done there this year.   Am wondering whether you couldn’t learn from Dr. Jas. Buch at Dixon just when he and Dsang Lin‐gao from Tzechow will be there (in case they can not stop off in Canton at any time) and Harry motor you and Lucille over there to visit with them all some day. I think that would be more practical than the Des Moines scheme, as they will be worked to death there.   Well this looks about as much like hen‐scratching as like a letter, but a pencil is worse than a pen in my hand, and I’ve been trying to write extra fast while I have the chance to get off a note to you for this evening’s mail. I walked fourteen miles this morning, and this is the fourth letter I’ve written since I arrived. I’ll be mighty glad when our “Corona” arrives, so that we’ll have something for road use. The Board is kicking because my last Quarterly letter to Magee was over due. But when I have to make three copies each time, I can’t do it on the road without a typewriter and I’m on the road over half of the time.   Love to all,        Lewis and Clara 

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Dearest Motherkin and All;-Again the <.lays have come and gone and

letter is t ereby delayed. The usual rush is he reason, of course.After about eight ays on the road, I alked about ourteen miles be­fore breakfast on Tuesday tl G fc,urL: ... end arrived at lOme. Clara, likethe g od lrl she ~lways is had aited to o_en the Cnrl tmas packagefrom you e r folks until r should bet oac to enjoy it it her. Soright after reakfast we had a ses8ion all y our 10nesoQe, not evenp~using to reckon accounts ith the load carriers hen they arrivedan hour or t 0 after I had come in.

And 0 Boy, but there was a good time do-in'it One after another e <.lrew t em out nt 1 we oeg~n to thinkthat next Christmas would arrive while e ere in the lIl1 st of it.Every t iug as in the very e t condition exceptin" the clinicalthermometer whic h~d roken. But do not think you are to get newone on that account as we already have one hat worKS all right. Thebattery for he fl~sh li~lt as not beeI m~de to ork as yet but it

seems as if it ou t to. They donft usually give out for half a yeareven with constant use, and this one lasn't been used at all.

The co l~s I have bro ght along lith meand am wearir. the cream stri ed one no. It 8 been adnired by anumber 0 eOyle who have also taken occasion to tell me of tneir ~d-miration. en I get ac' 10. e at I 111 have ore or an oppor-tuni ty to IOOA: at t..Le ....n i te to all of you ereo lIly 7i t' re'to them. ter g:lving t eill tle "onc over" I a to et ousy and pre-pare a speccl in C inese for teen's Club meetin in the ecrly after-noon at our uilding on Lo er est Street. e now ave quite aplace, running it on t e YMCA plan. e have a free reading room forthe male publiCi a lecture room; a tennis court; guest rooms andgame rooms. Every week or ~o we plan special lectures or entertain­ments, and three nights a week ave a night school. Sixty have enrolledthus far, ten of them being in the EngliLh class.

r got back in time for supper and hadto go down again 1n the evening to nandle the stereopticon l~ntern fora leoture. 3ig oro ds both times, So I had about an hour with Claraall that aYe ednesday morning bright and early I was at my accountsto Dring them up to date for the Finance Co ittee meeting. so hadto collect and sort a coolie lOad of hygiene tracts for use at theNeikiang meetings for the Dist.Supt. to take ack With 1m on T ursday.In the afternoon before e had had time to dress for company, three 0the Chungking men arrived on their ay up here and so I had to dropeverything in order to show them about the work and get them to fUl y

understand several of my local property problems so that they wouldbe more liable to cooperate with me when the mat ers s ould come upat our meetings. Clara and I worked at getting my loads ready forthe trip until nearly midnight, and then I ot up at four-thirty andstarted with t e rest of the rethren in order to make an extra longday's stage so as to have one less day's travel. e arrived in Chengt uon Saturday.

2.e didn l get through witht. sup er until a little after eight and then

I was mighty glad to get to bed. Sunday morning we had the universitychurc services to attend, here the Crawfordls four children were bap­tized and the three older ones received lnto membership. The service wasall in Chinese, but I don't know when I have been more touched by a ser-vice of that kind. 'y handkerchief had to be used to pretty good ef-

fect. 1 m afraid I'm getting r~ther sentimental in myoId age. I usedto cry 80 seldom that I often ondered if I really ad feelings Ii e ot erfol s.

