Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-03-30
GOES AS A MISSIONARY
MISS SADIE HARBAUGH ON HER WAY
TO COREA.
Writes EntertnininEIy of Her Expert
ences En- ROute-Her Arrival
at NaEasaki.

MI Geo. w. ttarDdugn, an inspector III
the District street cleaning department, has
received an interesting letter from his
daughter Sadie who sailed from San Fran
cisco the list of last month for Corea
where she will be engaged in missionary
work. Miss Harbaugh is a member of the
Mt. Vernon NJ. E. Church South of this
city, and graduated for missionary work in
the Scarritt Bible and Training School at
Kansas City, Mo.
In her letter she says, in part:
I'VE had a very rough trip over, and
were overdue at Yokohama. which was
something so very unusual for the steamer
China, as she is considered the best of the
Pacific liners. that it caused some uneasi-
ness there. There was not any time, how
ever, during the trip that l felt a particle
of uneasineSS, although some Of the pas
sengers, l think, would have been more at
ease on terra firma But it was hard to
make time. One day | heard one of the
officers say that We Were not making one
mile in two hours. However We did not
reach the Japanese coast in typhoon sea-
son, which is something to be thankful for.
The China went through an awful one on
the trip she made in September, the same
on which i was to have come, so l missed
that by not coming al that time.
Fortunate in Finding Friends.
I'VE reached Nagasaki February 26,
until Friday before getting a steamer to
Chcmulpo, CoIea. 1 will reach Seoul March
4 or ), which will be six weeks from the
time 1 left Kansas City. The wife of the
United States consul at Nagasaki was on
board the China and at Yok na, where
We stopped twenty-four hou- she sent n
letter by train to NagaSaki, addressed to
the principal of the Methodist Girls School,
telling her 1 was on the way and so they
were expecting me. and / am now stopping
at the school. They have $50 girls here,
and four ladies are carrying on the work,
which certainly seems to be a fine and
prosperous one One of the ladies, a girl
not much older than myself, belongs in
northern China, and was in Pekin the eight
wee ks the foreigners We're shut in there
during the summer. She is working in this
school until she can go back to China.
Some of the missionaries are already
leaving for western China. There were a
man and his family aboard our steamer
who are going a six weeks journey into
the interior of China. after reaching Shang-
hal; and two young ladies left here few
days ago, going to the same place. Com
pared to these places, Corea seems very
near. indeed, to civilization.
AS far as some of the Japanese towns
and Chinese coast cities are concerned, one
might as well be in a European or Ameri-
can city, for there are so many Europeans
end Americans here. Corea would be pref
ty much the same, l guess, but that it is
somewhat off the beaten track and off of
the line of American and European steam
ships. 1 go there by Japanese boat.
However, they tell me there is one rail-
road there, twenty miles in length. In
Japan there is one the whole length of the
country and in Seoul there is an electric
street car line, which they say looks very
funny running down the main street of
the town, with its mud huts and matched
roofs on either side. l think, however 1
shall be glad to see this product of west
ern civilization, even if it does not harmon
lie with its surroundings.
The Japanese islands ere perfectly beauti-
full. We came down through the inland
sea, which is considered fine bit of seem
cry. Nagasaki is quaint and pretty, as are
all the Japanese towns | have seen. There
is little or no stretch Of level land, and SO
the town is built up on the mountain side
which is terraced in very regular way,
every house being built on a level place;
and they rise tier above tier. The effect
is pretty, and taken as a whole, it makes a
pleasing picture. The whole town seems to
be right at you, and you can see every
part of it, but when you go to winding in
and out up the terraces a house is not so
near as it looks to be.
YOkOhama's Cleanliness.
The Japanese towns are not at all like
those of China. 1 went all through the
native part of Yokohama and it was Just
as sweet and clean and wholesome as one
could wish. The streets were narrow, but
row street is not as dtsag agreeable as it is
where the houses are high. We went
around in jinrkshas, which are two-wheel-
ed baby carriages hauled by the natives.
1t was a funny experience, and l felt that
l was doing something silly and childlike
The Japanese are cute little people, the
women especially.
I'VE stopped for twenty-four hours at
Honolulu. and 1 was very much interested
In our new possessions. The islands are
mountainous. and | never saw more beauti-
full hills. They are covered with a lux
uriant and brilliant vegetation, are ir-
regular in formation and picturesque Hon
olulu is on strip of land by the sea, and
the mountains behind make a splendid
background. 1t looks very much like an
American town. The streets. stores and
houses are pretty much the same but no.
where in the United States is there such
luXuriant foliage. The trees, or some of
them, are of wonderful size and such vege-
tation l never saw. One of the Methodist
missionaries came aboard to see U.S. He
told us he was the next-door neighbor to
the former queen. l was sorry not to see
her. l saw the former palace of the kings
a beautiful residence, the place where the
legislature now meets.
English and American Formulation.
There are not many natives in Honolulu
They do not seem to be more numerous
than are the colored people in our own
cities. The population is largely American
and English. The natives are out on the
plantations. The islands are thoroughly
Christian. 1 doubt If there Is town in the
United States that is more Christian than
is Honolulu
There are boarding in the house here
four or five United States army nurses. I
think they have all recently come from
Manila. 1 think it Is so fortunate that the
mission houses open their doors and well
DpODfa n
cially would not have a very pleasant time
Of it if they did not take us in and make
US at home.''
Easter Lilies and Flowers
At Studer's Store, ia 18th ST. nw-Advt