The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-03-13
KNITTING CHINA TOGETHER
CHANGES T1B RAILROAD Il
BRINGING ABOCT.
= selbSsI system Ter loO. Goa. OsSO hl,.
aren-.An American Wemaa Nhs ).
Caring Ter Chinese Deaf Mute,
-Dewradntisn % the American War

The next time 4 90 20 fekln m
going to pack q lunch basket and e. 100,
aud have a picnic on the Great Wa 3D.,
China and come hack by the ev-ru.
train said Mrs. c. n. Mills.
Mrs Mills. who In staying with t.r
daughter at Isl East Seventy-first stree
has spent the last twenty-five year, %
China. where she conducts the only
school for deaf mutes in that country
Just before her return to America 'sr
months ago she took a trip Of 500 mrI--
through China. visiting sixteen 81 iNa
largest cities. travelling by river hoat,
coast steamers and railway.
To cross China by rail was ,srv
strange sensation TO me. said she m 10.
scribinG the journey. after travelling
a. I have for twenty-five years past 20
China. ON donkeyback. in q sedan char
or a Pekin cart. This century will
the completion OF I.Oo0.OOO miles Of RAJ
road in China. Four thousand mile- az.
now completed and 5000 more are IN
process OF construction.
What the railroad means TO China n,
foreigner can conceive. IL IN knitting
the whole country together. making Il
Homogeneous in q way il never was 10.
fore The number OF Chinese who travel
by rail 10 remarkable. The third class car
are always crowded. the second class ar.
hardly lea 80. and even the first class are
filed with the Official class in their silk,
zatins and furs.
The Chinese like TO travel. They 's.-
it calmly and arrive az their destinA ton
an fresh and cool az when they started.
The trains are on time too. without any
Of the fuss and confusion which seems h.
he necessary here. Everything move
smoothly.
The Journey from Pekin tn HankoN
can h taken in great comfort. Their
10 a dining car attached. or you can buV
good food through the window trvm
statesmen on the platform. ! bought
whole roast chicken for ~ cents In this
manner. had a very good lunch served
in my own compartment from thu din~r
for rs cents.
From Pekin you 70 north 20 tho
Ming tombs by a short railroad huli
entirely by the Chinese under the dire.
ton % a young man educated In this
country. There 10 no foreign cApi,,
in IT, Il 10 planned to extend this Tosi
north to join the great route which VII
bring China within fourteen days NJ
London.
The last thiTt~en miles Of the trip tooA
on a donkey in the old way. hut tho new
time I 20 the road will 10 finished H.
this isst stresch we met huge strings II
pack camels. could not help thinking
that perhaps t was the last time wo,bt
ever see these caravans which have
moved through China for COUNTLESS cen
turies. The railroad viii soon retire IN"
last % them.
During this trip ! cav a strange lit'ls
temple high up in the face Of . cltH AZ 4
point 80 inaccessible that not even
hermit had ever used w. II has remained
unused since ire erection. ] learned hs
Fears ago q youth from q little village
vas on his way - take the competitive
examination which used 20 call togeth@T
the young men from all over China
Those huge old examination halls are nos
being rased TO the ground all over China
To BE- replaced by modern universiti~-
This boy Tell sick AZ this point. He there
upon made q vow IN some native goo
that u he r:covsrsd and p~ssed me ~
to this god q temple I'm the face OF IN"
clin above. where never temple had been
or would he built again.
He recovered. Was sue ceesful. and hs
and his kin built the temple. Tho story
! illustrates the great Chsseae characters
tics Of fidelity and persistence. which the
modern world will have 60 reck on VIII
when China becomes a world nation.
china 10 in the process 81 estaDlish
ing public school system which reauirss
en- Oo0 OOO new text books for the lO'
GD. an children Of school age whom u vii
gather in IL IA being established nv
Ven Sho. who 10 cOnsidered the hr-
scholar IN China saw the WORK an
meni schools They we're remarkable
especially in manual WORK
There are now en- periodicals and 9sI
daily papers printed lin China. IN Pek'n
is published the WomdRS .Iosrnal IN"
only ~omans daily in Asia. OF in th-
world 80 far A. | know The editor v
daughter of one Of the principal famlhs-
in the city ] was Interested IN reading
her editorial comment on the morning
after my meeting there. She said:
What are We thinking ~ To allow
foreign woman ca come here and estah
lish q work like this?'
That 10 tho spirit ~ modern chin,
They want everything valuable IN Wsa'
ern civilization and they blame themSelye-
when they permit foreigners to show
them their need before they SO IL then
selves
In China the deaf are summed AMI
despised by the masses az poaseseed hv
evil spirits. The blind are left tn -
what ssistenRnce they can from volun
tary charity and the insane ar. cage
like wild beasts. The Chinese are no
wanting In humanity. IL has Simply
urNeE betu INV NuHtOul NO dAFN TOT NV
classes in the modern way and the,
gard the American system Of caring Co.
and educating such people AZ nothiu.
short Of miraculous.
In our school We teach deaf NUTS ~
speak. ] took . group Of our ppp'i-
with mo on this trip and demonstrate
their education in fifty meetings whirl
were attended by over thirty thousand
Chinese The officiai classes were -ps
cially invited and Everywhere som" ~
them attended Their astonishment ~
III" WORK done by these children vas -
great that at times they could hard
express IL. They almost doubted 80
evidence Of their own senses.
The degradation OF our AmeuCar
nag in Chinese cities ought 60 be stoppFi
said Mrs. Mills. for the sake OF the deem
Americans living in China. The hsg
habttually kept floating over place "'
such character that no decent Wou..1
can Use it In China. even in our Fourt
July celebrations. We have been for.'
Ia banish our national Tag from o..
homes and schools because u would In