Tamplin, the agent of Jardine, Matheson & Ca., has the happy custom of giving a Christmas party to the foreign children every Christmas, On Christmas Eve the little folks were invited to fancy dress party and Christmas tree. They went joyfully, representing various characters that have become dear to the children through Mother Goose, Little Red Riding Hood and other stories. Santa Claus presided at the tree in the person of Mr. Howard, of the railroad staff, disguised by the generous use of cotton and the classic garb of the good old saint. Beautiful presents were given to all the children and a happy evening was spent in games and play. This kindness of Capt. and Mrs. Tamplin ix greatly appreciated by the children and their parents.
On Christmas morning a service for foreigners was held in the Baptist Church, conducted by Rev. J. W. Paxton, of the Presbyterian Mission. The building had been tastefully decorated with bamboo and helly by Mr. M. J. Walker. The service was largely attended by the foreign residents and sailors from H, M. 8, Thistl On Christmas afternoon a close and football the mothers to teach their own children while they are little and then send them off to one of the schools for foreign children in China, or to schools at home. Some of the mothers in Chinkiang conceived the plan of bringing all the children together in one place and combining to teach them unitedly. This plan takes less time from each mother and gives the children the advantage of school morale and competition. Mr. Longden, of the Methodist Mission, kindly offered the use of a small building on his compound, which was thoroughly renovated and made suitable for a school building, and in the autumn of 1906 the school began. There are a dozen children thus brought, together under the instruction of Mistresses Longden, Paxton and Newman, with Mr. McCrea helping once or twice a week in Bible study. This is the second winter for the experiment, and thus far it has had eminent success. The children enjoy the work together and the mothers are saved much vexation of spirit. The work is more regaler, as there were constant interruptions in the home under the old individualistic plan, without the next that ix introduced by competition with other children. As this plan is working so successfully here I pass it on for the consideration of the mothers in other small communities like this, where there are not enough children to open a school with paid teachers, but where some such plan as this might be worked out by ce-operative measures of this kind.
"This reminds we" of a good story I heard one of these mother teachers tell the other day. She asked a class the question bat quadruped For a few moments there was no Then a child cried out:
It is one more than of business in Dongshang, and tried to set fire to several places, but in each case there were so many neighbours to intervene that the fire was prevented or put out.
The Di '8 yamen was demolished, the Magistrate was absent and his wife threw herself into a pond of water in her fright, but was rescued from drowning.
'A large number of places have suffered from the depredation—Haining, Hazeb, Yuanbua, Tutienshih, Shihwen—and many other small places. At each of these places there was panic and suspension of business from one to three days, At Haining the soldiers fired into crowd and killed a number of persons estimated at from eleven to 100. At Hazeh the Roman Catholic Charch in the town was burned and the railroad office, the post office and one hundred business places were attacked. This is the railroad that is being built by the people and here the people" are destroying it.
closed one whole day. The methods of At Haining the we gates were the mob are somewhat after this fashion They go through the panty, living by plauder and compelling the country people when they pass, one from family, to follow and help them, ander threat of being killed unless they comply, and so they gather a great crowd, with the worse possible men in the lead, and the roar of the crowd is sound that those who have heard it will not forget; s great amount of property has been damaged, the rowdy element growing in boldness and seeming to have everything their own way, even terrorizing the soldiers themselves and destroying the guard houses. In one instance the rioters burnt a gunboat and threw the gun in the water. The situation calls for a score was Howe of the playere' and can claimed that the one goal made ought
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