Not Shattered Pieces of Porcelain the China Coast but an Island Off SPECIAL To THE KEB, Speaking of "bits of China," what does the phrase connote in your mind? Perhaps a rare old plate dropped by a careless house-boy ind_broken into fragments. Perhaps you refer to your several porcelain vases of uncertain Jdynasty as the "bits of china" you have collected. I remember "bits lof broken china" in Japan—all I could find to pick up from ruins of palatial residences in Yokohama a few months after the Jearthquake. Again, apropos of "broken China," we might be discoursing on the country itself, torn by civil war and banditry, now overtake the launch, and if you miss it to-day there will be another lone to-morrow!
Three hours on the launch brought us to Kang-Cheng. From there we travelled overland by sedan chair, along winding paths between paddy fields, under great spreading banyan trees, and up lover rolling hills on rocky trails. We reached Hai-Kau, village on the jsea_ (literally "sea-mouth") after dark. We made for the guest-room of the village chapel—alwnys preerable to an inn—to prepare our evening meal. We might have set. tap our camp-beds to spend the but enable him to save his fae, This was quite agreeable, whereupon Abingale appeared next morning to say:
"Se-gu (teacher), I would like"to resign. I am getting old, and' riot feeling very well. The work iv too much for me and I must leave you."
Of course you are only. fifty, Miss H——replied, "and that is not very old if you exercise to keep supple, But I, too, perceive that the work seems to be too much for you, so if you wish to resign, I would be pleased to have you do so by end of the month!"
The end of the month was near, Jand after the excuse given, Abingale had to feign: disability until his was Up.
It was this same Abingale who had been supposed to care for the [pony which the younger missionary used in her country work. Evident-were designed to exclude women broken in spirit in the face of Pan-American Conference in 1928, night, but the sailing-junk would start' at first peep of day and it ly he had a fear of horses which holding positions of supervision oF overwhelming disaster affecting not Jwhen this group, under the leader-management, and to change the ship of Miss Doris Stevens and the valley of the Yangtze alone but }was better to be on board. So with the girl from Kansas did not vast areas bordering on the Hwai the load-coolies leading the way, possess. And the pony was know-jerled during which women should Miss Alice Paul, challenged the and Yellow rivers as well. we trailed through narrow, dark ing enough to discern this fear. excluded from employment from Conference to pass a, convention streets toward the _junk-landing, This explains no doubt why one day tthe existing one of 10 am. to 5 p.m. to one of 11 pin, to 6am. On the [of the two Americas to grant equal which should call upon the countries the caption siges I cos Wlaieg of Ge oe lee cee bs eud Ficeo'te the Gianions verned me suteage rights to men and wanton, [Chita Was fortunate enough to Chinese" works that barked "too PONY, stone at any, and trying to reach him from when Abingale was cleaning the 4nd tying to reach hry fom nocent enough. Was it possible to The result was the establishment of He was not seriously hurt, but he Provide for the protection of women the Inter-American Commission. of lof this great country made it in-Our carrying cool led out in advisable, mot to say impossible. the darkness to the must have thought his end had Gufficiently and yet permit the Suggested alter Tt would seem as if the matter might be argued Women, which has spent the intervening years in a careful study of the legal position of women in the ind banditry there were but you could go ageless hulk of, th, dumk, It is an old saying "Uneasy rests the that come, for next morning at prayers. when Miss H—asked what hymn si Teached. "But" there were, inner tranafrzed is fed to. Burope, for bandit were tom pumerovs in, one isthe slumber of the uncrowned ey liver and see HoT Beat mebeaona casing "Ware they an Rae Saat Decase "he nema, tine Me tage og tate cane aire, ook very god [anoering call one back neo Paign to protest against either the [questions involving women, there Predloss t save that henaeameness. Then a noisy e&-lind. We started immediately after alteration of, or the re-adoption of,|this group may be found. the existing Convention.
'They most "active in the recent' mostings is not sufficient guarantee of im-women It from danger. Needless to say: that planation ensued. brought one more asy yeat of thelof the Advisory Commissi Ghoul SE eae cally ance ko "Watssiey ne woman tin dears agp the munity these days. foreign awaited the and all their baggage phe Two foreign
oura the Joke lat we re aloud figt-bottomed boat from to fawn to searath Semen tate sfenn St] maties $Betn! an international gathering. ly active clu; ne the time of the ut sent thing 0 Cieinene any Shinn elon Jan spread our, edi om to [REE oes, lo tea Washington Conference and Women fifteenth se of the Conferences Met do in her own country. So,]in the sea-breeze under the ian could Jof the one large cabin, we lay down Feat Pocky his: rd a riy he ry of the International before the foreigner became like The first gathering of the Inter-Labour Or-sky to catch a few hours sleep were over a trachle: other mortals, and while still in and that drifted national Labour Organisation of the ganisation one month prior to meet-the state of single blessedness, I before the lifting of the anchor at ow. Out of the sand-dunes rose League, was held in Washington in ings of the Nationality Committee, saw some interesting bits of China Four o'clock and full tide, With jumbied piles of black rock, seamed 1919. It produced several conven-Protesting then against the whole which I may never sec again. fand cracked and worn into wierd tions, which in turn were sent back matter of a convention Li work of women at night, the Open the creaking and screeching the anchor One of these bits was Haitang was pulled aboard. Once out in the shape by the ever shifting "sand to States-members of the League.
Island. Do you know where it is? open channel we struck a strong that takes its own time, but leaves Two of these especially concerned Door International representatives Women. One limited the work of
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