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Tuesday, 5 January
Tonight we entertained the Porters and the Stuarts. We had a really fine party, with pheasant and everything. The conversation went along nicely on various themes, and I made only one bad break. That was when I remarked in connection with the work that P. U. M. C. and various foreigners are doing in nursing Feng's wounded soldiers at the Nan Yuan barracks that I thought it was a foolish thing and that one of my staff could be much better employed teaching at her regular job than acquiring thrills dressing Chinese soldiers. My viewpoint was not popular, and I desisted. The company was interesting and we had some good talk about the Y. C. S. C.

Wednesday, 6 January
There was much excitement when I came in from work in the afternoon to find that our Christmas fruit cake from home had arrived. Wwe are living for the other packages.

Thursday, 7 January
The main Christmas box from home arrived this morning. When the slip came Dorothy tore over to the post office to get the package, and at noon we had our second Christmas. We opened the box, and enjoyed package after package. Grandpa and the boy we called in and made open their gifts before us, and they were quite delighted. It wa s a happy occasion.
In the ev^[[e]]ing I went to Wen Yu Hui, and we had a good but small meeting, with Chao Yuen-jen speaking on "Chinese Tones." Dr. Chao has studied in America an^[[d]] taught in Harvard. He is now in the faculty at Tsing Hua and doing research in the national language.

Friday, 9 January.
We had lunch at Alan Priest's and right after lunch Alan and I went out to Liu Li Ch'and to look at reproductions of Chinese pictures, and to visit curio shops. Dorothy went to call on an old friend inthe city for a few days. Alan and I had a long and exciting afternoon, seeing everything there was to be seen, and making a go o d tour of the shops.
In the evening there wasa birthday party for Carey at the girls' house and a riotous time