The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-17

women wear the largest hat known
z to the milliners art. 1t Is shaped
like n dredging scow, and is full
three feet in diameter. and will hold a
bushel and half of grain. The hat
is meant to conceal the face--which
d 1t does, and the upper third Of the
body as we'll.
The congregation was quiet alert
and reverent At prayer they oil
bowed forward, with their heads to
the ground. Missionary Lee led the
music with a coronet. and the peoplo
sang Justify. Everybody carried BIZ
BILE and followed the Scripture read
ing. The address was listened to with
all the intentness and responsiveness
that any speaker could desire. At Its
close the leaders and many of the
other men crowded to the platform to
speak with their beloved "Moksa," or
pastor It struck me that this Korean
missionary, and many Of his nssoci-
ates, have work and an opportunity
which the ablest preacher In America
might coYet.
How American Doctors Fit the
Orient. &.
Ono Of the first facts about tho mis-
sionary community here which strikes
a visitor Is the harmony and co-opera-
|
sions. The missionaries are the only
white people in Pyeng Yang. except
one French tradesman and q French
| priest. Their social solidarity Is as
marked as the unity OF their labors.
1 Tho only place in Pyeng Yang for
white traveller to lodge is in the homes
OF the missionaries, and during the
war many newspaper correspondents
had occasion to bless the hospitality
! Of the missionaries
The three hospitals are run as one.
although maintaining, in some re-
spects. their seperate identity. The
largest is the Prcsbyt terrain hospital
I conducted by DR.. ]. II. Wells, and min
istering to about 10000 patients a
1 year. DR.. Il. D. Follwell. at tho Meth
4 odlst hospital, treats about 5000. and
i DR.. Hail. whose work Is entirely for
4 women, about 5000 patients Il year.
I Jointly. the two men doctors are train-
ing twenty-five students. who not only
Z pay for their Instruction, and for the
privilege of working In the hospital,
but are also required to do evangels-
tic work among til epatients. One
4 notable characteristic OF these hos
pitals which are almost entirely self
81 supporting, IS tho adaptation to the
Korean style Of living.
While they. have wards containing
beds, most of their patients sleep on
the floor. as in their own homes and
are there treated Like Korean houses
these wards have heated floors. DR.,
Wells has been consplcuously success
full in curing the morphine habit.
which the Japanese have introduced
among the Koreans
Adaptation Is one OF the character
! lstics of nilsson work in Pyeng Yang
! Approaching the city. tho visitor can-
not Mt first distinguish the missionary
I compounds from the native homes al
I the residences and the school build.
ings. and all except ono of the
churches (the Methodist, are built II
native sty.e. Tho Interiors of the
homes are naturally adapted to the
use Of Americans, and yet they az,
small and simple dwellings,,
!. Teaching the East to Hustle.
al The schools are cooperative Re II
: understood that there is no publ,
school system throughout Korea, Be
) fore the missionaries came, the highe
: class boys were taught the Chimes,
Z classics The creation OF the popula
{ taste for learning, as we'll as the pro
s ductlon of most or the literature /,
q the language OF the plain people. ma,
|. be credited to the missionaries. 1t 4
y quite general for native churches t,
u maintain primary schools for secula
i Instruction
t There are In this district at lens
: three higher academies, and the dc
q mands for education are by no mean
+, met 1t Is probable that the mission
aries VIII soon have to forego al
:. direct teaching and become snpern
s tendents OF instruction, The strate
u gical Importance to Christianity o
. thus having n controlling hand upo
q the education of the nation is apparent a
Q II glance.
o In pyeng Yang proper are thrc
9 noteworthy schools, One Is the col
d lege. with 800 students, all OF whoI
J. are Christians and all of WHOM
! PISS II stiff entrance examination
9 This is taught by both Methodist am
Presbyterian missionaries and by ma
y tive teachers. 1t Is expected shortl
to grow into Christian college wit
d q thousand students, There Is also
r. girls high school with half u hundre
y students. was much struck With tn
It Industrial school attached to the co
Q lege, where some students work the
s. way through an eaucntlon. Hare the
y have a genuine blacksmith shon, IN;
le chino shop and carpenter shop, all