"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is as true as it is old. "All play and no work makes Jill a mere toy" may not be as old but is probably quite equally true.
The boatwoman have their say, as 1 aprons, but then recollected it would not do without the alert, business-like air. 'And what is there for European women in China to be alert and business-like about Close to the Hospital is the cool, shady old house where the lady doctors live. And there is also a girls' school. Having visited a good many itt' schools, since arriving in China, T was really delighted to see the children look so well and rosy, and clean. None apparently had bad eyes, or sore heads, some were even pretty, all plump. They had a man for instructors, which to European ideas seemed pity. Probably it would be difficult to find @ Chinese woman instructor. But it seems to a casual visitor from Europe as much to be desired, as that the big boys at the Eurasian School should have a man to instruct them, and hold them in check instead of two amiable and not even elderly ladies. The little girls sang very pleasingly, but when told they were singing a Tem-rance Hymin, I could not help thinking jow we should laugh at home if philan-tropic China women went to Scotland and the little girls in Glasgow to sing anti-opium Hymns. Missionaries like reformers should be gifted with a strong sense of the ludicrous, 'The piles of fresh clean homely garments all ready for the little girls upstairs were however in no sense laughable, until one came to the winter garments made with Irish ingenuity out of the tailors' patterns from which gentlemen select their clothes. The little oblong bits of cloth had All been sewn together by the children themselves, who, I was assured, had never been so comfortable before, as when wearing these motley garments under their blue cottons. For the cloth was new, and Jight for its warmth—yet not so very warm as wadded clothes. "Piles of fresh cotton garments were waiting for them now, and they were busy with patchwork quilts jo out of remnants of cotton frocks. Visions of doing like wi i ions from Winners of Faseha Sexier srt Tare tanya i het Sea during this Meeting, will be divided as lows: followa: Vent {every rew arrival in China knows, and ure to differ from town happy in patchwork, bog and Seventh Prizes, respectively, 10 per lady of Chinese porrly wecbab Fourth, Fifth, they who pull t an or Bub then cent, rize, per Old Christmas, cards, or coloured adver-command half so much deference at home Uegerents were given as prizes to induce the children to do their lessons well, and, as I the rough boatwoman. Indeed we all know was assured—one has to take so much on fire El. has to Put up with " Number Two trust where one cannot speak the language
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