Dr.Ste art, vice president of the Univelsity wrote to me atTzechow asking me to preach be ore the University students, but in answerI told him the story of the dar y in Newport News ho as stopped on t estreet by a white gentleman with the wor s, "I say Uncle coul you changethis ive dollar ill for me it The darky when he 5u. til t the man wanot trying to kid him re lied, "No,kUhnel, I cain!t but I thanks you forthe compliment just the same.- I hardly t ou ht my Chinese was goodenou~l as yet to undertake ~ch ~ task, 80 I uecllned.

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It was well th.t I did, or at our Sunlay afternoon meetinthe men elected me to lecJ.d t e ornm u. votional services lch e'megettln t up in the wee emaIl hours o pre are. Mr. eat was 1 vl~ed to1 "Le "'0 1 community prayer ,:",erv ce the other e "eni g, but he dec inaand the ra lu"en elec ed me to reprcsentt:i.lam. Uo_ doliver the. t sarmon80 yo see suc_ work ""8 th t in ~d,_lit.ion to - 'l ti "'S 071 tip Fi ceCo olitt , euts uut ~)le-1Ly 0," ,vor:':. ~ r me. EV8ry niu It or niJon Ii~lVli"dd J t bO e,_J.Jre rut' <-I, pc'l. va cen at t..:1~ _'LS u_l1e, it _-J.!' 8Ll1jecl.Jr~1 8, :~e ,_U liS, C 3. fOI'd's; t')li~:lt a_I at ic~er's 0.1. tnC__ c.. i ~ ;e1." _1' L • 6s10n, to orr -t ",'_,. L~'T a's, S nd y t t e hO:l€

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Clara ha.s ::lont e a lett r f om you, i:other lear, whichI was vary Glau to Bet. Ana be are I forget i~, I 'nt to correct onev 3ry serious misundsrstall in' hlc~l you ae0m. to ave bud 1n reading mylette s. leaae let ae re_ e, t anJ G IN REP T I : 'I en I entlont'll s -r,7hich I hope someday to bUy for myael , such as the stereopticonor all as for t e gr pha.) one, or a ytllln else, please on't tunk thatI am HINTING for YOU to buy it for me for I O. I sed thecatalog as 1t seems to me t lat. 0 aslbly that l,...ntern 1s 0 e lWhl c theChine e pre<.\.chers c uld use to p.dva. tage 0 tt here, and I wanted 0 in­vestigate it more t oroly. But aual y trose fello s stick t ~ t~ngs

n an envelope i t~l a loose fla.p an," I ~eva 6e t ..:leir II terature. 5I aS4 d yo for your elp in securlnE it Lor me. Tnis you have done andI tha you exceeJi. ly. As for t e acor1s, it ~i~~t e har to etthem. pac ed properly, a 1.1 71'hen I u I will buy froe .. ont~ Bery Wardan Co. who always make ·OOl all loss or damuoe. Or I ca bUy atShal' ai and have rienJs ring the~ to ae ~hen t' ey come.

Well, it ls su~)per t1.19 so I'll wal t '..lntil tomorrowto tinish tilis letter.

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3.Here it is on Sunday mornin already, and my lette 1s not yet finished.

trying out a new typewriter, a Corona. Clara an I concl dethat the present time is a good time to bUy as it 18 not alwa s con­venient for the two of us to use my Hammond when I am at home, andwhen I an on t e 1'" ad I have to let uch of my correo,ondence go andit eta piled uo sornethl g 1ierce. So inasmuch as exchange was downto such an extent, bringing the price of the Corona down to sixty dol­lars ex. instead of 100.00 as it has been hit~erto. we uecided toinvest. t the t 0 for one rate under whic' we are aid our salary,the oachlne costs us t ir y dollars. Now when I am at home, eachof us has a machine to use, and t 1s oortable machine can easily becarried 1n y baggage hen I go on the road. It has a little differ­ent arran ement on the keyboaril,however, 80 I find I am aking a goodmany ista es 1n t. is letter.

