Then Miss Sterling stop me and say -

"Read me what is now written." I read; immediately Miss Sterling begin

action like one crazy -

"Robustness! - Robustness!" she cry out. "Do you not know that -

Robustness - means fat - a most awful insult to offer an American Lady"

Now what I wish most to know is, why is it that the most proper and

polite Chinese is the most rude and impolite thing to write to an

American lady?

Question III - One day every body run out of House because of loud angry

quarrel in garden between Sedia and his wife Eksaw.

Dr. Ewing come quickly and say, "So loud talking must at once stop."

Sedia say "Very sorry, Dr. Ewing, but what can do? If Eksaw want to be a

man, and be boss, why she no put on skirts and be a man?"

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