The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-05-14

Then, or course, the language IS llellS and Eley know the customs of the peo- ple which is such an advantage. l felt so helpless in so many ways. l remem-
 Der once going with Mrs, Harding around to some of the houses; wherever we went we were received with the
 greatest cordiality; they would put out
 mat for us to sit on; they would often
 cover us with garlands of flowers; they
 would do this, that and the other to
 show their appreciation. But one place
 we went into there was nothing of the l kind; We were not asked to sit down;
 there was nothing brought for us, and
 the woman looked at us as if we were invaders. Mrs. Harding said a few words which, of course, I couldn't un- derstand; had learned to use one word
 while l was in India and said it, sup
 posing 1t would please the woman to
 say that as we went out of the door,
 but it seems that in that case that was
 entirely the wrong thing to say; it
 meant with her why we want some
 thing or other. You see what mis-
 take it was? She looked more defiant
 and more vindictive than ever when l
 tried to make a little polite salutation.
 You know what a\ \polite people the Japanese are; how they bow and bow,
 and how careful they are about their etiquette l know this made great impression upon me once when we were
 at Nikko. We went up to the beautiful
 lake outside of the city, and We had
 Jinrikisha men with us. There were
 three of us and there were six men; and
 when we came down they had, it seem-
 ed to me, a very hard pull up the moun-
 tain and down again, and so l thought
 l would like to give them a little extra
 money; so I did. I gave it to the head
 man, ten cents apiece; and l gave it to
 him and l went into the hotel and
 somebody called my attention, and l
 looked back and there were all six of
 those JinrilIisha men, and they said,
 There she is; there she is" And they
 were all lowing, lowing, lowing, dOz-
 en times apiece; somehow 1 have the
 impression they may be lowing still I
 never should have thought of it; it nev-
 CT would have occurred to me. Then I
 remember, too, man coming to see me
 one day in Yokohama; he sat down and
 tried, in the most spluttering and gurg-
 ling English that l ever heard anybody
 try, to talk. He began to talk with me
 and asked me a few questions And af-
 ter Q while it dawned upon me that l
 was being interviewed by a newspaper
 reporter, and of course l was curious to
 see what he said afterwards. After
 wards I received a paper with a trans
 lation of what he had said. He describ-
 ed me as a young lady of fifty l was
 glad, I must say, to be called a young
 lady once more, because in China they
 were constantly telling us how old we
 were, how gray our hairs were; that
 Is the very polite thing to say in China; the best thing they can say is to tell a
 person they are old, and of course we
 don't exactly appreciate it. But, then, . to be called a young lady of fifty, Then it said she had @ bold, man piercing eye, and that the words rolled out of
 her mouth like the rolling of a ball. Well, it seemed very strange, of course , to be described in this way. The Jap anese have such a hesitatng, halting
 way of talking, and perhaps that would explain this expression of rolling out like ball. And yet to know that I had , a man-piercing eye rather took me back in a way, and so I could see how the foreigners look. You know the Japan csc go this way; they never look up or sit up straight in a chair. They sit on | the floor, and they look around in this
 way
 And so I could see what a power these Christian workers had among 7 their countrymen. Then, of course t they themselves are great object les. } sons. And their homes-but I haven't time to go into that. But I wish } could tell you just about one or two ot | l them.
 5 You have heard a good deal about the - women of India. l remember one wo = man in China AS I listened to her his l tory it was extremely interesting; she [ had wandered in one day from the l street into the chapel and she had lis tened a little; then she had gone away 3 and came another day and listened she became interested, and then after { [ while she began to think she wanted tC [ be a Christian. And so the spirit hat - touched her heart.
 t But it was so hard to give up all thost l old customs. Well, she came to Miss . Murray and she brought her tobacco e ptpe. She said, If I am a Christian y woman I must give up tobacco; here it T my pipe" Then in a great while after I wards she came to Miss Murray ant $ brought a pack of cards. She said, "I V I am to be a Christian woman I an c told I cannot gamble any more; her r are my cards" And the last thing tha 2 she gave up seemed to be the hardes !, thing to do-to unbnd her little daugh b. ter's feet; that was the one thing sh - felt as if she couldn't do. Miss Murra. - was firm; the child couldn't come int t the school unless her feet were un n bound. The woman said it was tn y husband who objected, and finally Mis- V Murray got them both together in tn s room and asked them why they couldn' ;, unbind the child's feet After a lon o time she came and said, "The child e feet may be unbound" In that coun 2; try 1t is a good deal as if you were t l. send one of your children out in tn y city street barefOoted. It is very har n for them to do it. She told Miss Nun D ray afterwards; she said: When q gave you my pipe. when l gave you m t cards, when I unbound my little daugh e ter's feet, there were three times whe y I felt that l had given myself again t ?, the Lord Jesus Christ" Miss Murra r- said was So anna rant in bar lifo.