Yesterday Clara forw~~ded Hazel'a letter to me t lling of theirDIana for tne f tW'e. She suggests that Dan nay 0 into the auto~anufacturing business, and that owinB to health reaso s Californiamay Dos81bly be selecte 1 as u.:leir f tUl'e ho e. If so you'll havea half way station on your ay oack and orth from China, won't yo ?Glad to kno rr tha t Dan will be a le to get t:U'u his course satisfac torilyt is year. He has had to work aga1nst .nore <11 ficulties th.an I everhad to co e up against even t 0 he had an L leritance to lelp hi 0 t,, asn' t he ?

Our work here will .rob..:l ly be flnian d b ed es ay and e'lls tp 1 t Dac;:: to Tzecihow. 1'1 be iohty lad, for I . ate to be a rayf Clard. so lon, and beel as t_ere are 1'" 0 £i t r a ong theB' d.. In' i there is anyt_ . tv=' t us fa , thoCh king has cil ngecl lla ds, - tIle weicho b nch now ha. iug control.How wouli you li~ it in the Stat s if every time there .as a guber­natori 1 e action all e ca 1 ates for govc'nor called ut wI teverproportion 0 t~e ~iliti or 1e tion I guard to ma4e S 0 of forcend popu ity causing them to be ppointed? T at Beems to be about

t!le lay of thIngs out here. Almost another llexico.

ell, it s about time for ma to go into the city for church andI must et a not off to Clara as I missed out writing to her yesterday.And let me once more empa alze what I said above sOGewhere: don't thinthat every time I mention antlng or needing somet lng that I'm hintingfor you to go out and bUy it and send it by ret~~ mail. When weneed things that badly we'll send direct to the company and let themau fer the fag. Clara has told you abo t t _ l~crease of salarybeginning with January 1920, which adds 200.00 to our income. dwhat is still better,perhaps, is tIle provision t at when e go on fur­lOUgh there will be no cut as there has been heretofore. So hateverlittle extras we'll be needing we C&TI provide for, especi lly since

yo' folks are helping out on the support of soue of our students,andthe Finance Co ittee will quite probably ake s a speci-l allowancefor this work as soon as Centenary funds are avail ble. This is aterrible time for us out in est China,however; the Chi.ese all ex­

pecting us to make good our pro~iBes in t e Centenary camoaign sincet~ey have turned over the money r~ised locally. But owing·to the terribledrop in the value of gold we dare not bring out much money froc Amer ca

t the present time and they will have to wait. e are some 50,0 0short of what we need for actual work now under way owing to this reason.

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r quite Ion tl e at T echow,uietly the r tives ainedrh sday mornin ,three days

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We were kept in uncertai ten the Yunnanese ente ed Tz c11.oe nd consented to our l~'vi~ 0than wed first ex ect d.

Perh pa, if the peo Ieearer 'nd ne er to Che tu the wo_

i. and e ould still have been I 0 .Four mil s west of Tzechow e C' e 0vQ.nce ,-:,uard and 1'0 there 0 ev n ..1i1een. Tlen j t s we ~ C D e

re r-ruard of the ·tre tilto ait 11. If hour or I erlast they let us thru, ow ve ,trip as pI nn d, gettin in 0

It was a fortunate thithe inns, houses, d st ects W it with Szechweee soldiers. Both we and our oixtee. load and l' carriers had

to sleep in the chapel. e had t i~l to plan Justsuch an em r-ency, as e feared not only tho 1 ck of prlv: c nd crowdin in the

inn but also the reat r discomfort of bed-bugs, fleas, and body-licewhich infest the public houses duri1lb t Ie w rm weat er. This, of .course, would be re tly a av ted b tIe obs of dirty soldiers.

in addition to this, th l' 1 s be ~ q ite a scour of si ticcholera 1~ the cities of late. I 1 V n't ed to write you of thishitherto, as we ourselves were in tIe 11 st of it at .Tzechow.

This 1 tter d ger, far ore t ~1 fi ting or hot ether,made us very nxious to et to ~e hl11s. lare w re m' deaths inTzechowi I, self, s bodies I in ir. ~hc atre ts, and t 1 stwice s w the sick in the last convulsions. Just b fore we leftwe learned of one family of five 11 dyin Within a day. There weresever I c ses in our school oth amon the te chers and pu ils buta 1 recovered. Dr.Liljestrand c me do~ to Tzec' 0 for eek,but coo weather came on soon after '0 th disease subsided.

