Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1919-03-19
ANOTHER LETTER FROM CHINA.
Mrs. IL. II. Lancaster Writ, -
Formerly Miss Eliza Neville.


ceived the following letter for publ
cation. 1t has lain dormanl in
our Office not because We Gd not
care to publish, nor yet because we
felt that it would not find n,auy 20
read it with interest. We haY" been
Worked to an extent alnos, Beyond
endurance, and we knew this letter
would both keep" and hold its tull
interest. Mrs Lancasters very NJ
ieresting communication follows.
Letter from MissiopW,v.
llsuchoufu, ia.
September 2S. l%i%
Dear Friends:
So much happened since wrote
to you last fall tina. | hardly know
where to begin. have studied
Chinese for one year. Uf coarse
Can't talk much--in fact, no. near
lE as much as would like after n
years workout it is great 80 know
mat you can say somethinR uul that
the language no longer sounos like
Greek or Hebrew or som, such
language that you know absolutely
nothing about. We stood cNamina-
ton in June and then stiN had abuue !
eight weeks of work to do IN the
summer before we finished our
years work. l stood my examine
lion on the summer work two weeks
before leaving Kuling, SO | had Two
weeks free from language study.
China's New Year with It's many
guests, who come in to congra h,!ato
you and wish you peacefui scar
has been so long ago l won, write
about 1t, except to say that | realized
as never before that Chino muse
have four hundred million raople! |
We went to the old ExAmiuutjon !
Halls, and have never seen rs VIZ
Il crowd. and | think I car sag [;
Eope ! will be spared from :nn a I
such crowd again. Most r,
beggars of Marking we've msr1 ~
Cor the occasion. mean h. ,har,
If it was possible for them SOW
off any deformity they did It. scme .
of the sights most made ~. sick, |!
but we realized they had CON their
best to look as awful as p.a,jhlo, /
hoping to get all the more m0'ey. !
1t was splendid being at t.. Lam !;
guage school our first year on r2re. !
We were very fortunate in tat we
heard some very fine speaker, and
we met some of the biggest men of
China on account of tho vo~inus
special conferences that met in
7Nanking. We got ap idcn & what
the hiGneSs and eXten;. We m"tc
friends there whom we will always
be glad to meet in later years
| suppose the most OF vuu to
whom this letter goes know by now
that | was married on tine IJth OF
June to l.. II. Lancaster. who is
stationed here was vcr. glad 1Nat
didn't have to change ny atatj,l.
We were married in the uOnln OF
Or. and Mrs. Price. They we're r
tcctly lovely to us, doinis everything
mat could be done. EltGy took he
place Of our loved ones as nearly IS
any one could have done 1t >yts
hard to realize that | was way cat
here in China. About three mon,hs
before we were III; ried our engage
ment was announcement very much !
like it would have been doNp IN
America. Then few WcnkS later !
the girls in the language school gave T,
Inc shower. The night Of the |!
shower l would have Thought | wns !,
ricksha men at the gata NhCn we !
went home. The home ia whicN It :
was given had the mos beautiful q
pink and red roses. We nave beauti- t
full flowers in China, ju&t Us pretty |
as at home. There weIc anout rs !,
guests at our wedding, most Of u, 4 !
from Nanking, and good many f |.
them language school Students. | ,
was very fortunate in having two f +
my first cousins and Their nlva,
there. We were married by jr.
Price, who was assisted ~ lr ] l..
Stuart. | suppose most @ you know
that in China, instead o. h.yIug
license, the American con.ul has %
be present. AS one lives in N0nkiug
we We're able to be married At a
time that suited us rather thun
having to suit the consul
We left for killing tha giay niirr