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-3- -tle things never had a chance to go to school before and they haven't had much teaching at home, so we mustn't expect too much of them.

  Tung Pa opened about two weeks late and is my prize school because, for all it is new and in a very small town, they now have 32 pupils, all girls, and a very enthusiastic teacher who is making a great hit. The teacher was in last week and was telling me about what a time she had teaching the children. She said that when she bad them make Arabic numerals, they objected because they were "foreign", and they did not believe her when she told them their science lessons. They are almost entirely outside the church, most of them from families who have had almost no touch with the Church, so they do not see why they should not have school every day of the week. She does not dare not let them come on Sunday and so when they come she has Sunday-school and at church time she says, "Now I am going to church. You may just sit here and study your Bible lesson and be very, very quiet. That is, unless you want to go with me. Anybody who wants to may go with me to church." And so far everyone has elected church.
  Of the other two schools which I hope to have, one would have begun the first of September except that cholera has been especially bad in that place and they have not opened yet. I hope they can begin within a week or so. The other is a place where we had not planned to have s school, but since school began they have become enthusiastic over having a school and I told them that we would help hem with $80 if they did the rest.- just as we had in the case of other places where we have opened new schools. I didn't really expect them to do anything, and I am not sure that money is going to be very plentiful, but when they got so enthusiastic and did their part I had to keep my promise, and a week or so will find a new school started there. I hope that it won't be more than two or three years until all these country places where we have churches will have schools as well, and it certainly looks as tho it wouldn't be any more than that before we could accomplish it.
  All the American missionaries have been busy these days working on the Interchurch survey. My part in it was not very large compared to that of the people who planned a work over larger territory, but it means that I should plan definitely what I hoped to do in the boarding school for the next 5 years, and not only in the boarding school but in the matter of primary schools; they really are not separate, because if we have more lower primary schools it means more pupils for the higher primary, but if we have more schools in the country that means that more girls can study at home, and less come to boarding school. I am glad that these plans had to be made now because I might not have been so prompt if I hadn't been having the pressure of some outside force, and certainly the boarding school, at least, has come to the place where it is ready for expansion. The way it has grown this year without any effort to get more pupils is a little indication of what is likely to happen when we try to get more. It means that within a year's time we must have some more buildings or limit the number of pupils to less than would naturally come. I have pretty clearly in mind what I hope to do.
  Next year we need a building for the third and fourth grades which will leave our present recitation rooms free for the use of the higher primary, that is the 5th, 6th and 7th grades. Then we must have some more dormitories and I hope not only for dormitories to use several rooms for laundry and bathing purposes which are at present squeezed into very small space. Given that much added accomodations and with the accessory equipment, we need add only one