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280 CHINA MISSION YKAR BOOK.-decreased. No one in need is turned away, but thoseable to pay are called upon to do so, that those whoare unfortunate may be cared for, not at the expense ofWestern friends, but by the giving of a just return forservice by the well-to-do Chinese.The trained nurses carry into the homes standardsof cleanliness and care quite unknown before, and bytheir skill, devotion, and gentle dignity are giving tomany a glimpse of the beauty and honor of service. Itwas not easy for them to discard all their old prejudicesagainst menial work as beneath the woman of refinementand education, but not a few have learned to do so, andtheir example as pioneers will have lasting and wideningeffect. When the Woman s Union Medical College sendsout its graduates to take their places as skillful andthoroughly educated physicians they will find less prejudice against women filling such positions than greetedtheir Western sisters a generation or two ago. Themissionary physician has conquered that for them, andthey will find large opportunities from the first.The wards of more than one woman s hospital areveritable forcing beds, where under the most favorableconditions seeds of truth are sown and nurtured, to betransplanted later to homes and communities, where theypropagate and bear their fruit "some thirty, some fifty,and some an hundred fold."EDUCATIONAL.W T hile schools and colleges will be reported elsewhere, there is much connected with general work forwomen which can best be considered as of this nature.In more than one place there are museums open towomen on certain days, or certain hours of the day,where the missionary, or some one whom she hastrained, conducts the curious crowds that come aboutthe rooms where the exhibits are arranged, tells them ofthe wonders of nature, the curious devices of men s