Dear  father and mother:
.Sajikkol,   Seoul,
January 5,   1930.
Another year has  slipped up quietly on us,  and this time
we must  get used to writing two new figures in our dates.       The
past year has "brought many chances with us both,   but change is
not necessarily decay.     I hope this year lias in store  for you
many changes in the way of happy experiences and  '$j$f§ in being
useful  and  new visor.    " * 1
iJjf   '■
1      I have had no news  fromlyou this week:,   but tomorrow or next
day will probaol^ bring a   letter from you.    \ have had a  surprising
number of Christmas and' ltfew ^ear cards co^e  from Korean friends,
some printed and  some written,   but always v^ry  simple,  with  just a
few Chinese characters and  nerhaps a  Bible verse. I
but oh',   so cold.     It  must  set
am quite  coziy with mv padded
^here  is no danger of cold,
It  is   oright¥and   sunny^today,
down near zero at! night.    However,   I
clothes,   and a  warmf^floor to  sit on.	
damp  feet,   which are  so apt to bring on colds.    And I know of no
heating method  so economical as this Korean system.     Instead  of
Reaping on the coal  in a   furnace all day long,   oneflittle  fire in
the morning suffices.     I understand the^J*panese and Chinese living
in. Korea ftdopt  the  same  system of floor heating. I       sf 'W    f
^he  students are  coming^back  gradually from their country
homes to the  schoolslin Seoul now after their rather sudden and
violent vacation early in December
have cleared off any in the meantime
only X>een disseminated mpre widely,
refusing to take examinations until
have been,released.
The atmosphere  seems not to
j   perhaps theffexcitement has
^here is tai'* of|the  students
the  students who were imprisoned
*
While in Wonsan I heard this; account  of the way our Lucy
Cunningham SchoolIthere closed. %-When the discontent among the
students  started, iMiss Oliver,   the principal,  was in doubt *s to
what to do;  and  so she  sent one of the teachers,  Miss Cherry,   to
Seoul to report  on the  situation.    Miss Cherfy sent back a   telegram
in code.     It read:   ^Flowersjall  blooming.  No  forced blooms.    Advise
transplanting immediately/1 which meant "all the  schoolsfwere closed,
but not|by order of authorities,   bu+   onltr by voluntary action of
students.     "Tie "transplanting11  was dismissal.
My teacher's wife is  still  in a  very critical  conditlor.
When I  left  for Wonsan she  seemed  to be  getting better,   and that
day Han moksa  was planning to ^aye her teeth removed.    But|the
doctor told them that  she would have to take  some medicine  for a
while-before  she would toe  in condition to have |ip work done.    After
starting the treatment,  her left  side became paralyzed and  for several
davs  she could not  +zk.e ant nourishment .     She cannot talk and  she
does not recognize anyone.
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Y/hen I  came  back  from Wonsan,   my teacher looked very  bad;
and he told me there was no hope.    He has been lying down all day
today,   beinff worn out  from anxiety and  looking after the  family,
I   suppose.   <The  oldest daughter,^Sang A,  has been doing the- cooking
and housekeeping. "V.
My boarder,  Myung Ho,   came back yesterday from his home.
He  seems* to be very weak,   out  he renorted  that he had been to the