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things I'd planned done except to put away
my clean clothes & sorted the white from the green
beads. After all had
gone, 1st Mrs. E & then I sat down & had another big
dish of ice cream, eating sandwices also, when
I came up & undressed & no dinner for me – was
awfully tired as I'd been on my feet so much, &
early retired.

July 18, 1922 – Tuesday
A very busy, & on the whole, satisfac-
tory [satisfactory] day, as I got so many odds & ends done; the Chi-
nese [Chinese] carpenter came shortly before the company
yes. & fixed 3 trunk trays, & took the 3 pictures to cut
glass for. I glued on my brown-eyed doll's wig, sew-
ed [sewed] in the trays of the trunk (my newest one in the
dressing-room. Put away silver, etc., used yes.,
mended my oldest trunk tray till I used up all
the glue – will have to buy more the next time I go
to town, as I cannot live without it; corrected note-
books [notebooks], a job I haven't had to do for a few days;
strung green glass beads Miss P. said I could have, etc.
Didn't get to town to send money order to Dr. M.; per-
haps [perhaps] I can go tomorrow; no water yes., so my
supply gave out this p.m. but got some before bath-
ing [bathing] time. The girls started at 4:30 yes., taking the
pastor & a Bible woman with them; Ma Tuit
also went & about 16 girls. Ma Saw Mya came for my
B. lesson; my bed wasn't made all day. The China
man [Chinaman] did not come around today, when I had time to
devote to him. Went to H's to prayer meeting this eve,
Miss P. called to Ma Sair Kiu's mother so was not there,
nor at dinner either. Mrs. H. led; no refreshments
but candy-fondant; our hostess had on a new
dress which she had just made. The baby waked up
so Mr. H. brought him down, also a poem he wrote about
him, & later another he composed on the way out
here. Talked about the approaching series of meetings.
Could hear the B. praying aloud at a near-by idol shop

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July 19, 1922 – Wednesday
Killed the biggest brown scorpion I've seen, in my
room not a foot & a half away from me under the
desk; an awful smell afterwards; gives one a sort
of creepy feeling, as being upstairs I'd been feeling
comparatively safe. The Chinaman came after
break; I had to wash all 3 glasses for the pictures & cut my right
little finger in the process, when I promptly ran
for the iodine bottle. He went away & came back
later with the metal clamps for my bed which he fi-
nally [finally] got on after school. Mrs. H. came in the midst
of things, returning 2 L.H.J.; & then Mrs. Lutter & her
Cath. friend & guide, Mrs. Hanna, arrived so we two
entertained them, as Mrs. E. & Miss P. had left in
the meantime to call on the B. lord bishop of all
Burma about the love letters a 7th standard girl
has been getting from a phongyi in this neighbor-
hood [neighborhood], the 4th having arrived today. The high muck-
a-muck [muck-a-muck] was away in Arakan but they talked
to the next highest, driving in so as not to pollute
the ground with their shod feet. The answer came
today from Mr. Wiatt about the language study, so
Mrs. C. wants me to drop it – and nothing will
please me more, & start right in tomorrow
supervising the upper classes, which greatly need
it. I tied the net on my bed before dinner, as I came
up as soon as the co. left in order to get my bath.
Made out a list of Perry Pictures I'm going to ask
Marie M. B. & her S.S. class for – quite a job. Must
then fix the catalogues, etc. up to mail it to my