The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1921-02-03

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an immense industrial building wher
they will teach the natives all kinds o
Industries. A new church is to b
built next and the old church used TO
a school building entirely. 1t is use'
for school for the older boys and girl
now. The little children have build
ing of their own. A saw mill has ar
rived and is to be set up either here o.
at Monieka, SO that will help for here
tofore all the lumber has been gottel
out by hand.
We are sorely in need of more
Christian workers. At present DR.
| Barger has to superintend the brick
making and laying and so does moi
have nearly as much time for work al
the hospital as he would like. DaviC
spends his mornings at the print shoE
where school books and some CONNER.
cial printing for the government mer
at Coquilhatville is being done. He il
going to help Mr.. Ross in the after.
moons with the station books. Mrs.
Ross teaches the orphan girls sewing
and is a matron for them. They have
just moved into their new home (girls)
which was finished since we came.
Mrs. Holder and Mrs. Pierson and
teach school. | am real proud to know
! can hear reading. give writing and
arithmetic lessons in school so soon.
David and | put in at least two or
three hours on Lonkundo every day
and | have been experimenting the
planting of large garden for US, SO
that If our Montgomery Ward stuff
does not arrive soon we can get -four
sugar and salt at CoquilhatVille and
with our garden and share of the mis-
sion fruits we can get along.
1t is the desire of the mission to get
a tractor to put in big garden for the
missionaries and the native workmen.
At present it is very hard to keep half
enough native workmen because we
can not afford to pay as good wages as
the State does and as food is high even
in Congo, the Workmen are restless.
If we could raise food for them it
would help so much. We have some
good houses for them and are building
a long, brick building with porch along
both sides and roof of endelle, or palm
leaves woven into big shingles, and
having partition lengthwise through
the center then cut up each side sec
tion into rooms. This affords homes
of one room, bath and porch for tam
lily on each side of the middle parti-
ton. Such a building they have now,
large enough for twenty families, and
the new one will accommodate as
many. These buildings face an open
court about fifteen feet wide and on
the opposite side of the court, row
of mud kitchens are built so each fam
lily has kitchen. 1t is by far the best
homes | have seen the natives have.
They have beds, tables and chairs. lam
terms for light and many have pictures
cut from magazines pinned on the
walls.
David has already tackled a job out
here which he had never done before,
viz. making composition for rollers
for the printing press. have not seen
him since to know how they turned
out. He is also head of the carpen-
ters. | think that a Joke for they
know more about it than he does.
expect to have quite time man.
aging four house boys when we get
settled in our home next month. |
manage our one boy pretty we'll, he
is darning stockings just now while |
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it, too and some of the holes are 'bobe
mongo" (very bad), he says, and he is
right. He keeps our two rooms and
bath clean, carries bath water and
washes and irons twice week for 18
franks a month, about SLIPS. Last
night he took unto himsef a wife on
that pay. He has waited two years to
save enough to buy her. We gave him
a shirt to be married in and he was so
pleased. He did not have collar, tie
)r shoes and socks but that did not
natter. He looked nice and clean.
We are glad to tell you that aside |
rom mosquitoes which bite us con-
.inually in the evenings and an occa-
ional giger which gets into our toes,
ays eggs and has to be cut out, there |
$ nothing here to harm us. We saw
everal monkeys on our up-river trip
,ut that was all. Back in the iungles |
ire wild animals and few hippos and
are sometimes seen on the
and bars when the river is low.
We have found things much more
ivilized than we had dreameJ possible.
electric lights are even now being dis
ussed as possible here IN the next few
a
ide car here, owned by DIR. Barger
nd telephones in our houses. A hy-
roplane flew over Bolenge few days
go and state man just three miles
elow here has an auto, (Ford). He
an drive past here to Coquilhatville, Il
'hich will be quite place some day
oon, | think.
Our language teacher talks encour-
gingly of our being able to speak
lOnkundo in three more months and be
BILE to preach in nine months. The
will be in with their con
erts at Christmas, which will soon be
ere, so the calendar says. 1t is diff
alt to realize, for the weather is like
uly. We both feel we are going to
njoy our work here so much and will
e quite comfortable when we get in
lr own house where we can do our
Nn cooking instead of boarding.
ill have my patience tried training a
)ok, | expect, but | am anxious to
v. The boys do real well. Some of
lie ladies have theirs trained so all
icy do is tell the boys what to cook.
have been given native names.
avid is known as La-koo-la-kau-kau.
is the name of wise bid, but
ven to him because of the man who |
IRE it so we'll and died with the flu
1918. | am Mama Menta-la. mean
& clear in character like glass, and
as the name of the wife of the elder
T whom David was named.