Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-12-17

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clark. of our city, we are per-
. nrint another very interest
go. from their daughter, Miss
''1 Clark. who is stationed at Nam
china. where she is a teacher
.hool for the native Chinese
v..kipe. China, Nov. IL, 1904.
], Papa and Mammal l received
,.,tor a few days ago and was
lad TO hear from you. | sup
= IA pouring rain so you can
i, Get out. In my last letter
y, sou Of the rain when l got here.
!, has cleared off, and we have
rlaving tennis for the last week
|I,drs / have just come in from
..me with the Danenberg's. They
wib us yet, waiting for their
~ when it comes, they go on
: Che Foo, a place about 100
farther inland than Nanking.
4 Alma Favors, who was formerly
San Francisco, but is now at Lu
a Eoo. is here now staying with us.
4 came down on purpose to get them
- tbem mn to Lu Che Foo.
4 sse they don't know the way,
4 can't speak Chinese, so they
Ina probably get ON the wrong boat
4 90 in the wrong direction unless
hod some one to show them the
a i,osetber there are six of us in the
"a now, besides five servants, so
have quite a family. The serv-
don't live in the same house we
that is, the men servants don t,
tbey live on the same compound.
ara are four men servants, a cook,
|bOuse.boy, a gateman and a night
lehman. and one woman servant
woman does the bedroom work.
+. hes care of the upstairs and looks
Ter our clothing. That is, she does
darning, mending and such. A
N days ago | started to wash my
!, and she saw me and came and
Ok nv hair out of my hands and did
\ washing herself. She did it better
Ian could have done it, too. Well
|at is the way they do things here
Yesterday afternoon we were invited
N TO take tea with a Chinese family
wish you could have seen that tea
bic. tell you, they believe in eat
= here. There were cakes of many
{ nds, eight kinds, / think, besides
CARED lotus seeds, figs and sweeteneC
butts We don't know what lotu'
eds are in America, at least l nevel
bw any, but they eat them very
|uch here. l like them, too. OF course
Americans have regular American
bod cooked in American style, but w
et these other things when we g
see the Chinese. The place we Wis
Ied yesterday was the residence O.
r. and Mrs. Whan. Mr.. Whan is o
be official class, and is in the govern
lent school. He has an income o
bout 5000 Mexican money, or abou
$50 gold a month, so he is cOnsidere'
ute wealthy among the Chinese. Mrs
lhan is lovely lady, and you ough
see her house. She took us al
rough it, and it is as fresh and elesi
can be. She has it furnished most
in American style, and she hersel
IN understand British. She comes t
le school and to our house every fey
ays. She has two daughters in Mis-
yOn's school.
Last week / went down town wit
Iiss Mary Kelley, the lady evangelis
ere, and had the experience of pas
g through the center of the Oh
sse shopping portion of Nankint
his is the part that a foreign woma
ared not enter few years ago b'
'use they would have been stone
len had they entered it, and Chimes
omen entered it only in closed chair
eayily veiled so no one could sc
lem. But Miss Kelley and / Wake
long the streets without even s
ueh as veil over our faces and notl
ig was said to us. Now foreign'
IN safely go in any part of Nankinl
: we pass along the streets the PEE
Ie often stop and call out welcom
the foreign teacher" as they ca
! foreigners. The children run OF
Ito the road and hold out their hanC
I'd smile as they call uot, "Welcom
'reign madam or Welcome, 70
Ip teacher" or some such oth'
" And this from those who 10
years ago would have said "foreie
s'il' when they saw a foreigne
ne Chinese government has some TO
'ga teachers in their governmei
'nools here and at Lu Che Foo, an