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Show WHERE BOARD IS NOW CHEAP vi V '-Clrls In the; Mission Schools In China 4 ' Pay Only $18 Year for J A Their Meals. (it I ' It Is refreshing In these days of high ' prices to learn, jthai : somewhere It . Is . ; possible to .get' one's daily bread and its accompaniments at a low figure. ,The place is; China Tengschow, in the province of Shantung. There, in the - mission school, a girl may have three ' meals a day;, for $18 a year. I i Tlie menu sounds strange to tlie ; school girl of the western world, but ! ito the Chinese student it. Is highly satisfactory. sat-isfactory. ;.Steamed corn bread and Vraw turnips ' that have been ; kept in f brine and then chopped quite fine com-.'pose com-.'pose the regulation breakfast almost iall the yeari For dinner there, is usually usu-ally millet 'cooked dry like rice, and ;some hot vegetable.;' .Twice a week the 'vegetable Is cooked 'with fat pork ln-stead ln-stead of in lean oil as usual.. Supper is the same1 as breakfast. Perhaps half "a dozen times a year, however, they 'celebrate vith more luxurious fare. Christian Science Monitor. |