The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-08-15
TWO CHINESE WOMEN NJ. DIS.
They Graduate from Ann Arbor Med
zeal College With HOnOrs.

zeal College With HOnOrs.
New York Herald.
Ida Kahn and Meiyii SHE are distin-
guished as being the only Chinese girls
graduated from Ann Arbor University
Michigan, and have returned to their ma
tive land to practice medicine, having
taken their degree of doctor of medicine.
Meyii SHE anglicised her name, and was
known as Mary Stone while at the univer-
sity. Both girls were great favorites with
their mates. and Ida Kahn was made Sec
rotary of her class. They dressed in Amer
lean style, except upon high days and holt
days, at commencement and when they
took their degrees, when they donned the
pretty garb of their own nation.
These enterprising young women have al
ready begun practice among some of the
influential Chinese families and are rem
dering most valuable service, so writes
their friend, Miss Gertrude Howe. They
Miss Howe is a missionary, connected
with the Methodist Mission at Kiukang,
and it was she, who became interested in
these girls and brought them to this coun-
try about six years ago to be educated.
So thorough had been their instruction in
English and other studies obtained in mis-
sionary schools established in China that
when they entered the university at Ann
Arbor they passed successfully the exam
OF medicine and surgery, from which they
finally were graduated with honors This
eeXamination required an essay written in
English, correct in spelling. capital letters
and paragraphing, Latin, physics, zoology,
algebra, geometry and history
They speak English admirably with just
a suggestion of accent, and they write
charming letters, expressed perfectly and
written in neat, legible hand.
The four years course in the medical de-
partment required hard and incessant work.
The course of instruction for women is In
all respects the same as that for men:
Nothing daunted these brave Acknowledged
damsels. They took up every study in it's
turn and went in for bacteriology electro>
therapeutics and all the other brain-wear-
of M re-
in the hospital, where they performed oper-
atoms, dressed wounds. made diagnoses ana
wrote prescriptions. Sinking no duty, how
ever disagreeable. That they will prove very
popular with their patients in far-off China
is beyond doubt, for to their skill they add
patience, kindness and gentleness.
When they were little girls they went to
school to learn to read and write, as they
belonged to the better class AS rule, girls
in China never go to school, unless they
have rich parents The first day of the
school year each scholar brings a little mon
ey about thirty cents each, and a feast
is prepared, to which the parents are in
vited and the idol is set up. This idol is
a long and narrow piece OF red paper, upon
which the teacher puts the name of the
the year, and hangs the paper on the wall.
One of the rules of a Chinese school is
that the scholars must come to school be-
fore daylight In the morning, study aloud
for two hours, and then recite their lessons.
After this they go home to breakfast, but If
any one has failed to recite the lesson no
Having had their breakfast, they study
again until it is time for dinner, after which
they return again to the school and study
the lessons for the following day. By this
time it is night. This goes on seven days
of the week, as there is no Saturday holt
day, and, of course, no Sunday. At night,
before leaving school. each pupil walks up
to the idol which hangs on the wall and
bows down to it. On the last day of school
before summer vacation a cake, made or
sugar cane, is offered to the idol, which is
then taken down and burned, because the
next year they will have a new one,