The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1925, Page 78

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78 THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

They also dust and keep in order the schoolrooms
and the washroom. From 7 to 7.45 is study time,
and in the following fifteen minutes the girls may
buy a bowl of hot noodles or rice from the noodle-

Higher Primary Pupils in Their Sunday Clothes.

man, who brings his wares to the door each
morning.

By eight o’clock the lower primary day-pupils
have arrived, and then school begins with a twenty-
minute period for devotional exercises. The girls
memorize a hymn each week, in consequence of
which they can now sing without using their books.
Religion, language, and arithmetic follow. At
10.45 they are quite ready for the first meal of
the day.

In the dining-room there are three square tables
with benches at the sides. Six pairs of chopsticks,
a small saucer, and a china spoon are at each place.
On a side table are the rice bowls and a great
wooden steamer of rice. When the bell rings, five

Higher Primary Pupils, Hankow.
Lady at the right is Miss Olive Gruen, missionary.

bowls are brought for each table: two or three
dishes of vegetables, meat or fish, and always a dish
of soup. ‘The rice is served by one girl at each
table, grace is said, and then the party begins.
Chopsticks are very handy implements when one is
used to them, and it is surprising how quickly three

or four bowls of rice with other food can be dis-
posed of. The foreign teacher can get all she can
eat with chopsticks, though so far she has not gotten
beyond two bowls of rice. Tea or just hot water
help the last grains of rice to slip away. At the
close of the meal all arise, and thanks are given to
the Giver of all good gifts.

An hour of rest, recreation, or work in the way
of washing clothes, mending, or sewing brings the
study hour from 12 to 1 o’clock. From 1 to 4.15
there are four lesson periods of composition, writ-
ing, singing, drawing, history, geography, nature
study, and physical exercise, each two or three times
a week, as the case may be.

At 4.30 comes the evening meal, another breath-
ing space, followed by a study period from 6.30 to
8.30. With the evening devotions the busy day is
brought to a close. On fine days, walks or recrea-
tion on the playgrounds, about a block from the
school, bring a little variation in the schedule, also
visitors on Sunday afternoons or a visit home once
a month.

There are now sixteen boarding pupils in the
higher primary and thirty-five day-pupils in the
lower primary. In other parts of Hankow we have
two lower primary schools for girls. When, the
Lord willing, the older girls we have now grow
into faithful Christian teachers, we hope to have
more schools for girls.

Hankow, China. OLIVE GRUEN.

Death of Sophronia Hull, Catawba, N.C.

The chill hand of death has claimed another old
warrior of the Cross in taking from among us Mrs.
Sophronia Hull.

Sister Hull was born on January 22, 1845, and
died on Friday, April 3, 1925, aged 80 years,
2 months, and 11 days. Her husband, Pinkey Hull,
died about five years ago. She was the mother of
four children: John F., William S., Edward L.,
and Milton, two of whom survive the mother. It
was the desire of both father and mother to send
Edward L. to the seminary and prepare him for
the ministry, but he took sick and died before this
cherished wish could be carried out. The deceased
is survived by.twenty-four grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren. She was baptized in her in-
fancy at St. John’s Lutheran Church (white) in
Catawba County, N. C., by the Rev. Polycarp
Henkel. She was confirmed in 1860.