Very far east / by C. Winifred Lechmere Clift ; with preface by Albert A. Head.

  • Clift, C. Winifred Lechmere.
Date:
[pref. 1909]
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Credit: Very far east / by C. Winifred Lechmere Clift ; with preface by Albert A. Head. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Kuei Lin, Saturday, July 21. WE are in our very hottest month now—what the Chinese call Fu-Tien, a word which Mr. Li looked up evidently in his English dictionary, and solemnly announced to H. “ the dog-days now begin ” ! Even China takes it easy—the colleges close, the soldiers are not drilled, and the officials do as little business as possible. Only the mission- ary (and the poor Chinaman) grinds on, and he doesn’t seem to accomplish much ! However, a welcome breeze sprang up yesterday, and we actually managed two games of tennis in the late after- noon, and it was possible to enjoy language study. “ Our Street ”—otherwise known as North Gate Street— has had its little excitements this week, in the form of a ghost, a fire and a disappearance of a baby. Mild excite- ments, all of them, except the baby incident. The postman came in the day before yesterday and said that a woman was weeping and wailing in the street, because her baby had been stolen. It made us rather anxious, because many people would at once attribute the theft to us. They always believe the old stories of missionaries stealing children, so much so that six years ago at the time of the troubles, when the Byrdes went down to the coast, the crowds rushed into the house as soon as they had gone to search for the babies’ bones. But in this case the true story soon came out. It was the