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at the Institute their paintings in various media, and pastels.  Miss Mullikin's work is by far the better of the two.  Most of her pictures are good, and a few are really excellent, especially one of the road to the Nan T'ien Men on T'ai Shan.  Miss Starr is a teacher at Yenching Women's College, and a devotee of foreign as against Chinese painting. She was once at Tsing Hua.  Her exhibition was notably inferior, and had very few pieces of merit. Some were so poor in drawing and color that they would have brought discredit upon her students.  Her things, however, were priced much lower than Miss Mullikin's, and she made several dollars on sales.  On the whole I should say that some of thw work was worth going to see, a little worth possessing, and most of it quit without originality or inspiration.

We had a good supper of Chinese food in an oddly mixed crowd at Timothy Lew's.

Saturday, 5 December

We decided to go to Paotingfu for the weekend.  I hurried through my morning classes in order to get to the station to catch the eleven-fifty train, and met Dorothy there on time only to learn that the train had been taken off some days ago, and no notice had been given, nor had the time table regualrly published in the paper been changed.  Well, we left the boy to buy the tickets and get us a place on the afternoon train when it came in, while we came home and got some lunch. We went back at two-thirty, and founs that the train due in at twelve-twenty had not yet arrived. Obviously it could not go backuntil it came in.  We waited until four for the train to arrive, fought a good fight and got a place, and then waited until five for it to leave.  What with the two hours late start and delays along the road we got to Paofu about midnight.  We managed to get over to the South Suburb in spite of being stopped twice by soldiers, and had a difficult time trying to wake the gateman and convince him that we should get in. He happened to be a new man just employed who did not know me, but finally he allowed us to eneter. Then we had to throw stones at the windows and call and whistle to get Hugh waked up so that could get in.  He came down and greeted us with the news that Hugh Bennett Hubbard hadbeen born the preceding Tuesday, and that both Mabel and the