The next day was spent in feasting; we had three invitations but could only ncewpt two, ing return callers and making now calls.. For the calls we again used the 'g chairs and the red-tsseled runners, and the Chinese said "it was all the sumo like an Ambassndor had come to town." We also plannd, at the sugges ion of two young friends who offered their large airy house for the occasion, to invite number of our friends to a feast the next day. The details of this arrangement were loft to our assistants, and to our horror we found on returning that they had sent out ins to an afternoon tea in foreign style, with hints of coffee and cake In ropily to our remonstrances they said ordinary feasts were so common in Ch'anyshit that no Chinese would care to come, but if we had something foreign they would he only too anxious to come, But we have no flour and no baking-powder and just run out of coffee." "Oh well, you are foreigners and have a foreign trained cool and we are sare that you can do some. thing if you will try:" Seeing thy invitations had already been sent out, we decided that something must indeed be done or our "face" was yone. The Doctor volunteered to manufacture the baking powder, your correspondent rushed to a semi-foreign drug sture to try and buy some coffee, the cook was sent to look up some for, and by nightfall we all reported success. 'The Doctor was sanguine as to his baking-powder, the cook" had found what purported tobe foreign floor, ile we had found something that looked like ground coffee; so while we all had misgivings we still' felt there was a possibility of success after all. Our spirits from our host of the day before that if we were helped up too by, receiving word would call at 10 a.m. on the morrow, he would add another thousand collate to his subscription for the School.
TIMELY HEL?, The next morning the cook was up early and tested the flour and baking-powder by making some American biscuits, Ho looked happy as he handed them in and the Doctor was triumphant, for they lad risen beautifully, "It is true they were too yellow, but then that could be remedied by' adding more cream of tartar hesidis cake is supposed to be yellow any way and so long as the soda did not taste, it would not matter. Our countenances fell, however, when the first biscuit was
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