Putnam patriot., 1921-07-15
HELP FEED STARVING
 IN FAR OFF CHINA
ferrler thompson Girl Quar-
 sntined In Chefoo Home
Living ia Plague Stricken Ds,ris, of
 Oriental Land

- ca H-l letter tu YOU l admit Wa aEe faH behind the t5Hes. but oers- sisnallE something exciting does hap pen Fms -iue We cannot tslk abaat # Tor at least seven days autsi.ie our oWH homes. A. mg te.er-sa'f k aaf.tes af miles away aa two . months famine relief tr and the eHl-1-eH -igteeast,5 ir rrea- ias7 HIagse. Fl rass tl=e t.ue 5f sAs N.t= soa and relieve ufv m.ud hy
 .- E.G the latest Chefae news.
 As ass shut ia from all the world Nl-hou. Our busy harhog s quiet. TO vessels can enter or leave. We are e*eE sHat up jH our own homes.
 tAnlE fragments Of the whole story have come Co our hill top. I remarked ta a caller tha. Wis worried about Ar. Gie5ei being in plague-territorv and under the doctors care She re- piled Did you not know we# are Tn plague territory \ Russian ship in the harbor had had over a hundred PHeumeHie plague victims removed Go . nearby island and were being guard ed by two sentry. Fourteen had died. gave the matter little thought as they seemed to be SO far away. The next evening friend called with mask on and another chapter Co the story During the night these patienes had brIbed the island keeper to go in his small sampan Co Chef0o and get fifty more sampans Bribery is as common as squeeze" in China. Chinaman will do anything for mon ey. What does he care for uuaran- tine and public safety? The two sentry were both asleep, they say, Be that as t may. over a hundred of these dangerous plague stricken men escaped and went in all directions. causing panic to the foreigners here. A there are some three hundred for eieu children ia the boarding schools here and half as many agsiH in pri- ydfe homes whose life would be en- daggered maybe by earclessness of the servants passing in and out. strict quarantine was ordered. The China Inland Mission Compound next to Us closed it's gates and posted seutries at each a foreigner being oH patrol all night Only the most urgent business could cal one out and then he must wear mask. 4 servant escaping could not come back. The Chinese school. beyond were all closed The Caien church did not open Sunday Work OF the new Deaf and Dumb In stitute ceased.
 I soon dismissed the some thirty workers here on our hill and the twen- v odd wbeelbarr0w men. ordered our laundryman and gardener not to go out even for food, dismissed my Chinese teaeher and-here we arel How qaiet il is Ghefoo is wise to tzaa every precaution as this kind nf riazue is transmitted in the air East summer We were surrounded with bn- bonic plague. our neighbors dying daily. five or six at a time. That kind enters the system through the mouth, rather than the nose An American r. N. C. \ worker died from t leav- ing three small children there. Have just heard that our egg woman who was here twice yesterday. has lost her grandehild with either measles or scarlet fever She Is the agent for l hair-netS in her village There is no safe way to live here without high wall or fence We are to have six foot cattle-chicken wire fence topped with two rows of barbed wire as soon as the new home is done.
 We are building a six room bunga- ] low with large cellar for laundry and one-pipe furnace. Cellars are rare here and one-pipe heater has ap- parently never been seen nor heard of before. Will the one who said want ed to return to China so as not to have to do my own housework please take note that we are building a new home for the chief reason that we want to do away with servants alto gether. Our present house would have to be remodeled with a home kitchen, wooden floors to replace the cement ones. ceilings overhead, q bathroom, new bed room. and piazza. Even then we'd need three or four stoves in winter So we have decid ed to rent this house furnished for summers and build anew just what we need, figuring that servants wages for ten years will build the entire new plant. It is suggested that We call our present house Quadie. Our dreams of gray stuee0 with a red tile roof, trellis work porches, window boxes, rambler roses and English ivy are beginning to have foundations Inside all walls will be tinted soft gray with alabastine. the draperies having pink roses. They say one can not live out hers as we do at home, doing our own work. but one New England girl will try 1t and see. What bliss to banish the servants, All have now is a stupid, cross-eyed. dirty laundryman whose days at Quinnatis- set are numbered 1 give you all cordial invitation to be present at the house warming" in July, and a warm one t will be if Chefoo is like last summer.
 We are having a beautiful spring, the first spring we have seen in four years. Our gardens were up and do- ing we'll the first of May with spinach and radishes ready to eat uaas 4