Life and light for woman . My greetings of gospel peace to your whole family. KuNG Chien Fang respectfully writes. [Kung is the family name, and Chien Fang—meaning Spicy Fragrance —is one ofhis Christian names. Most Chinamen have three or four.—Ed.] 526 LIPE ANt> LIGHt. \_IVov^fnl>Bii JOTTINGS FROM A JOURNAL. ? What do the missionaries wives do? is often-asked. The question may be partially answered by reference to the journal lettersof Mrs. C. C. Tracy of Marsovan, Turkey, from February to May of thisyear. Not that Mrs. Tracy has consented to its publication, oh, no! but afriend venture
Life and light for woman . My greetings of gospel peace to your whole family. KuNG Chien Fang respectfully writes. [Kung is the family name, and Chien Fang—meaning Spicy Fragrance —is one ofhis Christian names. Most Chinamen have three or four.—Ed.] 526 LIPE ANt> LIGHt. \_IVov^fnl>Bii JOTTINGS FROM A JOURNAL. ? What do the missionaries wives do? is often-asked. The question may be partially answered by reference to the journal lettersof Mrs. C. C. Tracy of Marsovan, Turkey, from February to May of thisyear. Not that Mrs. Tracy has consented to its publication, oh, no! but afriend ventures without her consent to glean such items as these :— An egg hunt for the girls of the orphanage. Two hundred eggs werehidden in the shrubbery of a pretty glen near the missionary grounds, andthe little girls had the fun of hunting for them. Many of these Easter eggswere contributed by the sisters (women belonging to the Protestantchurch) ; the rest, of course, by the missionary BREAD-MAKING IN TURKEY.(From Missions in Eden. By courtesy of Fleming H. Revell Co.) A teacher in one of the schools has been betrothed by his father withouthis consent. (That would be a high-handed proceeding in America.) Little Wallace Smith likes to live in Turkey better than Americabecause he has a lamb and a kite and donkey rides in Turkey. (Probably,too, like most missionary children, he prefers the native bread to the courtesy of Fleming H. Revell Publishing Co. we present apicture of bread-making in Turkey.) 7<?Pp.] JOTTINGS FROM A JOURNAL. 527 Had a call from the governors first and second wives and sixteenfriends, besides children. They said a new and fourth wife was coming. A heavy hail storm. The boys gathered two bags full of the stones, sowe were able to have ice cream two days in succession. One hundred and ten were present at the womans prayer meeting inour house this week. The Greeks are coming more and more. The missionary children had a little entert
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