The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1923-01-28

the kites. These are often made to
look like birds, boxes and like run
ming children, when flown in the
air.
THE best gift son can give to
his father is coffin. This means
he will continue to love and keep
i alive his memory, even after death.
You see this little shoe? This is
what the women in China wear. They
begin to bind the little girls feet
when they are not near as old as |
am. They take a strip of cloth and
fasten the little girls toes back to
the heel. This hurts the little girls
very badly, and a great many of
them die. The rest are made little
invalids, They can not run or jump
or even go to school or church. so,
OF course, they can not read or learn
+, about our good God. and this is why
the Chinese people believe SO much
in the evil spirits"
Great Grandfather Missionary
Away back in 1859 little Miss
Loehr's great grandfather, DR. Young
j. Allen, was the pioneer Georgia
missionary to China, known as Amer
ica's missionary statesman" He went
with his young bride. Mary Houston
Allen, and their baby, around the
Cape of Good Hope by sailing ves-
sci and through various mishaps
they were at sea for over seven
months. the crew all but succumbing
to starvation.
China was in the throes OF Tarp-
ing rebellion when he arrived and
short time later, the Civil war broke
out in this country. which cut him
off from church support in America,
| SO he used his own funds and, iden-
/ tifying himself with the progressive
Chinese element, began his monu-
mental fight for the freeing of China
from the bonds of superstition and
| Ignorance.
So diplomatic was he in his ef-
forts that the end of ten years found
| him advisor to the chinese Emperor,
| as well as t. the Korean ruler. His
mastery of the Chinese language was
such that his writings were soon ac-
| cepted as Chinese classics, and he be-
came so well loved that he was made
a mandarin and given the rank of
| that office.
However his heart was with Chris
| tian education and he turned him
self once more to his first dream
of Christianized China.
| Founded Colleges
He founded the Anglo Chinese coll
lege which later expanded into 500
chow university, and the McTyerre
| school, which is now the Wellesley
of China, besides numerous other
| schools and colleges.
He founded also the Society for
| the Diffusion of Christian Learning
Among the Chinese" and began the
| systematic dissemination of Christian
! civilization, which ceased only with
| his death.
Among the many interesting books
! of which he is author, is the history
| of the war written in Chinese, which
he wrote at the close of the China
JaFanese war, which was accepted
as an official document by both Chi
nese and Japanese emperors
Grandfather Continued Work
Little Irma's grandfather continued
| this splendid work, and these coll
leges arc still the leading institutions
| of learning in China.
| Both her great grandfather and
grandfather worked particularly for
! the betterment and education of the
| women, most of these schools being
vcmen's colleges.
| Little Irma Loehr's father received
a part of his education in China
! part OF it in America, and some of
| it in Europe. His marriage was the
elimination of childhood romance,
and Immediately after the ceremony.
he returned to China where he has
been American vice consul, later be-
ing offered the position of consul,
which he refused in oruer to return
| to America.
| Little Miss Loehr had the distinc-
ton Of having been born in the tenn
| pie of San Kwan Mao, which was
| cursed by the last of the Ming en-
| perors when he went to have his
| fortune told to see If he would be
successful in battle the following
day. When this ruler was told that
he would not be successful, he cursed
the temple for all time. Tho room
where Irma was born was the bou-
doir of Alice Roosevelt during her
visit.
Little Girl Misses Flowers
Questioned about China. Irma said
she missed the flowers most of all,
for they wore her companions and
used to tell her their secrets. .My
pets told me secrets. TOO" said she.
MY turkey who used to romp with
me and catch my clothes In his mouth
and pull at my skirts-just like q