Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-11-20

lot Of five satang pieces, tied them
with baby ribbon and tied them all
through the boquet, then the girls
marched over in procession and pre-
sented it to the Taylors, and one of
the teachers made neat little talk,
saying that if they would stay here
twenty-five years longer we would
give them gold present. Last
night The teachers invited them
down to tea Friday is our regular
day for tea and when we got down
had a lovely supper for us: tomato
soup, baked chicken, asparagus,
peas, scalloped potatoes, pocketbook
rolls, coffee, jelly, cranberries, olives,
cucumber and egg salad, punch, pud-
ding and cake. And everything was
beautifully prepared. At the end of
the supper, the boy brought in the
silver bowl we had bought for them,
with smaller one, from Mrs. Nc
Calvary and her two daughters. The
Taylors were just knocked over;
they didn' know what to say. DR..
Beach made neat little speech, say
ing that he thought when people liv-
ed together % years they deserved
some sort of a reward. l made the
place cards-bells out of silver pa
per. Will send you one next week.
After supper we had music and spent
a very pleasant evening together.
Today we are having our monthly
tests = the last we will have this
term, think. School closes in an
other month, and if we have an en-
tertainment, i think | won't add to
the work by having papers to cor
rect. | am glad we don't have school
much longer, for it is getting hot
and the girls are beginning to have
fever.
Got letter from Mrs. People:
last mail; she thinks my school re
port the best she ever read" She
and Doctor think l should be the
head of the Nan Girls School, anC
let Mrs. Van go to Prae when she
returns. 1t happens, though, that
matter is already settled; but | an
glad the prospects of my continuing
to stay here suits them.
The walk over to Palmers' in the
middle of the afternoon gave me {
splitting headache from the heat;
seldom go out in the middle of the
afternoon and hope | won't have tc
do it again soon.
There is lot of smallpox in the
country around, but the people are
so superstitious they wouldn't allow
themselves to be vaccinated. One
of our native Christians from La
kawn has been around here vaccinat-
ing, but he was allie to accomplish
very little. The death rate is very
heavy. They say that the cows and
buffaloes are dying from the disease,
too. And the loss of the work ami
mails is serious one to these people,
for it means they will have nothing
to work their rice fields with next
season.
| am sending a kodak picture as a
birthday card. l intended sending
another one, but is not yet dry. so l
will send this one one, wishing you
a very happy day and many more of
them.
| am not alone from preference
because people worry me, but be-
cause | have to be. And if | get
selfish and cranky it is one of the
necessary evils attending the pur-
suance of duty. am content to be
alone if it is Gods will, but | don't
prefer it.
Last night the girls crowded around
to tell me that three af the neighbor
boys had come in the compound and
offered to embrace them. They were
sops of our Christians, so this morn
ing / armed myself with three
switches and started out. | found
only one young man at home. but |
gave him a good busting, and left
word for the others that if they
wanted to do any embracing to pay
me visit; that had switch wait
ing for each of them which | would
surely use if caught any of them in