The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1926, Sheet 77

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THE LUTHERAN PIONEER.

Gary and Indiana Harbor, Ind., Erie and Johns-
town, Pa. There were 18,744 Mexican schoolchil-
dren registered in Los Angeles public schools
in 1923.

The majority of those coming in recent years
are laborers attracted by better wages, better work-
ing and living conditions in the United States.
They are doing agricultural work, railroad work,
and work in the steel mills. The large majority
are unskilled laborers, but some are working as
machinists, boilermakers, printers, carpenters,
plumbers, and as other skilled and semiskilled
craftsmen. In the Southwest the laborers live
largely in small adobe huts or in shacks of various
sizes and descriptions. The well-to-do have better
homes. In industrial cities they often live in tem-
porary barracks or small cottages

which are overcrowded, and fre-
quently unprovided with conve-
niences.

The Mexican newcomers are be-
coming involved in questions of
interracial character; these some-
times have raised questions of inter-
national complications, As many will
return to Mexico, doubtless the rela-
tions between Mexico and the United
States will be greatly affected by
these experiences of their nationals.

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grove = a graduate of Hanlin Academy.
bubbles on boiling water.

Crab’s eyes =
Going and stopping = conduct.

In order of teeth = by seniority. Character’s eyes =
meaning. Yo leave the dusty world = to become a priest;
to die. Fishes’ eyes = warts. To gnaw letters and lick
characters. = to study. Sicallows’ twittering = chatter
of women. Flowery pencil = your letter. Dyed in the
yellow spring = dead. To hang up the hat = to resign
office. J'o return to the excellent city = to be buried.
Empty mouth == no proof. The old gentleman = the
sun. I’ace skin thick — shameless. Collar and cuffs =

the manager. Half a day = a long time. To plow with

the pen = to be a schoolmaster. Skin-bag = the body.
The hundred surnames = the people. Three planks =
a boat. To ascend the cloudy ladder = to be promoted.

Sea-weeds and sinews = good cuisine. God’s footsteps =

miracles. Stone clothes = moss. Hands and feet = ser-
vants, brothers. A pair of drumsticks = twins. Water
and earth = climate. Jour open = a shilling. A large

A Group of Lutheran Chinese Evangelists.

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Love of the Chinese for Figures
of Speech.

Any student of the Chinese tongue cannot help
being struck with the excessive use made of tropes
by the writers of that language. Chinese literati
seem, indeed, to have an innate liking for euphe-
mism and “fine writing.” Does this arise from
love of pretentiousness or from a mistaken sense
of humor? It is hard to say; at all events, the
Chinese do not perceive that the excessive use of
tropes does not contribute clearness and definite-
ness; in their opinion it is rather the only way to
produce great effect and add suggestiveness. Let
the reader judge for himself from the following
examples : — ;

A thousand pieces of gold = your daughter. Golden
‘mirror = the moon. To borrow light = please allow me.
A thousand autumns = your birthday. Wine-bag; rice-
sack = a worthless person. A dull thorn — your wife.
To blow softly — to praise, fiddle of the hall = a min-
ister of state. Skirts and ornaments = women. Ears
and eyes = spies. Wind and damp = rheumatism. Pencil

pencil = a good composition. Yo pound the devil = to
soliloquize. Peaches and plums = to recommend a person.
Ground egg = potato. Heaven's flowers = smallpox.
Heaven’s lamp = moon. Sweet and bitter = one’s lot in
life. Head and eyes = a chief. Honored hall = your
mother. Zo break the strings = the death of a wife. The
(window) same window = fellow-student.

Our Missions.

Items of Missionary Interest.
(By the Editor.)

Protestant Work in Korea. — It is not yet forty
years ago since the first Protestant missionary came
to Korea. At that time there were only six Chris-
tians in the Jand. ‘To-day the Christians number
more than 300,000. ‘They have 3,400 churches
with 20,000 pupils in mission-schools and 250,000
patients treated in mission hospitals. ‘These native
Korean churches are supporting sixteen of their
own missionaries in Siberia, Manchuria, and in
the Chinese province of Shantung.