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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1933

MRS. PEARL BUCK

An American Tribute

A MISSIONARY TO THE OCCIDENT

Mrs. Pearl S. Buck has resigned as a missionary of the Presbyte rian Church. Resignations by mis- sionaries are not unprecedented- several are noted in the New Testa

Buck has ment-but since Mrs. been perhaps the best-known Ame rican missionary stationed in China it is natural that national atten- tion should have been drawn to her withdrawal from her connections with the Presbyterian Mission Board. The decision has been en tirely Mrs. Buck's; good will and good sense have apparently marked every step in the process.

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In one sense, Mrs. Buck has been less a missionary herself than the wife of missionary. It is her husband, Dr. J. Lossing Buck, who has been doing the work in China to which the casual observer would

FARM LIFE IN THE NEW TERRITORIES

HARD WORK AND CONTENTED MINDS

(BY OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

Ta. the average European, or even to most of the older Hong Kong residents, farm life in the New Territories means very little. The younger people might think such a life can only have one meaning that it implies living in obscur ity, remote from civilization, with nothing to interest one, and, what is even worse still, just one dull round of monotony, without any form of pleasure.

when sending out for them, but ont here in the farm, one can safely pay for them without any fear of being given "counterfeits. While en this subject, let it be known that the averag New Territory. farmer is no longer the try bumpkin ""that he was a few He knows on which

years ago.

"'coun-

side his bread is buttered, and any effort to get his goods from him at an unfair (to his mind) price Perhaps it would be as well it would be met with a very firm but I confessed here that I thought the at the same time polite request for same myself, until quite recently "mister to get his requirements elsewhere." I tried to buy half- when I paid a visit to one of these

a-dozen eggs cheaply but was told little farma. By little farms. 1 re fer, only to the homestead, for the that if I wanted cheap eggs, I grounds or I should perhaps say should not have taken the trouble

and, are big enough, and I was

to go out to the country, for such eggs could very well have been ob very surprised with what I saw.

Arriving in this place early intained in the city! the morning, I was greeted with the sight of an almost empty cottage. There was nobody in with

Reverting to the old lady men the exception of a little girl who upon seeing me shouted for her

tioned in the opening passages of ah po very excitedly 4 Po, by this article, she proudly told me the way, means grandmother that she was seventy-four years of Chinese, and very soon an aged

age but she had never seen what lady came out to see what

TH

Those Modern Minxes!

be most likely to attach the label "missionary" Even in the case of Professor Buck it is true that his distinguished services as dean of the college of agriculture in the University of Nanking do not fol- low the pattern of what was com- maily regarded as missionary work a generation ago. Mrs. Buck has herself taught regularly in the uniamies. I soon put the good woman the inside of a cinema was like,

versity,

was

at ease and we got on quite friend. ly terms 18 I speak Cantones But it has not been as a teacher uently and soon she was telling in a mission college that Pearima all about farm life. Buck has become internationally famed. It is as the writer of no vels, now translated into a dozen

or

All of

be rest, he or she does not rest, but goes and sees what "help car given to the others.

and during the whole of that Four: and-seventy year, she had paly been to Hong Kong, once and even then, her visit to "that big city" was only a short one. She said that she was told that Chinese girls were now getting to be more and more like their western sisters, and the greatly deprecated. this saying that unless the women, kept their places properly, that would be the ruination of a very grand nation!

The rest of the family was out plaughing and tilling the land and attending to the very many things more languages, that she has

that call for daily attention. There gained the attention of the world.

are no shirkers on a Chinese tarm and anybody who does not pull his What has given Mrs. Buck's or her, weight very soon hears all books their importance? Much of about it. Father" goes out early the answer is to be found in a and he is closely followed by study of her literary method. The "mother" and the rest.

These farmer folk live a very child of missionaries in China, Mrs. them have their own part of the Buck has never ceased to keep her field to look after and if one hap simple life but they seemed very self immersed in Chinese life. Chi-pens to finish work sooner than the healthy and although they do not anything other than their work nese have been her intimates; she

appear to take much interest in during working hours, they are has not knawa Chinese life: she

They has lived Chinese life, Added to

In this particular farm, the peo- not the same people, once they that, she has saturated her mind with Chinese literature-not the ple were mostly concerned with the have, finished for the day.

cultivation of rice, and although then sit about in the open stiff, academic philosophizings of

I did not stop to listen to all the taken part in impromptu concerta the sages, but the racy, vivid ro- kind old soul had to say, I gather (with their own

that make up an entire ed that this job was not by any course) and generally make merry till as late as 3.30 or 9 p.m. when school of Chinese literature which means an easy one. the West scarcely knows exists.

Far away at one end of the field, "lights out" is sounded and then Thus it happened that when the I saw a little animal running about the place is thrown into darkness, West found its ear caught by the and from a distance I thought it and quiet reigns till the first cadences of the style in which Mrs. was a full grown Alsatian dog, but streaks of dawn when once again Buck wrote "The Good Earth," it when I got closer I Found that it the place is thrown into activity. was the latest addition to the declared that her missionary back-stock, in the shape of a nice little ground had sent her to the Old calf. She was very shy, and all Testament for her model. Yet what my attempts at getting close to

munces

1

and

instruments, or

had actually occurred was that her proved, futile. This calf was SUNDAY CONCERTS Mrs. Buck, thinking her tale of only a week old but she was already Wang the farmer in the forms of the Chinese novel, had accurately translated into English that tradi- tional Chinese style

It is in such an incident that the

great favourite as I could, ses by the way the family fossed over her whenever they could spare. a few minutes.

Ducks and Haus.

importance of Mrs. Buck as a truc About twenty or thirty yards missionary is to be discerned. For away from the house, was a fair the thing that she has been able sized pond, not very deep; and to do is to get ht, the very heart here I saw a sight that would bring

AT THE PENINSULA

COMMENCING ON JULY, 2

An innovation that last year

and comfortable of another culture, and then put joy to anybody's heart. There must attracted hundreds of people to down on paper, for the benefit of have been hundred ducklings the spacious those forever otherwise debarred, swimming about,, making a good Lounge of the Peninsula Hotel and deal of noise as they chased each which afforded excellent entertain- enough of the essence of what she other and meshed their heads in ment on Sunday Evenings is to be found there to give a reasonably the water in their search for food, reintroduced next Sunday the July coherent and accurate understand. They looked very healthy birds, with an opening Symphonic Con. and plenty of trouble is taken over ing to her readers.

them as they fetch vory good prices when fit for the market,

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cert,

If there are 1,000,000 readers of

The programme for the occasion, to be announced later, and com- her books-and the estimate is pro

Not far from this pond was what prising an interesting selection of ran, instrumental music by popular bably too low-it is possible to say may be called the chicken that there are probably at least but this enclosure was rather on composers, will be rendared by the the primitive side though it served massed bands of The Hong Kong 1,000,000 more westerners who will its purpose quite well. All sorts and Shanghai Hotels, Ltd. under never think of China or the Chin of fowls were in this enclosure and the conductorship of Mr. A. Gell- When I asked if there were any man, the accomplished band leader. exe.

gain without sympathy and chickens, 7 was taken to yet an

where a few Home sense of onemoss. That is other "reservation"

hundred chickene were strutting missionary service of inestimable about without a single care in the value, toward the building of that world brotherhood to which the churches dedicated. --Christian Science

are

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