Dear father and mother:
Sa iikkol, Seoul,
February 17, 1929,
Just as I was starting to Yongs.ari Church
last Sunday night a letter came from home and I took it .with me
to read; then yesterday another one came, mailed Jan. 28; and
when I came home from church this morning found another here,
mailed Jan. 19.  So you see the same things happen here as there.
I was so glad to see the pictures; I thought you had sood
with them. Especially was I surprised at how well Aunt
looked. Am so glad to know she is well.  I could imagine very
well how the dresses looked, having seen the samples;: I think
they are fine looking.
success
Fannie
I  realized right away how  old   fashioned  the
missionaries  out here will  look when tliev  go home;     they are about
five  years  behind the  stvle when th
get back.    Mrs.   Swinney
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said the first thing when I came in at noon yesterday, "Who do
you suppose I got a .letter from?" She seemed very much pleased
in hearing from you, and srave me the letter to read. T thou gilt
you wrote an excellent one.
This has been a very eventful week.  It
> started out with Korean ditoners and ended up with revival meetings.
-Monday the Swinneys were invited to one of the pastor's homes,
and on Wednesday we all were invited, along with some others from
the language school, to vi sunsang ("teacher E,!)'s home for evening
dinner. He is the young fellow who teaches at the language School.
And the next day we all went to the home of Bro. Stokesf secretary
(also Yi sunsang) for a noon meal.  Then on Friday my teacher and
I had dinner together at a Korean restaurant.  ("Sunsang" is a
title that may be applied to almost anyone who has no specific
degree or office, althoughtits meaning is "teacher".  Its derivation is from the Chinese for "first-born", and so is rather honorific.  The preachers are called "moksa", which means one who feeds
the flock, like our word "pastor'*.  " Subang" is applied to men of
lower rank; is not honorific.  I remember you had a book years ago
entitled "Kim Subang".)
r At vi sunsang1s Wednesday night, we passed^
rthrough the courtyard, left our shoes out on the porch, and then
were conducted into his little room with its heated floor. We
/ played, a'Korean game of remembering numbered cards until the low
- $ /$* iMt tables covered with'food were brourht in.  It was one of the best
Korean meals I have had.  ^he Chinese custom is to bring in course
after course without number, and no one knows how much to eat, and
how many courses to pass by, not having any idea what may De coming.
But Koreans put everything on.at once
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had our steaming bowls
kooksu (like slender macaroni in endless strings) with some meat
and eggs cooked in it-- very appetizing-- for our main dish) a very
ample, brass bowl of it in front of each person.^ Then we helped
%'^k^ JU*>* our selves from other dishes; always enough dishes of each kind so
e#i»* a ..•••.. ,a.s to be within easy reach of every person-  "here was a hot dish
tt of neat balls, dumplings filled with a very tasty mixture of #
.-  -■• 7e^;" ;-chopped meat.  Then as for the cold things, there was
ck. J&»4 J "      kimchi,
" \      yaksik, which seem to be
f^^Cdh^  /preserved ginger and lo+us roots (whi
^^U^    '' a specially prepared rice in honey-water with pin
hen as for
md besides, the little egg*-and-vegetable cakes and the
* o^-m ^o t>e a part of every banquet.  Then there were ^\
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