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WOMAN S WORK EDUCATIONAL. 293to them the term "rice-Christian." These girls form anucleus of a new social system in China. They arecentres of light, dispelling ignorance and superstition.Whether they marry or go out to teach or to studymedicine, everywhere their influence creates a newmicrocosm.Needs. Their name is legion. Buildings are toofew and too small. One school is erecting a new threestoreybuilding 122 by 62 feet, and until that iscompletedthe present building will be greatly congested. Studentsin many places clamor for admission and cannot beaccommodated for lack of room. Libraries are few andfrugal. In referring to her library one principal writesthat 100 volumes were added this year, but most schoolscannot speak of additions since they have not yet arudimentary library. One school has just had a grantfor a library. As for scientific apparatus, only a verysmall percentage of the schools are at all well equipped.The teaching staff isinadequate with reference toboth foreign and Chinese instructors. One schoolwhich reports twelve Chinese teachers tells of an arithmetic class so congested as to compel the teacher to teachthree grades of work during one period.There is a need of schools for defectives. Thereought to be more normal schools. There ought to beseveral centrally located kindergarten training-schoolsto make possible a more general establishment of kindergartens, inasmuch as a prolonged infancy and quickenedperception are fundamental needs of the Chinese character.DAY-SCHOOLS.Ichaug, Hankow, Hanyang, Wuchang, Kiukiang,Nanking, Soochow, Suugkiang, Ningpo, Hangchow arefairly well equipped with day-schools. In Wuchang theWesleyan Mission has eight day-schools for girls andeight mixed schools.