The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-02-17
THE EFFERS ONIAN

and down Alabama, begging for none money
for magnificent churches schools, hospitals,
and colleges in China and Japan!
DR.. William IL. Smith went into the col
umns of The Ata6anaa Baptist, yelling for
ducats for the East; and they have put DR..
Whlttlngll on the stump, ma !ing speeches
In behalf of the Baptist Mission an Italy!
Why does DR.. Whittingill go to Rome to
fight Romanism?
Why not go to Mobile, and save travelling
expenses?
The Methodists maintain a most expensive
establishment, In Rome, to fight the Catholics:
why don't they make the fight in New Orleans
and Birmingham and Savannah?
Ii living expenses are so very much higher
abroad than here why not live and work,
here?
God knows the field is large enough
And the Catholics are covering 1t, more
and more, year by year.
AS to living expenses in Italy, it depends
upon h0oo you live.
If you want to live like Dives. it will cost
you money. DR.. Whittingill says that the
500 a year extra, is not enough to support
the baby, except the first year, when they
live on mothers milk.
How many Italian 6a5ieS do you suppose
get 500 year to live on?
Everybody knows how little the Italians
can live on, even in this country, and how
much they can save, out of small wages
But the Boards have accustomed the for
elgn missionaries to adopt proud, sumptll-
Gus, snowy style of living, and they don't
intend to live like common folks, any more.
Dr. Bell publishes in the Index, of January
q, an absurd letter from missionary woman
"a letter that contradcts Miss Lester. CLAIR
ence Poe, Professor Headland. Harpers
Weekly, Lafcadio Hearn, and the Trade
Journals Of 1916:
Cher sister, also missionary has told
me what mistake made when first came out
In writing only the pleasant and cheerful things
SO as to keep your from being worried about me.
She says got the idea that was living on
fo"ery beds of ease. If we buy in China from
retail dealer we must pay ST. or So. 90 for what
might cost about $500 at home. If we order
fro" home, think ages ahead and get
catalogues and compare the plan, and then by
tAAe We pay tile prlce at home, pay for packing,
insurance, freight and postage, customs duty bank
charges (for exchanged, harbor tax, landing
agents commission, landing expenses and over
land freight, $4,000 order has cost $4,000 or
$500.
What we eat is expensive too When we live
for months on eggs laid by hens that not fed,
and on the meat of these hens, and fish-there
is very little nourishment furnished and gravy
from which the richness has been SKINNED off to
make grease to cook with to save expenses-we
AAIuSC NC I6lHlOIC0u somehow III we QOn keep up
our strength our work and our means of making
a lving are gomez, SO we buy from Chinese(?)
dairy Watered milk at cents pint per day. We
help this out with good American "evaporated
cream at II Il cents tin. ct costs cents
here in American A missionary has said that
butter is cheaper than cod liver oil and more
palatable, and we must take the other to
keep from having tuberculosis, we get good
butter from Denmark. (This is canned butter and
costs about 81. 90 Mexican per pound, and Mexican
dollars are worth about AZ cents in American
money!
People who live in America can't understand
the strain it is to live in the East Besides the