Germantown High School - Record Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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THE CLIVEDEN everything-candy and other delicacies. We even find chewing gum copied from America. Also, there are combs, pipes, and shoes, oh, yes, and the shoes are made of rubber. No, the streets in the city are not paved as a rule. They are plain dirt, and the roads are very muddy in rainy weather. The sidewalk is usually sepa- rated from the street proper by a cement curb, though there is nothing but dirt inside the curb. There are many stores-barber shops, and a few jewelry shops, too. In the city there are some big stores. Some of them keep open at night but most of them close at six. In the stores which handle clothing, they have more of their stock in materials than in fin- ished garments. Yes, there are some theatres, where they show moving- pictures, but we never go unless they have a Douglas Fairbanks picture or something else very good. The Koreans are usually downstairs and the foreigners upstairs. In the movies, the natives all smoke and drop ashes on the floor, which makes an awful mess. fEditor's note: The Eternal womanluj They smoke cig- arettes, but they also have pipes. Some pipes are very odd. One kind is about three feet long, with a tiny bowl at the very tip. On the highways, the traffic is run differently from ours. There, the traffic is on the left side of the road. The trolley cars run on the left too. It was hard to get used to the way they do it here, on the right. Most of the traffic consists of bull carts, water wagons, and loads of hay. Yes, there are automo- biles-chiefly Fords and Chevrolets. There are a few of the more expensive cars, too. ' The trains are very filthy. The natives smoke in the cars and every- where. It's not very healthful. There are three classes of travel, first, second, and third. The Koreans travel third class usually, as it, of course, is the cheapest. Certainly, we have running water and electric lights. Part of the city is lighted by electricity, and a few of the big stores have changing electric signs. Truly Korea is not to be taken lightly. She has perhaps one of the oldest civilizations in existence, and though immersed in her old culture, she is, by the grace of God, rapidly catching up in the new civilization. The com- mercial and missionary man from Amer- ica are blazing the way. Korea must be considered as important among coun- tries of the world. Waqlw if fx' as .ag N- : Wg .1 ru- I .:,e if,-few -4 - - . i v: w. ' f a 1 .,i1' .As 155, g 5:1153 . . .a . 4-, - -'K va jg 5 H . A 7 Y if' -. f 1-fr f' . -I-fe-1 -'il I- li 4F3i f ri - r.-'Wm-C '-Qs i. .di a- :n ' fix F.. 5 .'.. 4: W: Il 'firm'-' 's ails gi -4 - . . . rr: 1 LE. :: . '-. - - ,nl - l 55 '-. IP' wax . -1128 If:-

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THE CLIVEDEN and there, and after that, we had to write down what she said.' The first thing we mentioned was, of course, the subject closest to us. Education? began Majorie, YVell, the main item in the education of the Korean used to be the teaching of Chinese characters. The man with the greatest knowledge of Chinese charac- ters was considered the most educated. Some of the men achieve great pro- ficiency in this, and these men were the cream of Korean culture. Now, how- ever, the foreigners have introduced the English language, mathematics, his- tory, and the like. The foreign children are given the regular American type of education at the school in Pyeng Yang. There is a foreign dormitory here for the boys and girls of missionaries and business men. This is the only foreign dormitory in Korea. There are about one hundred and seven children in the foreign school. The dormitory is filled to overflowing. Plans are on foot to build a new one, which will require several thousand dollars. The native houses have walls of mud mixed with straw, and the roofs are covered with thatch. The dwellings are heated by building fires underneath the floor. At night the natives sleep on the floor, and thus keep warm. On entering the house, they remove their shoes. ' The women wash their clothing in some nearby stream. The garments are laid upon flat rocks and pounded withtwo sticks. They are turned over and over again, and continually pounded until clean. The same method is used for ironing them. The clothes are spread on a dry flat rock, and pounded in the same way. Their speech is the reverse of ours. YNe would say they talk 'backwards'. In Korea you 'needle a thread' instead of 'threading a needle'. Everything is like that. . . f The native Koreans dress' in long, white robes. The women wear a skirt which is wrapped around the