The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-20

thsir .Qyn. hopes are ana they tell the truth,
700. We rive iust such lunuheUns az We would
& ho me- md 4 e amusing 70 watch them. but
How can We expect much OF. the Chinese
neso Gtersture say they've found only one Chi.
and yet the Chinese women live on Chinese 40
ton. They talk with. their servants, smoke water
HHeSSlnssso woman u, oPe any g1 po sEaoR on on n pSsp wehS:
s spS al Invitation; and many Of them grow old
their front door. No thought from the outside
world can get to Thorn, As said, they read,
Srows and drSsss their s%' hair r" "lsSor rate any that's az,
Gus Of ono ShiotSor. Jealous q attention a d
vious of anybody who has fine clothes. They are
sS% Eislii,lniE on "a OF %' our fC washes shi nns trl6ks sFS
They are crazy over American music boxes. AZ
their houses and neither do they, have ares.
garments from morning until night with their
tiny feet on 9 foot stove and road those aend.
except their husbands, Chinese girls never see
. man other than their fathers, or at least that
the general. idea prevails that 4 Chinese girl
meyer secs the face Of her 6ctrothed or he hers
same In China as Il shere. and I think that such
things as secret CT meetings between lovers are
a house with. a woman under It, When / arst
that character. I thought It meant that in
every house where a woman was established
s%sf, S oSs e pss that. O set : me- Shi ssssir mnsRS; y f teIli { xf ms
the character meant that IL You wanted to have
RR ssassH y9 SSo m nssf . asse t q fo %9S Sinai IN th in G sShss.
IL was not started for the sake of beauty. but to
keel, the women at home. Oh; the terrors of
old who have never walked u step and require
two ahntdhs or nurses to care for them. We've
mahs1 apply FOR entrance At our school. but we
eonld not take the poor little things. AS bad as
f CHINA bin Sna that ,si f Is the IS ws sS% in Rhisb T sbs @d in
and women are separated.
school they have to learn to dress their own
not require Them to unbind their feet, but in one
as the result OF Christian teaching. Out Of over
forty.two only ten are left who have bound feet.
ucated himself at Vanderbilt. University in
Tennessee; He is the present Minister OF Edu.
snsss fs at ssGnl x;i ias f zap Rln Of e Sbo sb sss i sim a
]onation Of, the Car. Mi. and Mrs. Yum hsvea
would never have married her had she not been
sent TO our school,. He is . great friend of Bish-
OF Virginia. Another, girl married Theodore
WaunE, who graduated from the University Of
Mr.. Pott, Dean OF st. Johns College in Shang.
hal. and will become q missionary to his
own people. That reminds me that Mrs. Pott:
and most intellectual friends ! have. She has
adopted foreign methods Of living, dressing.
professor in the Angio.Chinese College. Her
husband received an offer of eighty taels a
English and refused It. preferringt to teach in a
Christian school at 1926 a month and furnishing
Zone Of our girls. whose father has three
wives. told him what lovely girls we had In the
school. He went to q lady in Shanghai and
one Of our Christian girls with big, feet for his
fourth wife. as he he thought she would be better
I'VE have a little literary society in our school
called the W%ightman Society, after the widow
woman who has done ~ much rs any other in
the South toward ehliRhtening tho Chinese.
There are eighteen members in the society.
know enough English to conduct the meetings
in English. A girl who forgets and speaks in
for each word. The girls read short stories. pre-.
pare original papers, and have discussions;
is Timothy Quest by Kate Douglas Wiegin,
and they are also very fond OF BRIDES Christ.
%%s GssS'; ar BY t tsis ss%e aq Heoyeu o1nsFs q 'h .hsie
Men and Little Women, and Frances Ridley
M . ;c books oRs roI Gy Mys T Hsns thy h h,s,s a
Pillows in English. They make n prayer in
Chinese. and end up with the Lords PRAYER in
English. and they had been doing this n year be-
fore the teachers found 1t ont. They
have a little library of 200 books, and ]
say the hest way to teach the Chinese
girls to keep Sunday is to put bright
American stories with plenty Of pictures
into their hands. l am trying to collect some
books and pictures to take back to them.
though I won't be in the school any more. for
we. of course. shall live in Pekin. Tho Chinese
girls knew nothing of sports until the McTycre
school was opened. We have taught them Irwn
tennis and croquct. and they arc fond OF physical
culture. especially dunbbell exercises.
when We get established in Pckin and Mr..
Reid gets the International Institute under way.
] am going to work among high-class women as
BIO does among the men. / shall set apart one
day in every week to receive then! socially
in my own home and after I gain their con-
hdence ! shall open a kindergarten for their
little children. Then l shall establish classes
for the women of the institute and give
them musical and literary entertainments.
The Chinese women have a great deal
of curiosity about foreign people and their ways.
and my effort shall he to teach them all ! can
about our beautiful home life and the human
sympathy and understanding thai exist he.
tween the sexes. I'm trying TO collect rs many
pictures of American home life "a possible and
pictures representing Bible truths to take to
Pckin with me. They are fond of their chill
dren and spoil them dread fully. an II Is really
through the little folks that I cyp@ct to RET the
strongest hold on the parents. Woman nature
is woman nature the world over. and the mother
heart is the same everywhere