The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1913-01-30

a feast to them simply means lots
OF meats OF different kinds, so all our
chickens and lots of pork and dried
fish went into the meal. like most
everything very we'll indeed. but as
We have found that il We wish to keep
our best health out here We mus
forego meat. We ourselves seldom
eat any of the meats but some of the
fat. which is not injurious as the
lean.
Some of the rich people of the town
are quite friendly now and one fam
lily sent us some scrolls. We knew
they would not want to come 10 n
feast with the common people. and
as We had heard they We're longing
fer foreign meal We decided to in
vite them to one. They are quite in
tcrested in learning English Ceyery
ore in China is perfectly crazy nCw
to learn English and students In the
schools would spend their time on it,,
TO the exclusion of all else, if allow
ed, as they think the way to make a
fortune lies entirely in their know
irg this language) and they begged
Mrs. perr TO teach them She cen
sented on the condition that half Of
the study time should De given up to
stuying in Chinese our catechism or
Whatever else she wishe. to viii h
they have agreed. In English Their
learning is small indeed. hut they
have committed ths catechism to
memory and are on something else,
and We do hope it will sink into their
hearts and that they may come TO e
lieve Well, we invited these four, n
young man and his two sisters and
their aunt, to dinner. With only one
man William fe,t rather lonely, so
asked DR.. Lewis to support him. The
aunt is a vegetarian. not even eat
ing eggs. as she took VOW when her
husband died not to eat anything ami
nal for three years. As she was the
second of only four wives O. | imag-
inc it was not through affection for
him, but rather a desire to gain favor
ard lay up merit for herself in the
world to come. There are lots who
do this in China. Wen, she was so
afraid that soemthing might be eaten
in which it would break her vow that
SIZE would not even eat our rice, but
beyond a little preserved ginger and
/ raisins and some peach butter and
crackers she would not eat a bite. but
| looked on and asked the others II
things were good! Once she Tipped
crouton across the table to her
niece and told her to tell her what 1t
tasted like. They all managed their
knives and forks quite we'll, with few
mistakes, as they were clever enough
to watch us, but always they took
their own spoons to help themselves
| to a dish, disregarding the one in it.
How would you feel to have your
guests rise every time anything was
passed to them? 1t did look ridicu-
| lous, but is their idea of very good
manners. They ate most heartily of
everything though they did not like
cold rnmpkin pie, as they eat every
| thing very hot. One girl when she
was full of salmon loaf IL had II for
q fish course and since it was timed
it seemed very wonderful to them,
as do all our canned goods) calmly
placed the remainder on her sisters
plate and told her to eat ii for her
They seemed quite interested in ev'
erything, especially the coffee serv
Ell at the last and all the things diff
ferent from their own food. OF
course things must have tasted very
strange, but they told Mrs. Derr after
wards that they had "eaten very full
ard thought it WAS great fun. Nv,
had hard time sometimes to keel
from laughing, but when | thought Of
ny lack of skill with chopsticks ever
yet felt that | had no reason tC
laugh"
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