The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1922-11-09
LADY MISSIONARY
WRITES FROM CHINA
MISS PLOWDEN SENDS INTER
ESTING LETTER TO FATHER
FROM SOOCHOW.
Nv dearest father,

| have gotten two or three copies
of The County Record, and have en-
loved them so much. Now that |
am in Soochow to stay, | want the
address changed here-just Soochow
is all it needs. There are not so many
of US foreigners, and it is not so
hard to keep up with us.
Did you know DR.. S. H. Edmund
son is in Shanghai? He is teaching
in the Shanghai American school, 1t
is composed entirely of missionary
children. | saw him twice while |
was in Shanghai last week. He Is
very young, and just out of college,
but he is very fine boy. The stu
dents like him very much. He Is
coming up to Soochow soon to visit
the Beaveo and me. | just enjoyed
being down to the college so much,
You know l wrote you | was gong
down there to teach until the boat
came in bringing the new missionaries.
Well, Mrs. Willar came, and turn
ed my precious boys over to her, as
you may suppose it nearly broke my
heart. 1t was delightful to have the
new missionaries come out. SeverS
of them were among my best friends.
Faith Snuggs was among them, she
was in Sumter last year and stayed
with sister. Mary Lawton also came,
she was in the training school at
Winthrop with me one year each.
We gave them reception the even
ing they arrived, and introduced them
to China and Chinese, of course l
had no Chinese to air, but l was part
of a chorus that sang "My breakfast
he's over the Ocean, my dinner he's
over the Sea, my supper is all In
commotion, Oh, bring back my dry
land to me-"
Then we had a tea for them out
at the college, they got separated
some how, some of them went some
where else first, so the first lot OF
them came and went, then another
lot of them came, so we had two
teas. Then there was one young man
who got left out some how, and ne
came the next afternoon. That gen
tleman is Mr.. Hines from Spartan
burg. He is very nice, and nice look
ing. 1 did not get to see Red Lit
tleiohn. He went on to North China
from japan. He and his wife were
terribly sea-sick. Some Of them said,
one day Red went into the dining
room and the servant gave him the
menu card, and waited for the order.
Red looked at it few minutes, then
said in all earnestness, "Bring me a
half a dozen trees and some dry
land"
Last week my little kddies at my
mission in Louisville sent me box.
It contained five dolls, six handker-
chiefs, and lots of beautiful Sunday
school cards, and picture booklets
that they themselves had made. The
pictures were very beautiful ones Of
the life of Christ mostly, and Of some
other Bible stories. This afternoon
I went with Miss Bagby to one Oh the
out station Sunday schools, and we
gave the cards to the children. They
were very ignorant little lads and
so uncouth, but you should have
heard them sing. Children who were
bred and born on nothing but the
blood of Jesus" could not have sung
it more hustily. am so'anxious to
know Chinese so that I can talk to
them myself.
These children come pretty regu-
larly but they have hardly touched
the older people. Several OF our
Yates Academy boys 60 out there on
Sundays. l have a class of Academy
boys, which l am going back to teach
every Sunday. L am sure l will enjoy
them very much, l missed not hav-
ing any definite work to do this sum-
mer. The language school has open
ed this week. We have learned thir-
ty-fve words, seven a day. We have
learned all the personal pronouns, a
few nouns and verbs, and have COM
bined them into countless sentences.
1t is very interesting. My year Of
listening has helped me some with
sounds. / am living in the Language
School Home. We have most in
teresting group of women. There are
two Baptist, two Methodists, two
Episcopalians and one Northern Pres
byterian. Then at lunch each day,
we have another Presbyterian and
two English women under the London
mission, FIVE of them are nurses and
a doctor, while the rest are teachers