K imwha,   Korea,
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98
1933.
Dear Father:
Vry
ur letter of :iay   23  came last Thursdaywor
Friday,   and that  of June A  came  just an hour  or  so ago#
I  am sorry notfto have written  sooner thisfweek,  but^during
the day  it  seems hard "to  find time  and  nearly  every night    t:
something  is  going on;   and besides,  unless  I   so to  the  church
or write while the baby'is awake,   there  is noVnance to use
the typewriter.        . h' -, |
Today  the baby  is  two months  old.    Ruth  just
spoke  of your letter coming the day  she was born,   and now
again on the- twenty-eighth.    While I was!telling herfthe
contents  of your letter,   the baby^seemed tofbe restless,   and
Ruth  said  to the baby,   ''Listen + o what your grandfather has
ho   say'1.    We asked the photographer to  come this morning,
and he took three pictures.     He worked  for an hour to gfet
good  ones,   but  the baby would. notfemile when we wanted to
take a picture,   so he took themfcwith  just a  serious  expression.     When the baby  iaugjhs,   itfis  especially  attractive,   and
I had hoped  for  one picture iauschinc.     I hope there
wil
1 be
at least one out of the three -pictures worth sending to you.
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Everyone asks if we have had a picture -taken and if we have
sent a picture t of the grandfather.  Ruthfsays if you could
see the babv vou would be very hap.ny, for ^he says it looks
like me; and then, too, it is strong and exceptionally alert.
Of course it sounds like thefusual parental pride to say
such things, but everyone sayshthe baby is unusually pretty
and intelligent looking and looks as well developed as an
older child.  Ruth makes an ideal mother; she. spares no
labor and yet is always happy about it; and is wise in her
care.  She is a diligent reader bfi all literature on children
and child training which fails into her hands,  ^he women of
r a visit, a nd hear all about
the church every* week come in
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Ruth's methods and learn k  ^* aat deal, no doubt.  There couk
hardly be a better class orif'child training, for the conditions
for learning are ideal when the interest is aroused and-..there
is a concrete example andla|reai experience before them.  A
few.of course know I little about proper rearing, but many
know little more than to stop its crying by feeding, at any
and all hours,~or- else to pick it up|
We seem to be having theffirst of the summer rains
The last several days have been cloudy with intermittent
showers.  It had been dry for some time and the farmers were
longing for rain,  ^his has come inftime to do the rice much
good, ^ou will see by the:pictures1I have clipped from ♦**
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the feel of the air on a foggy day in San Francisco.
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per (or Ruth clipped many of them) that the rice has bee
t out in the fields now.  Today it is very cool; there i
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