Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-16
NOTABLES FROM THE WEST
WHO ARE DOING THINGS.

never begin to receive all the students who
apply for admission What is thought OF
1t by the Chinese is apparent from the fact
that at the recent commencement three
gold watches were awarded as prizes to the
students by the viceroy. The most emf
nent and discriminating natives do honor
to DR.. Fulton, for she is a physician, an
executive and woman of unusual ability:
Her hospital is maintained on the plane or
frst-class hospitals at home; just to have
trained her staff of native doctors would
be great life work for any woman.
"The Chinese Mother Goose is Prof.
Isaac T. Headland of the Methodist Epis-
copal mission, Picking! This book brought
Prof. Headland no little reputation in
America; but his more serious hobby is
not nursery rhymes, but Chinese art. He
has the finest collection of Chinese paint
ings owned by any white man, and he is,
doubtless, the worlds leading authority on
this subject. incidentally, he is a connois-
seur on Chinese rugs. These pursuits are
merely avocations; his vocation is that
of teacher in the Picking Universityr where
several hundred young men are learning
the best that the west has to give, includ-
ing it's Christianity
Two rare men, who long headedly have
elected to be nconspicuously great in
China, rather than to stand among the
B. Galley c'Bob'' Galley, Princeton's great
est foot ball player, and C. H. Robertson.
who are associated in Y. NJ. c. A. work at
Tientsin Both are statesmen, whose
breadth of vision, altruism and nobility of
character have won the confidence of the
highest Chinese Robertson, like Galley
before him, lives in q Chinese house in the
native city, and, considering it the biggest
work open to an ambitious man, he has in
vested his personality a foundation
stone in the new China. over which he is
so enthusiastic. Both these men are truly
leaders of constituency of young Chinese.
China is full of Boxer sories, tragic and
amusing. One of the latter concerns Dr.
w. H. Park of the Southern Methodist mis-
sion, whose long service in and for 500
chow has made him one of the city's prom
inent and honored citizens. He was riding
in closed sedan chair one day during the
turbulent times of 1900, when the cry was
raised: Here comes foreigner! Kill
hm!" The mob took up the refrain, rushed
the chair opened it, and then fell back
foiled, for. the leader said: Its not a
foreigner; it's only DR.. Park
1t is rather something unusual to have a
whole warship or two in love with you,
when you already possess a husband. But
that is the unique experience of Mrs. c. A.
Nelson of the American board mission,
Canton, and Mrs. w. H. Boyd of the Pres
byterian mission. In case of trouble, the
United States government keeps a warship
up at Canton, which is hard lines for Off
GERS and men. These two young matrons
open their homes weekly to officers and
men, and both are the bellies that their
gifts and graces entitle them to be. Incl
dentally, the lonely American has a jolly
time and Is kept from the power of the
lure of the east. The government has given
medals for less worthy work than that
which is done by these two ladies. Mrs.
Nelson, by the way, conducts girls school
which is SO superfne that WI Ting Fang,
after inspecting it. promptly asked to be
permitted to send his daughter to It,
canada probably knows lie of one OF
her noblest daughters. Miss Annie H. Cow
Flu, who went through the Boxer troubles
heroically and who is still, undaunted in
spirit spending her life beautifully for a
people whom. she clearly realizes, may de-
mand her life any day. Miss Gowans la
bors under no d elusfon as to the sentiment
of the Chinese, or to the possibilities which
the future holds, but serenely, sweetly,
sunnily she moves ministeringly among the
Chinese gazing at life all unafraid, through
clear gray eyes that have seen deeply into
the great things of existence. And after
all has been said l do not know how q
woman who wants to make her life count
for the most can find a more beautiful OF
fruitful career than Miss Gowans.
Two associates and friends of Miss
Gowans are Miss Grace Newton of the
Presbyterian board and Miss Luella Miner
of the American board. Both are survivors
OF the Picking siege, the latter having writ
ten a book upon that great experience
Both are engaged in female education, will
results that would rank them in the class