. Life and light for woman. re story I must tellyou. Among the brightest and bestof the students who came was PekCio, a woman who. had formerlybeen a student at the girls brought a little daughter nineyears old, but after a few weeksdecided she could not stay as shecould not earn enough out of schoolhours to pay the dollar a monthboard for the child. She was sucha promising student it seemed ashame to have her go, and a waywas found to help her financially sothat she could go on with the was so grateful and came upand thanked me again and again for the help received. She ta
. Life and light for woman. re story I must tellyou. Among the brightest and bestof the students who came was PekCio, a woman who. had formerlybeen a student at the girls brought a little daughter nineyears old, but after a few weeksdecided she could not stay as shecould not earn enough out of schoolhours to pay the dollar a monthboard for the child. She was sucha promising student it seemed ashame to have her go, and a waywas found to help her financially sothat she could go on with the was so grateful and came upand thanked me again and again for the help received. She talked withme about her plans for the summer and her hopes for the future—shewould have made a strong worker, I think. It was Tuesday that I sawher last as she was starting home with her little girl. The followingSunday evening she died of plague. I do not know what will be donewith the little girl. Of course, I will not allow her to be sold if it can behelped but will if possible see that she is taken care of and THE CHILD AT WORK 1914] Our Field Correspondents 551 So in our first term we had something of sorrow and tragedy but muchof happiness and joy. Pek Cios going is hard to understand but doubt-less if we could see through long reaches of time we would see why itwas best. The fall term is looked forward to with eager anticipation. The onein charge has a few more words of the colloquial at her command whichwill be a great help to the running of things generally! We will hopefor less sickness and look forward to greater things ahead. Mrs. Arthur H. Smith writes from Western Hills (near Peking):— A New UpliftMr. Smith last autumn rewrote the Uplift of China for a new Englishedition of 17,000, mostly subscribed for before it was published. Theyexpect to get out another edition before the year is out. It i« accepted byHigh Churchmen, Low Churchmen, and Free Churchmen. The titlepage of the book, as used by the London Missionary Society, bears itsL. M. S. imprint,
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