The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1920-08-18
MISSIONARY IN
CHINA WRITES
Miss Jennie Bridenbaugh, Whose Home
Is In Sioux City. Now q Teacher In
PARKWAY China.
TELLS AN INTERESTING STORY

Letter Sent to Friends at Dow City,
Who Have Helped to Bear Expense
o. Some Of the Students.
The following letter is sent the Re-
view with a request to publish 1t as a
number of patrons live at Dow City,
and win read the letter with interest:
Ch'angli, China, JAM 90, 1920.
Dear Patrons and Friends of Alderman
Alderman School is flourishing, 152
is the fall Term enrolment while $50
i is supposed ito be our capacity. But
there are always some who on account
Of sickness; are called home during a
had less than 145 at any time. One
little girl, our Golden Blue Of whom /
have spoken before, had to miss out
this term. She is back to start in the
Spring term this week and her face
fairly shines with joy. She told her
mother that if she could take only one
study she wanted to come back to
school this spring and she was SO afraid
there would not be a place for her.
She had heard that had refused some
girls to come for lack of room.
One dear girl did "go home indeed
in December She was girl who had
been fighting tuberculosis for about two
years and she was making a good fgA
until the flu struck her down. She
was not strong enough to resist it's
awful powers. Our good nurse and the
girls doctor father did all that could
be done. She Is the very one who wore
the crown In last years Christmas ex-
ercise. I think you all had That picture
4 In your letters a year ago. In the
testimonies given by. her schoO climates
at her funeral one said, Last year
when Yu Ling wore that beautiful
crown at Christmas time we never
real one in heaven this Christmas"
ssa mentioned our good nurse. She is
the best asset that has come to Alder
man school In many days. A year ago
during flu time, I made up my mind
that q nurse was q necessity to our
school. But where would she live and
where would she work? This question
was solved by gaining permission from
the building committee to use some
funds that had been accruing for sew
1eral years to build on some new rooms
during the summer. SO we have sick
ward, nurses living room with a
tiny ilispensary room in between, be-
side one new recitation room. All OF
these are great blessings to us-a place
to put sick girls away from the well
ones, a NURSE to care for them and
teach them hygiene, and do not know
where we would house some of these
huge classes that have come this fall
without that new recitation room.
Christmas brought its joys of Christ.
mas tree, gifts from American friends,
and a treat Of candy and nuts because
Edgartown, Mass, sent US a p. Q. or
der. wish you might have seen n, the
children ENJOY that candy. There
are two ways to enjoy one Is to eat
ii right away, the other to wrap It
carefully in the new handkerchief or
cretOnne square and carry 1t safely |
home for everyone to see.
Dolls were scarce this year. By dill
gent search and repairing Of broken
legs and arms, fallen in eyes or fallen
on hair, we found enough small ones
tO 70 around for the new girls. did
not know whether they would care
much for such small dolls Or not.
naked one good, earnest girl of seven
teen who came to my study the evening i
after the Christmas tree, II she had
nf1joyed her first Christmas here and
IL she liked her doll. Her reply, Il am
ia pleased with 1t !" could not leave one
III doubt as to her, cup Of happiness:
many dolls They are expensive, hard
10 get and hard to send. The same
amount Of money will go farther put
into things that are really useful.
Ss Next year please send us compost.
tion books and mittens or WOODEN gloves
ladies. sizes. To girls who never get
more than one or two, and often not
even one, composition book IN tnelr
school career, gift of one Is very &C
ceptable. They use them for their per-
sllanent notebooks in music or normal.
Wed like 100 nice thick composition
books.
i sore hands and feet are entirely too
common with us. They say they are
frozen and they really are. In the case
Or feet 1t lis usually those that have
been bound. The chillblains on the |
hands come from not having mittens. |
Many Of the girls have never had q
nair OF mittens. think mittens or
wooden gloves would be such nice pres
eiats for the highest class next year.
There will be about 35 girls in next
years class.
I'm sure you will be glad to know of |
SOpr growing Standard Bearer Society.
tirely themselves this year-just 1T.
fie advice and help in finding material
81 my part. We have u members, and
meet the middle Saturday Of each
month. We are studying different |
countries this year. The lesson on7I
Korea was most interesting. One girl
drew large map on which she located |
an the mission stations. Then diner.
ieeiiIt girls told Of the work in each one
sof these places.
n III you could see and realize the vast |
difference between these girls and those
who are still in Ignorance and heather.
ism, you would surely thank the Lord
Tor the great privilege Of helping.
al, constantly thankful for the privil-
ere that is mine, and pray that may
Keep the trust that is given to me.
Your Lin Fegg Chen, whom you help
ed for SO many years, graduated last
June and has been teaching In the
same town where her father is preach
Ing this year. There are good reports
of her work and just hear that she
Iii planning to 60 out oman eyangelts-
tie trip with one Of the Bible women
this summer.
Now I am giving you in her place
/, new girl named T'soo Yu Lon. Ehe
u third from the left in the above group
She is also preachers daughter and
q most earnest little Christian. Her
testimony of her last summers work
At home was most interesting.
Most sincerely.
Jennie Bridenbaugh.