University of Nanking - Linguist Yearbook (Nanking, China)

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102 'ri-ta L!NtlUlS'l ' THE VVEDDING One of the most noteworthy events of our year has been the marriage of MissrElizabeth Gottwalt to Mr. john.Alston. Imagine- a moonlight night, the brilliant not-a-cloud-in-the-sky variety, with. balmy spring air, even though the date is the last of February. Then picture a roadway bordered with a hedge and trees, gay with Chinese lanterns of all colorsg anda canopy, also festooned with lanterns, leading to the door of Sage Chapel. The interior is lovely, with bamboo screening off the seats and aisles at eachside and forming a fitting background for the ceremony that is to follow. Branches of' it cover the front of the platform, while above are potted plants and ferns. Mrs. Anderson is the soloist, and thenlo the familiar strains' of Lohengrin, the bridal party moves down the aisle. Margaret Keen and Ruth Hamilton are the flower girls, Miss Bertha F. Park, Miss- Rachel Franklin, Miss Besse Milner, Miss Rose Waldron, the brides- maids and Miss Erna Flatter the Maid of Honor. The ushers are Mr. E. C. Robinson, Mr, NV. Smith, Mr. A. -I. Hope, and Mr. E. P. Mills. Mr. E. A. Fowler is the best man. Mr. Keen gives- away the bride, who is beautiful in her wedding gown, filmy veil, and shower bouquet. Dr. Price of Nanking performs the ceremony, and as the Mendelsohn Wedding March is played, the bride and ,groom and their attendants leave the church. Later Mrs. Molland is hostess at a reception given in their honor at her home on The Hill. After a honey moon to Manila the bride and groom are making their home in Puchen, Ku, China. Two new missionaries were sharing the same cabin on the boat coming over. One fellow was a big healthy man who had never known a sick day in his life. The iirst morning out, a terrible storm was raging. The big fellow got up, had his cold bath as usual and then ate a big breakfast. He came back to his cabin and ridiculed the cabin mate who was with great difficulty trying to shave. The' boat rolled and pitched and screwed. After a moment the boasting young man looked at his room mate with a helpless, hopeless expres- sion, and putting his hands in the form of a cup before his mouth, he said Quick, when-e'll I put this Needless to say he put it with- out being told. ?. ..-... ,Afew yearsuago. a man was trying' to smuggle opium into Chengtu. I-le was also a butcher. He drove his cows in'through the city gate every evening and butchered them at night. At iirst he had no trouble. Finally suspicion rested upon him and the soldiers took the cows and slaughtered them. In the cows' stomachs were found little round tins of opium which the cows had been forced to swallow. At that time, when-the Dowager prohibited, it was final. The man lost his head the next day. fWe do not advocate quite nch drastic measures but we wish there was some power in China to see that the laws are enforced.

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SOCIAL LIFE 101 To Mrs. Keen's birthday, we owe the party held in the Keen home on january 29. It was intended to be a surprize, but if you have ever tried to pilot sixty Language School students up a slippery narrow Chinese road when the air is so clear and cold and crisp that the slightest sound penetrates and carries, you will have your doubts- as to the genuine amazement which our coming could have brought. But surprize or no surprize, everyone joined heartily in wishing Mrs. Keen Health and wealth and happiness, while Earl Otto, again in the foreground, presented her with a bouquet of flowers red and green and yellow, congratulating himself in song during the presentation that he was a lucky fellow. Perhaps he was, but the rest of us had our share 'oi good fortune. For once. regardless of -our tests in Chinese characters, we could all be monkeys, and most of US proceeded to prove it by the alacrity with' which we moved in the alphabet game--the vowels especially being called on to display a truly simian agility. The chief difficulty lay in a confusion of phonetics, poor English, and Chinese. Mrs. Anderson electrified us in one of the other games by announcing that her name was Lea, Lea, Lea, and even some of the men showed sudden inability to tell who they were. Not so with the Reformed Mission. Between 'iAnk -Ank-,Ank., and Yauk-,Yauk-,Yauk-, they succeeded in giving us a lively representation of Detroit and its leading industry. XVe wish it were possible to continue to draw for you the intimate close companionships of our everyday life and the bonds which are binding us more and more closely together as the days go by, but that is beyond the scope of this resume. For all who come'after us, we can only wish the same union in common Christian fellowship and the same harmonious relationships, as they prepare to give their lives in the most worth-while of all services. BERTIIA Smrrit Q' C C U A young house-wife Cnot one of the present Language classl knew some Chinese. but even then it is easy to use the wrong tone or the wrong word in managing a house-hold. This special time there were to be guests to dinner and the table boy was told to go upstairs and bring the chairs from all the rooms and to be sure that there was one piecie chair at each place at the table. XVhen the guests arrived and went to the table, the hostess was -astonished to iind a bar of soap beside each plate. lf there is one thing we are more careful about than another in China, it is that the water we are to drink be carefully boiled. Thus treated, it is spoken of as drinking water. I heard the other day about a woman who was planning a dinner for guests and she told the cook in preparing sliced cucumbers for the table, to put them to soak in water. She was very anxious that he put them in water that had been boiled so specilied drinking water. When she lead the company to dinner, they were all ,surprised to find a few slices of cucumber in the glasses of water at each place.

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WHNT ARI-1 'l'Hli WILD WAVES SA YINC 'IOS WHAT ARE THIS XNILD YVAVES SAYING. l . - i 4 l i Play rommillvr' and PItlj'K?I'.Y of my Lmyyimgp S,-11001, The Language School Play has become an annual event -looked forward to by the Community. This year the plot was quite original and unique and the performance was of high order, and well praised. The Play Committee was composed ol: Besse Milner. Chairman Dorothy Basconl Etna ifi,lLlU.C1' Emeline Bowne Mrs. Ruth Brcde Myrtle Stone Bertha Smith Dr. WflClKlb1'lClg'C lfiilfl Otto C. S. lic-en XVHAT ARE THE XVILD NVAVES SAYING? An original play written and produced hy the students ofthe Language School for the pleasure of the patrons of the Nanlcing' Association. on the evening of April 27th, at the Young Mcn's Christian Association, .. X X-. ,A 4 1