Of course the danger comes thru eating infected food ordrinking infected ter. e were 1 exceedingly careful in thesere ards, ana had all the nece8s~'y re edles on hand with instructionsfor their use.

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2tion. The authority was secur from the chief m gistr'te to conducta cle n-up campaign thruout 1e cit, 'nd at each of th t r- atesof the clty a man was stationed to cllorinate the w ter as it wa brotin by the carriers. The H nkOl edlc 1 ssociation t act on the pre­vention and cuDe of cholera was strlbutad to tl most influent1 1 menof the c ty and posted in conspicuous pl c s. In tIllS e did allwe could to alleviate the evil when we re 1thout a physician to helpus. Surely God cared for us during those days.

But to continue the account of our trip; e leftt five o'clock on Fr1d y morni • Just outside of tne vill ge

c e upon the bod of illan, prob 1 . s y, 0 had be n eheaddisembowelled and left there or the 4a ~rs-b to see ~n takein I I sup osee Such 1s tIc bar ism 0 are

e were not able to make the full eta e s we h d planned thatda. In the first place we had to stop t Tzeya to p y salaries 0the preacher and teachers, and C r tLl to co eul with them aboutschool matters. In the second place we at hundreds upon hundreds ofSzechwaneae reinforcements returning to eet t.e adv ncing Yunnanese.From that time on until we ot into C et tu on unda noon, e p ssedthese new divlsions, not to s e k of q' te a number of machine guns.However, excepti~ for the difficUlty of ettln by them on t ese verynarrow Chinese roads between rice- irll e su fered no inconvenience.

t Chintsipu t ere s no c' pel d no place in the lnn,buwe ~nd our men got permission to sleep he public sc 001 house, dthis was even better. t L ch eni, t s c pel.

They had been expectin s 1 C: • tu for ~ n' rnote tellin of the de not! rl~ ~o =-_ till" to t.e •eve i the h d had a :"0 . t .L .. lIe 1 _' to-. elly to BS. _ere (Ll s t-_E. 1

iahes of 1c.- r v di st ice-erea o.

We remain n Ch - . tIl Clar h d seve 11~l a her Village sehoolAte&chers a in in the s erNorma school t the universit to m t t em. Besidesshe wanted to consult ith ot rs ao e new teachers ofwestern sub ects for ext ye~ , n teac era' insti~ute

at Tzechow at th beginn n of the As for myself, I askept bue with the Chen tu ~em e' Committee oing overour est1 tes for next yeara work re- rran t them ccording toth special letter of inforl tio~ eived from t e Bo rd at home.

By the way, I wonder i I e. lained to you why I said th tCentenary ifts would not. eet our ~1 I nee s in the support of stu-dents, and aaked you to pI c the one to our account at gome while weJaid it out from our a salary h re. e had eceived no letter e _plaini the Board's method of proc e t th t ti e. nor indica-tion t t we would be allo ed any mone~ .Lor stUdent help. e had beentold that all speci i ts 00 J uar 1st 0 this e would be ap­plied u on our S e 0 C nte y funds, LO ever, hic our Financ Co-mittee interpreted to mean t t duri Cente ar period, e 0 dbe short some 0, • 1n speci I i ts m c ad hitherto formed p tof our normal income. It ou tIll 11CO. e . au! b lncre a d som atby the Centenary , the sUbtr~ction 0 the special lfts ould leave thenet lncre se that much lese tl 0 ~10· I of adv nce called for.

lthough I as recelvln notices a suo lfts vin been rece1ved,andwas expected to write a lett r 0 prec tion to the onor, as notreceivin the c she This, 1t no . seems, s due to tl del y in theadjustment of admin1stratlve machinery 0110 n

uthe Centenar effort,

t our spec1 1 iftsItten D t' e Boar •

stuuent Id uuringHence t e solicitor

our csi nat-ed 1fteount hicl you have sub­

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~ou cart nl cccl enand l.lee Tho a wh1cn we seto d as e auld b aon b, 1sion 1th love ~hic1:l no .;' t c 1arc invitad out to dinner to la- alata of love from us both to all.