Dear father, and mother:
Sajikkol,   Seoul,
Februarv 2,   1930.
A3 I  did notgget my "letter off till  Tuesday last time,  "
it included *n answer|tot your last letter received' that day;   and
so I have none to answer this time.     In reading over some of, ypur
old  letters  j  noticed  one  question I had  not answered,  as  to
whether missionaries were dependent   on their salaries.    As  far as
I have  seen,   they *ll  see^  to be hard-up *11  the time.     This is
not  so much because their salaries are inadequatellnor  because  they
do not manage well,   but   because  so many demands are made upon +hem.
I   suppose nearly every one has  one  or more  students.depending upon
the missionary's help,   and  there are, innumerable other" calls T| i)r.
Underwood  of Chosen Christian College is  the only one. I  know of who
has rich relatives.    He belongs to the Underwood'family of typewriter
fame,   and I  understand receives many  gifts rhich enable him to
entertain often Bind, on a  very extensive  3cale,   beyond the means of
His house is  frequently the  scene  of large
Fifty  or sixty at a  meal  I   guess istno   |
I  thinkghe is the  only one who ownsfhis own
acHoininet the college ca&pus,   and has a most
inspiring view iooklng^qut o^rer  the lower.course of the Han River
for miles and miles,  an island  in the bellow Sea at the mouth of
the river lifting its peaks in the  far western sky.    I^have been
invited there  several times,   but every time  something ha3 conflicted.
I want  to include in this letter a  list of my, gifts through
1928-29,   which will  show how the money from Trinity friends has  gone.
other missionaries.
parties ^nd^dinners
uncommon occurrence
house.     It  is built
I have  given up trying to place a   certain person1 s  pel ft  to a  certain
cause.     Perhaps, if you passion this list to the kind donors who have
made the  gifts possible,   It.will  suffice.
Yesterday we received an innocuous letter^from Han Pyung vong
which had been read by the prison officials andjpassed with  their seal.
He  sent  greetings to everyone.     I had  supposed.letters were not
allowed,   as.the^day I went  to see him I   s$w the  officials refuse to
pass blank postal  cards and writing material which  someone had  brou^it
to  ccive to a  prisoner.    Pyung Yong will ^be released Feb.  13-
Thursday was She Oriental New dear's Day.    For several days
previous;the  silk stores were crowded and  seilisgftheir gayest articles,
people in their immaculate white'.
The restaurants also  for days had been bee-hives of activity.
The making of the New Year's bread  is really quite a   grand process.
Everywhere along the  streets one  sees men groaning at the  end  of
enormous wooden mallets mailing a heavy,   sticky lump of  glutinous
rice spread  out  on a  ponderous wooden slab l*i the road.    Another man
dips water from a pas and pats.it over the dourifci" between blows,  very
dexterouslv avoiding just  in the nick of time the downcoming mallets.
At  one  Place  I   saw money in the bottom^of the pan,  and  I^wondered how
clean the coins were  getting at  the expense of the bre*dl     I  suppose
they had made a   sale and had no other convenient  place to lav the money
After the pounding process,,   the dourii is rolled into  strings like big
candles,   and-then-is ready for the housewife's   soup  on New vear s.