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three of us announced vve had finished the latter, each became skeptical of the other two. We fell upon each other with a sort of rough-andtumble examination, in which no quarter was given or received; hut

the suspicion was finally removed that any one had skipped. We took

for a class motto the early Saxon word for "lady," translated into

"breadgiver," and we took for our class color the poppy, because poppies grew among the wheat, as if Nature knew that wherever there was

hunger that needed food there would he pain that needed relief. We

must have found the sentiment in a book somewhere, hut we used it so

much that it finally seemed like an idea of our own, although of course

none of us had ever seen a European field, the only page upon which

Nature has written this particular message.

That this group of ardent girls who discussed everything under the

sun with such unabated interest, did not take it all out in talk, may he

demonstrated by the fact that one of the class who married a missionary founded a very successful school in Japan for the children of the

English and Americans living there; another of the class became a

medical missionary to Korea, and because of her successful treatment

of the Queen, was made court physician at a time when the opening

was considered of importance in the diplomatic as well as in the missionary world; still another became an unusually skilled teacher of the

blind; and one of them a pioneer librarian in that early effort to bring

"books to the people."

Perhaps this early companionship showed me how essentially similar

are the various forms of social effort, and curiously enough, the actual

activities of a missionary school are not unlike many that are carried

on in a Settlement situated in a foreign quarter. Certainly the most

sympathetic and comprehending visitors we have ever had at HullHouse have been returned missionaries; among them two elderly

ladies, who had lived for years in India and who had been homesick

and bewildered since their return, declared that the fortnight at HullHouse had been the happiest and most familiar they had had in

America.

Of course in such an atmosphere a girl like myself, of serious not to

say priggish tendency, did not escape a concerted pressure to push her

into the "missionary field." During the four years it was inevitable that

every sort of evangelical appeal should have been made to reach the

comparatively few "unconverted" girls in the school. We were the sub