Part 7 (1/2)

”As stiff a course as possible ought to be arranged and if it is thought best the whole thing ht be outlined by the China Medical Missionary association For entrance requirements there should be presented a solid alish, with soe That her schools of learning ought soon to be able to supply such a de in mathematics, physics, chemistry, etc In other words the student must be equipped in the very best eneration at least, if not longer, the women of China will continue to seek medical advice from women physicians, and to meet the demand we must confront and solve another problem Co-education is impracticable just at this juncture We e, or a separate one entirely Whichever plan is adopted it et' that it is just as important to establish olden future when schools abound we shall have to think of state exareet the blaze of day in this wonderful country of ours, when she has wakened fro sleep we often hear about, and taken her place a the nations of the world, and God and ood'”

At the close of 1907 Dr Kahn had been back in China for twelve years, years of arduous, al labour; and her fellow missionaries felt that before the work on the new hospital building began she ought to have a vacation Certainly she had earned it Not only had she worked faithfully for seven years in Kiukiang, but she had, within the five succeeding years, established e city, where she was the first and only physician trained in Western sciences assisted only by two nurses who the year around, all day and every day Moreover, she had kept the work practically self-supporting, in spite of the fact that she had refused to econolass which could not be thoroughly cleansed She had insisted that her drugs be of the purest, and dispensed in clean, carefully labelled bottles, and had often furnished besides the food needed to build up strength In addition to all this, she so commended herself and her work to the people of the city that in 1906 she was enabled to hand over to the Wo and two fine building lots, to be used for a hospital and physician's hoo to Ae and rest

”Rest” for Dr Kahn evidently e of work; for she went at once to Northwestern University to take the literary course which she felt would fit her for broader usefulness aet back to China she did three years' work in two, studying in the suo, when Northwestern closed its doors for the vacation In addition to her University studies, she undertook, for the sake of her loved country, a hich is peculiarly hard for her, and al of the present unprecedented opportunities in China

The question may perhaps be raised as to whether days could be crowded so full and yet work be done thoroughly But Prof J Scott Clark of Northwestern University said of her, at this time: ”Dr Kahn is one of the hty-four h the class includes many seniors The subject is the study of the style and diction of prominent prose authors, with soh rank in the study of the principles of good English style during the first se the second se the very best students in a class of over three hundred members She is very accurate, very earnest, and very quick to catch an idea In fact she is nothing less than an inspiration to her classate to the Conference of the World's Young Women's Christian association held in Berlin, and from there went to London for six months of study in the School of Tropical Diseases

She had planned to return to Northwestern University to complete the work interrupted by her trip to Europe, and to receive her degree Her work had been of so unusually high a standard, however, that she was perranted her degree in January, 1911 She coh honour, and in February, 1911, she reached Nanchang, where one of her felloorkers declares, ”she is nificent from the officials' houses to the mud huts”

The new hospital was still in process of building, but the doctor began work at once in her old dispensary, and the news of her return soon spread

In a short tie of sixty patients a day, and several operations were booked some time before the hospital could be opened It was ready for use in the autuone on well, and patients have come to us even fro Lake The new building is such a comfort It looks nice and is really so well adapted for the work I would be the happiest person possible if I did not have to worry about drug bills, etc It is i any more money out of the poor people Our rich patients are very small in number when compared with the poor Yesterday I had to refuseto do so You see I had no idea that the ould develop so fast, and things have risen in prices very much the last few years”

At the tiress, and Nanchang, with all the rest of Central China, was in a turmoil Because of the disturbed conditions most of the missionaries left the city, but Dr

Kahn refused to leave her work With the help of her nurses she kept the hospital open, giving a refuge tofor the wounded soldiers None of the forty beds was ever empty, and many had to be turned away

The close of the Revolution did not, however, bring a cessation of work for the doctor She already needs larger hospital accommodation, three times as much as she now has, one of her friends writes But Dr Kahn delights in all the opportunities for work that are crowding upon her; for she says, ”When I think what race, it is, I think there is nothing that God has given ladly use in His service”

DR MARY STONE

I WITH UNBOUND FEET

II THE DANFORTH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL

III WINNING FRIENDS IN AMERICA

IV A VERSATILE WOMAN

[Illustration: [Handwritten] Yours in His service Mary Stone]

DR MARY STONE

I

WITH UNBOUND FEET

On the ”first day of the thirdChinese father knelt by the side of his wife and, with her, reverently consecrated to the service of the Divine Father the little daughter who had that day been given thereed that this perfect gift should never beof the little feet It was unheard of! Even the servant wo would have been ashamed to venture outside the door with unbound feet, and the very beggar woth No little girl as not a slave had ever been known to groith natural feet before, in all Central or West China That the descendant of one of the proudest and ical records run back without a break for a period of two thousand years, little shi+h Maiyu, should be the first to thus violate the century-old customs of her ancestors, was almost unbelievable

Even the missionaries could not credit it, not even Miss Hohose interest in the family was peculiarly keen, since Maiyu's mother was the first fruits of her work for Chinese wo with her To be sure Mrs shi+h had said to her, ”If the Lord gives hter I shall not bind her feet” But Miss Howe had irls hoes, without having been successful in a single instance, that she did not build her hopes on this One day, when calling in the ho about the rooood job of it unless you begin at once to bind little Maiyu's feet” But Mrs shi+h never faltered in the purpose which she and her husband had forirl's birth, and promptly answered, ”Did I not tell you I should not bind her feet?”