New Britain herald., 1924-05-17
BACK FROM CHINA
 AFTER SIX YEARS
Dr. Catherine H. Travis Connect. ed With Hospital at KWeei Teb
SAYS BANDITS ARE COMMON
Former New Britain Physician Tells of Sights in India and Of Her Visit To Tomb of King Tutankhamen- Will Return To Far East.

Chinese tapestries and hand em- broidery almost priceless in value have been brought to thiss country by ticed medicine in New Britain for 10 years and now is connected with the St Pauls hospital at Kwei Teh in the Province of Honan, China. Dr. Travis is visiting at the home Of Mrs. k. N, Peck at 42 Park Place.
 Dr. Travis is a graduate of Johns Hopkins university and of the McGill university at Montreal. She received the degree of Bachelor of Arts at Me Gill and her M. D. at Johns Hopkins Leaving the Johns Hopkins university upon her graduation she went to the New England hospital for women and children at Boston, where she served her internship. From 1905 to 1915 she practiced medicine in this city and left in 1915, going to Serbia in the interests of the American Red Cross. She stayed in Serbia one year during which time she experienced some war thrills in the Balkans. In 1916 she practiced medicine until 1918.
 Went to China in 1918
 Tn the latter year Dr. Travis went 10 China as a medical missionary where she took charge Of the female sections of the St. Paul hospital. This hospital is thoroughly modermzed, having four doctors, three of them being women, and three nurses. There is a training school for Chinese nurses having IS students, 10 Of whom are boys.
 In addition to the ordinary routine of surgical work familiar to every hos- pital, Dr. Travis has come in contact with many Chinese bandits and SOL diers and says they are so common in the list of patients received at the hos pital that it is almost impossible to tell one from the other. She says bandits are a great menace at the present time.
 pr. Travis was six months on the way before she arrived here. On the journey to America she came by way of Singapore, the Bay of Bengal. 1n- dia, Egypt. Jerusalem and Southern Europe. She speaks of the impressive sights along the Ganges river. and Of the weird religious rites of fanatics in India. she tells of the ceremony Of burning the dead in India and of the Unkeaithfl conditions which follow tbis custom. Bodies are only partially con- sumed and then thrown into water where peoph bathe, causing an ui- sanitary condition which is responsi- ble for cholera epidemics.
 Speaking of the Chinese, ske says they have keen sense of honor and an instinctire sense Of dramatlcs. They are good actors because they hare little if asy Of the self con- sciousness that Americans experience
 Visits Tomb of King Tut
 While in Egypt she visited the Val ley of the Kings and saw King Tut's tomb, slthough tourists were not per- mitted to enter. She saw the gold throne and the delicate pottery and many other curiosities taken from the tomb, which noW are in the Cairo which she says is the most beautiful museum in the world.
 pr. Travis expects to return to China In February She will be in New Britain until Tuesday when she will leave for Canada. She has with her many interesting exhibits Of silks forming parts Of Mandarin robes, small slippers used by Chinese women and a large assortment of priceless relics. . She has made arrangements 10 exhibit these in the E. C. Porter window on Monday.