Viewing page 42 of 98

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

[[start page]]
78
[[red exclamation point in left margin]] [[red underline]] and another prince have died from their wounds [[/red underline]] in a Brussels hospital.  
Sept 15.  Further news of [[red underline]] german retreat. [[/red underline]]  The french occupying again Rheims.  Cooler and cloudy weather.  I feel glad of soon being back home.  Captain says we will arrive Thursday afternoon.
Sept 16.  Sunny pleasant weather.  Drew up Contract.  [[red underline]] Hooker-Kwanto. [[/red underline]] Weather getting cool to the point that warmer clothing is needed.  First impression of the kind since I left San Francisco.  Evening a lady physician Dr. Scudder gave a talk about medical missionaries in India and their work.  Very interestingly told [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] She is a woman about 45-50
[[end page]]
[[start page]]
79
of kind motherly appearance.  Her father was a missionary physician in India and as a girl she determined to study medicine after she found that hindoos refused to let their wives and daughters be healed by anything but [[red underline]] female physicians. [[/red underline]]  Says greatest drawback in her medical and hospital work is the [[strikethrough]] caste [[/strikethrough]] inexorable caste. laws [[/red underline]] and incredible [[red underline]] superstitions of their religion [[/red underline]]
Sept 17.  Cold night needed extra blankets.  Morning is somewhat foggy.  Siren blowing now and then.  This ship cracks and noisy crying of the joints 
Sometimes vibrates so much that writing is very difficult.  Finished packing my bundles. and [[strikethrough]] p [[/strikethrough]] valises.  Arrived [[red underline]] San Francisco [[/red underline]] about