The Marietta journal and courier. (Marietta, Ga.) 1909-1918, 1911-09-15
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Miss Mamie Myers, a missionary to
Corea, now visiting her cousin. Miss
Mary Reynolds, brought a multitude
Of strange and interesting things
from her home in Wonsan. Corea. and
they came packed in pojaggy. You
could never imagine what manner of
suit case that is so / will confide the
truth of the queer receptacle A DO
1aggy is nothing but a piece of linen.
two yards long and one yard wide
with long ribbon at one end to tie
II up when 1t is full. But space will
not allow even a mention of all the
articles Miss Myers transports in
hers. There are things useful. orna-
mental and MISUNDERSTANDING CEN
terpleces of embroidery and drawn
work, shoes, hats and thimbies. Also
one tiny metal pipe with a reed stem
a yard long. The thimbles are made
OF silk and embroidered in flowers
and notices. In place of being used
on the middle finger they are worn
on the first finger. Miss Myers has
brides wedding dress, presented by
her pupils. 1t has two loosely-woven
silk skirts, a dark blue over a Grim
son and the waist is of pink brocaded
satin. The substitute for a veil is an
arrangement of brown brocaded rib
bon and some kind of red semi.
precious stone.
The rain shoes are of hard wood
with two high heels in the middle.
the ordinary shoes are woven of straw
or thread on what seems to be a
wire frame. House shoes are of cloth
and silk.
Inc letter paper and envelopes are
very pretty in dainty feminine way.
The paper comes in rolls with birds
or flowers on it at intervals and the
envelopes are long and narrow, open
ing at one end. When you finish a
letter you cut it from the roll and
fold 1t to fit the envelope.
There is a little round straw cush-
Ion worn on the head to protect bur-
den bearers. The Cinema" which is
used as light wrap, enveloping the
head also, looks like a long old-fash-
Toned house-keeper's apron with a
very wide belt.
For a heavy cloak a woman wears
one of her husbands coats in the
same way without putting her arms
through the sleeves All the cloth
ing is of many bright colors and the
children's sleeves look like brilliant
rainbows of stripes.
The drawn work in white linen is
quite as good as the Mexicans do and
the embroidery is very good indeed
although the butterflies must be ne
culiar to Corea from their shape and
colors.
Miss Myers is slender blonde with
f1axen hair and blue eyes that are
very pretty but she says the dark
Coreans do not admire her appear
ance. She wore a blue linen dress
with beautiful white flowers embroid-
cred in French knots over the front
OF the waist and, except the long
sleeves and close high collar, it was
quite like the dresses our girls wear,
although it was embroidered and
made in Corea.
The most interesting thing, how
ever, is a scrap-book bound in birch
bark and filled with photographs Of
the teachers, pupils and missionaries
with schools and Corean landscapes.
ha1
ments in Chinese and Corean charac-
ters-each one being a word in itself
as we have been told.
Some time ago | asked Miss Ellen
Stone, who had been held prisoner by
some bandits in Bulgaria, to tell me
what induced and upheld missiona-
ries in heather lands. She replied by
this illustration: A converted boy
who had learned carpentry in a mis-
sion school went home and built a
window in the dark little hut where
his mother lived and the sunshine
pouring in transformed his home and
changed his mothers gloomy irrita-
ton with surroundings into almost
joyful content. 1t was better than a
lighted lamp in a dark room. So,
Miss Stone said, missionary opens
the windows of human souls to the
Sun of Righteousness.
Miss Myers assured me that she
was fully recompensed for all her
hard work in the evident results She
is a consecrated Christian and feels
that she was divinely called to the
foreign field of missions.
A. l.. G.