Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-02-09
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Miss Lucy Startling Writes
Of Her Experiences in
Mission Field.
Nov. II. 1910.

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with our closing exercises. We had
them on the lawn, Tuesday after
! noon. and served tea to the mission
aries upstairs. There were several
songs, two drills. and a recitation.
My girls. twelve of them, had drill
with deep pink and green silk scarfs,
and it was beautiful. We had made
good many thing to sell. and they
were or tables out on the lawn.
There was big crowd of the natives
here. and they all seemed to have a
good time.
Yesterday. the memorial services
for the late king were held over in
the city (this was service by the
natives. and many heather customs
we're Observed The men of our
mission were invited. and all took
floral offerings. Mrs. McGilvary
asked me to come over and help her
with theirs. so spent most of the
morning, working on that. She had
sent to market. and gotten lot of a
white flower, that she thinks is
stephanotis. | have never seen any,
thing like it, but it grows in long
fringy clusters. like white lilac,
though it is a vine. From several
withes of bamboo we made afounda-
titn for a large wreath. Around
this. we twisted vine, that resem-
bles our Southern smilax. twisted
it around, time and again, until we
had thick back ground. and then
filled in with clusters of the white
flower. and then at the bottom, tied
streamers of white ribbon. l think
in all my life have never seen any
thing more beautiful. DR.. McGil-
vary said it was quite the handsom-
est piece they had at the services.
When we were through, Miss Buck
came over to look at it, and conclud.
ed she would like to send one from
the school. So Mrs. M. gave her
the flowers that were left. and l
made long narrow bouquet Of
them. First | twisted the vines to.
gether for foundation and back
ground. and then filled in with the
white blossoms, and tied white rib
bon at the bottom. This was quite
as pretty in its way, as the wreath.
{ though not so large or pretentious.
fSo | spent all my morning. making
. 7oral designs for dead king.
While am on the subject of fl)w.
ers. may as well tell you of some
pretty bouquets | made last week.
was over at DR.. CampbelIs about
dark. and he said there was to be a
wedding at his house that night, and
he wished | would come over. and
bring two or three of the girls as
bridesmaids. So took our three
pupil teachers over with me. l
made them long. narrow bouquets
of the pink Honolulu vine | wrote
you about, and tied each with pink
scarf. with which the girls have been
drilling. Our girls looked so sweet,
and quite outshone the bride. Our
school girls are so superior to the
other girls of this country that they
are looked up to by every body, and
the missionaries like to show them
off on occasions like this.
Miss Buck and had planned to go
up to the hill this afternoon. but it
has been raining all day. so we have
put it off. until tomorrow. | am
glad of it. for there has been so
much to dol don't see how we could
have ever gotten off. | hope to stay
up all Of next week. anyhow, and
come down early the next week. to
get ready for Annual Meeting.
which begins Dec. End. Mrs. Camp
bell is there now. and Mrs. Carr goes
up tomorrow. so we are expecting to
have quite pleasant time. DR.. c.
came down yesterday morning, and
said it is lovely up there.
Yesterday was the forty-third an
niyersary Of the coming Of DR.. and
Mrs. McGilvary to Chieng Mai. and
last night great crowd Of the ma
tives gave them sort Of a surprise
party; went over in a body. had
speeches. and presented them with a
handsome silver plate. on one end of
which had been carved apicture Of
the old bridge. which is no longer in
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