The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1911-06-23


that OF supervisor Of a district Tn.
der her direction, many native Ko-
reans are employed to teach their
countrymen and women christianity
and modern civilization.
Miss Martin was sent back to this
country to accompany DIR. Forsythe
and his sister, also missionaries, who
were attacked by an ailment known in
the far east as the "sprue." Miss Mar.
tin brought the sick missionaries to
| Louisville, KY, and after a short stay
In Chicago she came here.
Tomorrow she will go to st. Joseph,
| Mo-, the headquarters of the Southern
Presbyterian mission, and thence she
will go to Atchison. Kan, her home.
| She will return to Korea, to take up
her work in the province of Chulla in
September. She will probably stay
there about four years.
II like Korea very much" she says.
| THE climate is good and the people
need some one to tell them how to
live. The Koreans are easily educat-
ed and once they become christianized
they are apt scholars. The girls are
quick to learn, and the men of Korea,
who once thought the women their
slaves, are beginning to realize this.
| The husbands, after becoming chris
tians, teach their wives and they even
admit that the women and girls are
| quicker to learn than the boys"
| Travels Far Alone.
| Miss Martin speaks the Korean dia-
iects fluently and without any white
companion has travelled hundreds of
miles inland, teaching the natives the
gospel. Once she made trip alone
! to an island south of Seoul where she
was stationed for some months, being
the only white person among thou
sands of natives. Miss Martin be-
lieves that the Koreans understand
christianity better than many white
people who, she says, take it for grant
ed that they know all about the Cos
pei.
The bubonic plague, which has kill
ed hundreds of natives recently, did
not reach the district in which Miss
| Martin was engaged. The city in
which she lives has population of
1900 people and the houses are built
of the best material. Some of them
are constructed with natural stone,
brought from a nearby mountain. Be-
fore she left this city the Japanese
were building railroad to Seoul,
which journey was made heretofore by
boat
Speaking of the Japanese, Miss Mar
tin declares that the Koreans are sub
hitting to the conquerers of Russia,
and that the little Japs are making
great improvements in their new pos
session.
Japs Make Progress.
Before the Japanese took Korea the
cattle were used as horses are used
here. They were also killed for meat.
When the Japanese came the cattle
were experimental upon and now a
fine dairy has been established in
Chulla province, and the missionaries,
who have been used to canned milk
and canned butter, are able to enjoy
fresh butter and cream. Besides this
improvement, the japanese are intro
ducing scientific farming in Korea.
Rice and barley and a few vegetables
were the only products raised by the
Koreans before the Japanese came.
Now there have been experimental
farms established. Cotton is growing
well, and orchards with many fruit
trees have been set out. The Koreans,
says Miss Martin, have found that
there is no use trying to thwart the
Japanese, so now there is q good feel
ing existing between the two coun-
tries, and the Koreans are helping the
Japs make the country yield to their
needs. The chief food of the Koreans
is rice and fish. They seldom eat but
ter or drink milk.
They Relish Dog Meat.
One choice morsel, however, of the
natives is dog meat. Dogs whose own.
ers pay no dog tax are killed and put
on sale at the meat markets. "Often
| have seen from five to nine dead
dogs, ready to be cut up and sold for
food in Korea" says Miss Martin 81
have known of mad dog being killed
and eaten by native"
Miss Martin does not believe that
there will ever be war between Japan
and the United States. 1--WE never
; hear such talk in Korea or Japan
she says. Zone Japanese has told me
that Japan has had plenty of fighting
He never wants to see war again.
believe the war talk between the Unit.
ed States and Japan is only paper
talk"
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