Title: Life and light for woman
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Woman's Board of Missions
Subjects: Congregational churches
Publisher: Boston : Woman's Boards of Missions
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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neighbors in India. Among other experiences, he describes native Christians appeal-ing to him : Please help us to get water. It was three o'clock, and the heat was terrible. Yet these people, right in sight of fresh water, were refused it, and could get it only from a filthy tank. 1914] Mothers and Children at Ponasang 253 MOTHERS AND CHILDREN AT PONASANG BY DAISY D. M. BROWN, FOOCHOW, CHINA THE new Bible Womans Training School opened at Ponasang this week. If you will come with me I will show it to you this afternoon. As we near the building we hear the voices of children—the house seems to be full of them for we hear their laughter from basement to third floor. When we open the door there are two or three shyly peeking around the corner or just disappearing up the stairs. Your surprise now is quite beyond control and you venture to remind me that you really would rather see the Bible Womans Training School to-day and visit the kindergarten at some other time. But outward appearances are some-

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A womans class in the FOOCHOW MISSION times deceiving and so it happens in this instance for though the children are just now much in evidence this truly is the training school. And why the children then, you ask. Just because if the mothers come at allthey must bring their children and so at present we have twenty students(we expect two more this week) and fourteen children! How I did laugh that first day—it was really funny to see them coming. Practically every student had at least one child, and three of them were babes in arms only twelve or thirteen months old. Toward night the problem began to look a little serious and I thought we would have tohire a special nurse girl to take care of the little folks or the mothers would not be able to study at all. But that evening I took a census and 254 Life and Light [June found that practically all could go to the day school in the church nearby. I confess that during the afternoon I had felt a kindred feeling for the famous old woman who live in a shoe

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