. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . werelong rows of white iron beds spread with 85 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK clean white counterpanes. As poor sickwomen and children lay between cleanwhite sheets, they looked out on cheerywhite walls and pretty red doors. GentleChinese nurses dressed in blue dresseswalked quietly about from bed to bed,bringing them food and medicine andspeaking words of kindness. Sometimes women of wealth were car-ried to the gate in richly decorated sedanchairs to see the doctors. Sometimes poorworkmen garbed in their soiled blue cottonwould bring
. Red, yellow and black : tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans . werelong rows of white iron beds spread with 85 RED, YELLOW, AND BLACK clean white counterpanes. As poor sickwomen and children lay between cleanwhite sheets, they looked out on cheerywhite walls and pretty red doors. GentleChinese nurses dressed in blue dresseswalked quietly about from bed to bed,bringing them food and medicine andspeaking words of kindness. Sometimes women of wealth were car-ried to the gate in richly decorated sedanchairs to see the doctors. Sometimes poorworkmen garbed in their soiled blue cottonwould bring their wives on wheelbarrowsto the porch of the hospital. Sometimesfathers would carry their little boys ontheir shoulders. Sometimes even motherscarrying their little ones on their backswould trudge up the white path on tinybound feet. As their eyes would first catch sight ofthe beautiful scene, the gray, the red, thegreen, and the yellow, many would exclaim,Ah! this must be heaven! We havenever seen such beauty Sometimes a smile would break over a 86. 3 o -fcj o 0) ~ JTE >» -3 •ft oo o. tn TWO LADY DOCTORS care-worn face and a sick woman wouldsay, Evil spirits cannot live here in thisloveliness. I felt them loosen their holdon me the moment I was wheeled insidethe gate. Now my heart is light. 87 VI THE STORY OF HAPPY PEARL FU CHEN, or Happy Pearl, was thetwelve-year-old daughter of Mr. andMrs. Tseo, who lived about one hundredmiles south of the city of Kiukiang. Amongall the Chinese girls who lived in the bigbeautiful city of Nanchang, there were veryfew who lived in more beautiful homes thanHappy Pearl. Instead of the yard beingabout the house, the house was built aboutthe yard, or court, and such a beautifulcourt it was, too, with its bright coloredchrysanthemums, its beds of roses, its mag-nolia trees, and its ponds of twinkling goldfish. In this very lovely garden Happy Pearlplayed, though really very little playingHappy Pearl could do. A look at her tinyfe
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