Putnam patriot., 1924-10-10

sA@tl ttooN1 Ae tdhdik@. IS most Inter estingly told by Dr. and Mrs. II. \. kinnear, medical missionaries af Feoehow, China, a portion of whose salaries is one Of the self-imposed oh- l legations of the Second Congregational church of this city. Dr. kinEear is surgeen-director of the Poansaug Hospital, while Mrs, kinnear, who Is a trained nurse. assists him in the hospital when her health permits.
 Dr. Willard Beard, who is well known in Putnam and has visited here l on several occasions, is also working ir Foochow, being president of the Ths ologieal College there. His daaeh- ter, Miss Phoebe Beard, has been teaching in Wenshan School for Girls. and just now is taking a needed rest in the North of China. That Mrs. Eu- nice Boger. daughter of Dr. and Mrs. kiunear, was about to be married to Samuel Burns at the time the mis- sionaries wrote ta Putnam friends, was disclosed in the letter.
 The letter from the missionaries follows:
 Fooehow. China. June 30, 1924
 Dear. Dear Friend,
 After so long a silence. here l bob up serenly to say cordial Hello to you. We nave only three patients in the hospital, a drop from the seyenty-nine of s few days ago. and 1t is the first day of our really, truly vacation. But as t has been raining of and On, mostly on, all the month. and there is a forty-three foot flood cominE down from Iong-bing-the second food of the kind in ten days-we can't get of down the river to our island summer home at Sharp Peak for good many days to come. So, when l look at my stack of unan- swered letters, l said, The delay Is so ordered that l may get some of this summers work done.' So, you poor things. prepare Co be bored.
 The Coming Flood
 As l lay on my nice bed at seven A. M., instead of having to jump out at six A. NJ. as usual, and heard ths noise on Ming-gaingseng, the street nearest the hospital, l felt uncomfOr- table to feel so comfortable. l knew that the babel of voices meant great distress for thousands of poor peo- pie in this city and on the plain around Us. many of whose homes are flooded to the loft floor for the second time this month. While l lay there in comfort. they must huddls in their dark attic rooms, no fire Co cook with. their clothing wet, their wells flooded, and many other dis comforts to endure. l hurriedly got up, dressed. and ran down to the operating pavilion from which one has a good view of the street below. Yes, the water is well up Co the hos pital, and men are paddling boats along the street. The flood last week WIS so high. higher than an ordinary mans head. so that Ming -galng-seng street was traiiieless, except for a l few doors being poled along as rafts. 4 trip to the hospital tower shows that We are, while the food lasts. an island city, with water everywhere. l Only the higher ground in the city l .s not flooded. Of course, no food Is being brought in, and people live s best they can. l said to Dad this 4. M.. "It takes lot of the Chinese
 Nav hawk" (NO help for it) to make living under such circumstances en- iurab,e." And they surely are won ders in the cheerfulncss they show under such trials. If the military governors would only forego their greed of gain for one year much nieht be done to avert such calami- ties.
 Daughter Msrries
 You will, perhaps, remember that the last time l wrote you. was snug iv ensconsed "On the shelf" playing
 cry realistically, Grandma. Did you ever marry of a daughter? All the hot months since last summer l have been lending hand to help Euniee prepare for her home-going to the States. It was a busy rush up to April 20, when she got comfortably and safely off on the steamer tO Shanghai It was very comforting to us that Miss Darrow. cur hospital nurse. who was returning home, tenn Eorarlly We hope, on account of iil- ness in her family. could accompany Euace as her cabin-mate as far es Honolulu Word has just come from Honolulu that, when five days odt from that place. Eunice had recieved wireless from her brother Gerald in Honolulu. telling her that Sam Burns, THE sam, was to arrive there June f7th., for her Co be sure to arrange stop-over. The question now uppermost in our minds, 'is she now | Mrs Boger or Mrs. Burnsg" If we were pessimistic we should moan, mourn, "0h, these distances of time and space :" As it is, We just move on in hopes that the next American mail will relieve our minds of all un- certainty. If not, then the next, oi | the nextl See9 You haven't any. thing to tone up a weak heart against i separation. have you? We've been i separated from our kiddies so often and SO long during the past twenty. i five years, ] ought to have learned 10 be brave and resigned. Fact is ! tho. it grows harder every time. i What can fill this blank after their departure, l kept thinking. Still am glad as l can be that Ellenise is i eetting such fine man for the only Daddy" she has ever known. She told me before she left that she had l her kissing factory running in greas shape ready 10 give Daddy sam the kisses heaven had given her for him. Quaint ideas kiddierinks get, don't they?
 in Full Swing Again
 After Eunice and Eileuise left us April 20. 1 had just two days Co get 1