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RITES FROM CHINA, e 141owing is an extract ' letter:recently: eceived fromr H B. Refo, a university radUate of 1920,'- and now teaehing. 'in Canton yhistian polpge, Canton, China: 11y Sunday School class has us' left. fold it in my room tvery Sunday morning and ?uch 4 class ! I shall never grow 'Id teaching here. Am already 'en years youiiger and I've' been -bere only a few weeks. We oiaed our class this morning with that of the teacher on the oor just below, having mostly inging. Now, the other teach er happens to be a voice teach r, and the boys sing with a illingness and with a pleo ure unknown in a similar cl" in America, so all that I had t do was' to add to the volume. My day classes are as interi esting as my Sunday Scho class, whicli is made up of bo rom my day classes. An eaching manual training, gen eial science (which will be all chemistry after the first semes ter), Bible and military train ing; Naturally, I prefer teach ng the general science, because 1 specialized in that at the uni versity, but I get along in the others - all right.- Now," the irill is a special treat. The boys thin it was a kreat stunt to fight inthe World War. That Is how I" happen to be helping with the drill. We have mili ary training in only two of the grades of the high school. The 'irst year has a Boy Scout br anization. Both have one alf hodr for setting up exer ises and the other half for rill.. 'The object is exercise. The longer I stay here the etter I like the place and the eople, both American and hinese. It is really a beauti 1 ' jlace.. The students say hat there is not another place ike it in all China, which may, of course, be a little exagger ted, but will certainly give an Idea of the place we have. Cer tainly there is not another loca 'on like it in Canton, and Can on is a city of two million. I ike the teachers here, because hey do thinks like I enjoy see eng them done. .The students ~re novelties to me. They are Bike sponges-take in every Shing, every word that you say. hyare hard workers, in fact, 0 much so, that a strict rule is enforced that no one may be in his room or study between 5 and 6 every evening. How :ever, when they play, they play just like they study-they put .All they have ~into the game. 'The Chinese are exceedingly isolite and their respect for ~their teachers is more by far hat most Americans hold for the President of the United States. You can 'see, there pre, the opportunity that an merican teacher has ,in such Ii institution as thia one.I al,e lesrned thpt the keyword fir~i prices and courteous at town n fi ne ay 'or anohr that Y am from "Ling.. Naam, which is the name by which the college is known.. It is a magic word in Canton.; One - from Ling Naam could go broke and buy as mich.as one liked from many stores on credit. ~Her,e at the 'college the teachers' enjoy every privile}e possibie. I have a nice large room, well furnished, and pri vate bathroom. We get,10 per cents off on everything that we bu from the. college book store. The college has a "buy er" who will get anything for you from ganton. That saves time and expense of crossing the river. We have a,n excellent mess for the unmarried men at the college. /'We have a regular system of having the married teachers eat with us from time to time and of our-'eating with them in their homes. Our clothes here consist- of white duck every d y -in the week. Laundry is bery cheap, n thQ old washwoman plan, nd white duck is considerably eaper to wear than $25 to O ,suits of- clothes. They are much . cooler, fresher, and tter looking. verything is much cheaper h e than in America, which f makes -possible so many co eniences that are not pos si i America. Of course, th a e some at home which a we an ot have 'here. As far as n , is concerned, we are mill ai s intChina. *N lo g ago, I went with i our re her, a few other : teach s d some students, 2 girls d oys, over to a small ' villag to Christian service. I One' ag" woman was bap- * tized. hew,hole vi)jage was 4 out to he nd hear. Those 4 that chId ot get into the buildifi ro ded atound out side. P e acher spoke in Chinese, I on't know what he was kizg about, but it was inte stin to watch the crowd. Am leaing a little Chinese. Have one ur of it every day. There are t so very . many words, but e words are pro nounced in fferent tones to mean duff t things. It is very easy to that you do not eat Chinese hen you mean that you do ot understand Chinese. 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