waist, and a short jacket, either white or black. The foreign people wear regular clothes, the same as we wear here in America. On holidays, the natives dress in many bright colors. The whole picture is very gay and carefree. One item of the native dress on festal occasions is espe- cially interesting. The people like red and pink in contrast. They take strips of cloth in these colors or in other gaudy combinations, and sew the strips to- gether and thus have a showy sleeve. They also wear regular cotton or silk cloth, printed in stripes and hues to suit, and these make the feast times very brilliant indeed. Since Iapan took over Korea, her mail service is nearly the same as that over here. One thing is different, how- ever, and that is the censoring of the mail. Your letters are often read, and the mail is not very prompt. Fre- quently you' receive your letter in the wrong envelope. Candies and other delicacies that happen to be in parcels are filched to satisfy the appetites of the postal officials. There is a high tax on all luxuries, and a duty of one hundred per cent is not uncommon. Labor is very cheap in Korea, as in the other Oriental countries. Many regular commodities are unbelievably inexpensive. A live spring chicken costs twenty-five centsl Yes, twenty-five! Eggs are bought by the string. They are wrapped in long pieces of straw. The main point in buying eggs is to test their freshness. Eggs in Korea are rather dubious. Along all the roads and streets, there are wayside stands at which they sell --11.27 Il-

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WHIWE ANJID JIIQWWIIIIIDJIEBJIRS DAVID G. WRIGHT HE Suforpio is probably a rusty, ill-conditioned freighter. To us she looms immense-she is painted over her rust-by unforgetable associa- tions. YVhit and I went aboard the Suforpfo while she lay alongside the slip at Port Newark, loading iron piping and ex- plosive. VVe signed on as wipers, the lowest of the Black Gang. The first assistant engineer set us to work im- mediately, stowing stores, helping repair the circulating pump and scrubbing the corrugated iron floorings of the engine room with wire brushes and kerosene. Early the next evening the longshoremen cast us off and we put out of New York harbor in the gathering dusk and a misty rain. For a few days the sea was quite calm. V7e encountered several terrific squalls in the night somewhere off Georgia. The wind and spray were so strong that we could not stand on the forward deck, but found it necessary to crawl on hands and knees with the aid of a line. Our course brought us quite close to a number of small islands of the Bahamas. They presented beautiful pictures with their brilliant green palms and shining white beaches. Making the VVindward Passage between Cuba and Haiti at night, we entered a very choppy Caribbean. The water was the deepest imaginable blue. We had been spending eight hours every day scraping the tank tops. The scraping of the tank tops is reputed to be the meanest job afloat. Cramped between the lowest engine room floor and the bilge tanks, sweating in heat at the least a hundred and thirty degrees, tossed by the roll and pitch of the ship upon the untouchable steam pipes, crawling at full length in immentionable filth and bilge water, in darkness, with the literally deafening roar of the tur- bines above us, we scraped from the tanks the accumulated waste oils, paint chippings, cigarettes butts, rust, tallow and-other things. YVe awoke one morning in Colon harbor. Some twenty planes maneu- vering over the bay, a couple of sub- marines lying at anchor, the modern white buildings of Colon, all seemed incongruous surrounded by the jungle covered volcanic hills of Panama. A pilot and deck crew of darkies came aboard and we started the passage of the Canal. The intense heat necessitated our staying on deck all day to trim the ventilators. As the boatapproached the Gatun Locks, a few small banana planta- tions were seen lining the low shores. At Gatun the ship was lifted eighty five feet to the lake. The shores of Gatun Lake are tangled to the water edge with rank tropical growth. Occasionally there is a tiny ellowing with its grass roofed hut and its dugout canoes. Be- yond the matted vegetation on the banks, distant ranges of hills stick needle points up into the sky. From the lake, we passed into the canal itself, through the Culebra Cut, a great raw gash through a hill of rock, and finally in the Pedro Iniguel Locks, to be lowered. Around the last set of locks, the miro- flores, are a number of palatial residences and a country club, with fountains, but even here white men seem peculiarly out of place. Due to favorable currents, we kept n