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"TheWOMAN S WORK IN GENERAL. 269(b) By liospital Bible-women, that is, by preaching to clinicpatients and their friends when assembled in the waiting-room orby talking to individuals among them ; by morning and eveningprayers conducted for the in-patients and servants, and bypersonal work in the wards.(c) By dispensing charity at times of special distress, as forinstance in the famine region. "The sense of gratitude hasturned indifference and even antagonism to cordiality to themissionary and her message."(d) By giving out to neighboring women such work assewing, embroider} , etc., by which the very needy may gain ahelp, at least, toward their livelihood.primary object is not industrial work so muchas to get in touch with more women. Several havebecome enquirers."In one place (near Ningpo) a smalltowel factory was started to provide employment forwomen, where formerly the Christian workers metantagonism, as there the livelihood of the women wasdependent on their manufacture of paper money (idolmoney). The work is now full of encouragement.(e) By means of meetings held regularly once or twice aweek, to which Christian women are urged to bring heathenfriends and neighbors.(f) And last, and perhaps the most important and effective,because of the personal work involved, by visiting in the homes,including house to house visiting, following up hospital patientsin their homes, responding to invitations to call, and by itineraries to less cultivated regions of from a few days to severalweeks in duration.One lady, though responsible for school work at animportant centre, writes of her itinerary on a donkey onan eighty-mile "circuit," and of how one day she rodefifteen miles and held meetings in six different villages,finding attentive listeners everywhere. "This work isso needed that we should like to give our entire time tosheit," says.Though visiting has been largely in the homes ofthe poor and ignorant and among the great middle class,occasional reports come in telling of work among heathen