Life and light for woman . got thepromise of Kabuas vessel for August, but then theGermans turned and said they did not know asthey cared to let one of their captains go. Theyfear that if the vessel is lost they may be called onto pay for it. That is the way things stand now,as far as I know. Of course I have to get readyfor touring, as, if Dr. Rife comes, there ought notto be any time wasted. But things are decidedlyuncertain, and there is no opportunity to hear againbefore September. The letters from the Marshalls tell of muchillness there, and many peoples dying. The Eng-lish steamer brough
Life and light for woman . got thepromise of Kabuas vessel for August, but then theGermans turned and said they did not know asthey cared to let one of their captains go. Theyfear that if the vessel is lost they may be called onto pay for it. That is the way things stand now,as far as I know. Of course I have to get readyfor touring, as, if Dr. Rife comes, there ought notto be any time wasted. But things are decidedlyuncertain, and there is no opportunity to hear againbefore September. The letters from the Marshalls tell of muchillness there, and many peoples dying. The Eng-lish steamer brought the measles, and many peoplehad them, among others. Dr. Rifes little girls, andalso some of the boys who are with him. Two ofthem had them very seriously. Chicken pox,whooping cough and dysentery were other sick-nesses mentioned. The different vessels bring them, and the people haveno time to get over one before another one comes. Several of our teachers-lost children, some with the whooping cough, others with NEEDING A SCHOOL In the chapter on Giving in the Mahabharata, tbe great epic of India,,it is written : A man who has ten cows should give one, and the man wholias one hundred cows sliould give ten, and the man who has one thousandshould give one liundred, all giving proportionately. igoSI Eager for School 539 LAGER FOR SCHOOL BY MISS BERTHA P. REED, OF PEKING THE little school at the North Chapel has opened with a flourish. Ireally think it miglit be called a flourish, for its popularity seems sogreat. It surely goes to show that the desire of girls for education is agrowing one among us. The fortunate girls who have been there beforeare all back again, as happy as can be to be together once more. And thereare others who want to come so much, and we should so love to take themall, if it were not for the limitations imposed by four walls.
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