Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . you can get a school of twenty little girlsbetween six and thirteen years old and have theteacher keep an accurate record of daily attend-ance, I will give each child ten cash [that is, onecent] a day, and I will come often to hear themrecite. He went home with this new proposition, anddirectly the ardor for school became glowing reports came to me; eighteen littlegirls were promised, and the school few weeks later I was on my way up the moun-tain-side, eager to see for myself the new found twenty little girls each seate
Nathan Sites; an epic of the East . you can get a school of twenty little girlsbetween six and thirteen years old and have theteacher keep an accurate record of daily attend-ance, I will give each child ten cash [that is, onecent] a day, and I will come often to hear themrecite. He went home with this new proposition, anddirectly the ardor for school became glowing reports came to me; eighteen littlegirls were promised, and the school few weeks later I was on my way up the moun-tain-side, eager to see for myself the new found twenty little girls each seated at her table,her book open before her, reading at the top ofher voice in the customary Chinese stjde. As Iheard them recite, one after another, I wasamazed at the rapidity and exactness they had ac-quired. They were using the usual beginnersThree Character Classic—a Christian book—andalso a Girls Three Character Classic, a native orheathen book which I had made over, expurgatingall the sentences which were objectionable. The. 3O co a U bo §o HIGH FINANCE 117 Hymnal, the CatecMsm, and the Gospels wereadded as the months went by. The children madesuch commendable progress that, except for theprinciple involved, I did not mnch regret having tocarry up the basket of cash every month. The dignified little teacher was a success. Shewas bright and also tactful, and her pupils werewell trained both in their books and in good man-ners. Being a Christian she led her little flock tothe chapel to the church service and to Sunday-school each week. This was the very first day school for girls sup-ported by the Womans Foreign Missionary So-ciety, and I was proud of its success and a few years villages on every hand wereasking for girls day schools, even faster than theBoarding School could turn out students pre-pared to teach, and no reward was asked or ex-pected for attendance. To-day in the hill villages of Bonnieburn andthe wild cities by the sea, thousands of sweet
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