Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-18
DELAWARE ALUMNUS
RETURNS FROM CHINA
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One hot summer night wher
the Ku Hsien Sen (Ku, Cooper
Hsien Sen, Mr. was alone, Mrs
Cooper having gone to kuling,
went around to see him.
He talked to me about the kin.
OF home people live in in America
How each family has its own house
and how the windows give light
and air to each room and look out
upon street or yard. | am q
clerk in the foStoffice and have
been promoted again and again I'M
til now | am almost the head Chin
csc clerk. My salary is good. In
country where five dollals a
month is a good average salary
for clerk, get thirty dollars a
month. My wife and | with two
children live in three rooms in a
Chinese house. There are eighteen
more people, three families, in the
some house, and we AL Use the
same reception room. 1t is diff
cult for me to have nv friends III
to see me. II they come often my
neighbors complain, and then ac-
cOrdlng to the Chinese custom
when a male guest comes the wo-
men OF the family all have 10 dis
appear.
When the KuHsien told me how
people live in America thought
| would like to have such a house
and have it coy and private with
my wife and children. The only
windows in our house look out
into courtyard in the center of
the building and all the rooms are
dark and badly ventilated. The
court yard is small and we haven't
SO much as square-foot of
ground in which to plant vege-
tables or flowers. Our children
play on our uncarpeted floors or
in the dark, damp courtyard.
Sometimes they 60 outside the
door into the narrow, crowded
street where, coolies carrying
heavy loads suspended from a
carrying-pole and richshas are
danger to them.
Truly | am thankful that | am
CHRISTIAN and believe in good
God who sends His guardian an
gels to care for the little children.
One OF my neighbors does not be-
lleve in God, but in spirits who
want to harm his children and
snatch away their life, and to de-
celve these spirits he calls his first
child 10, dog, and the second
by the classic literary term for
dog, we might say, Chuen, Can
ine." .,'
One day Ku Hsien Sen talked
to me about forming a club for
young men who had been educat-
ed in mission schools in China or
IN foreign countries, the Chinese
young men of ideals and aspira-
tons. He said we would try to
have some cheerful rooms with
pictures and curtains, chairs and
tables, and that he would write to
Miss Wood at Wuchang and ask
for a Boone University loan lib
rary, and that we could have
games and newspapers, and that
the club would be open every
night.
The idea seemed to me a splen-
did one, although l am often busy
in the evenings. Some evenings I
give our postmaster, who is a for
elgner, lessons in Chinese, and
ofttlmes my work keeps me. But
when | can be free, Just such a
club as ku Hsien Sen proposed
would suit me. And when he said
we would organize with a few
members and asked me to be the
secretary, although | was busy, I !
was glad to do it. | typed the I
rules OF the club and the notices
ard made out list of the books
that came from Boone and acted
as librarian. | often drop in at the
club about five o'clock to see the
newspapers, and in spite of nv
busy evenings | come each Thurs
day night-which we call club
nlght-when we are sure to meet
all the other members.
| once studied in Huntington
School and spent two wears in
Japan bit | never cared Tor books
ana yet you would be sl.-prisc:i to
So" what good drawings I can
make. Just now I am drawing
plans for the new Bank OF China
building which is to be built on the
South Gate Street.
My father is very rirh and u.,,