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 WILLIAM JAY SCHIEFFELIN 
 
 PRESIDENT 
 
 THE AMERICAN MISSION TO LEPERS 
 U. S. A. News Notes. 
 
 FLEMING H. REVELL 
 
 TREASURER 
 
 At Last, after meeting many obstacles, the site lias been selected for the 
 Federal Leprosarium. The Louisiana State Colony has been purchased and will 
 be expanded as rapidly as practicable. This brings joy almost unspeakable, for 
 after these years of uncertainty, a United States Hospital and Home will care 
 properly for all our friends with this disease. One of the first needs is for a 
 larger Protestant Church that will harmonize in character witli the other build¬ 
 ings and the Catholic Church already there. The small Protestant chapel was 
 built several years ago under the impression that another site would be selected 
 for this Federal Hospital. The superintendent of the Colony has been appointed. 
 
 . he else in the whole wide world could fill the place just like Dr. O. E. Denny, 
 graduate of Pennsylvania University, who was for six years in charge of the 
 largest leper colony in the world, at Culion, Philippine Islands. His place in the 
 Philippines will be hard to fill, but he will be a great asset to this work in the 
 United States. 
 
 Bethany Cottage. 
 
 A Home for thirty Leper Women, Chiengmai, Siam—built by the Women’s 
 Interdenominational Missionary Union, Washington, D. C. 
 
 Mr. Fleming H. Revell has been appointed to represent the American Mis¬ 
 sion to Lepers in the Missionary Conference called for Shanghai, China, next 
 spring. 
 
 “McDonald” has found a place “where He Can Go,” for, thanks to the 
 good work done in his behalf by Bishop Hughes and Dr. Robbins of Boston, 
 and Mr. Danner representing The Mission to Lepers the Massachusetts Legis- 
 

 lature passed a special bill, permitting “McDonald” to be admitted as a patient 
 in the Massachusetts Leper Colony. He is now in a comfortable cottage, a happy 
 resident of Pcnikese Island where he will remain until he becomes a cured 
 patient, or until arrangements are made for transfers to the new Federal Hos¬ 
 pital at Carville, Louisiana. 
 
 NEWS FROM AFAR. 
 
 A Chinese Official has given $5000.00 with which The Mission to Lepers 
 has bought an island off the coast of South China. On this site a model colony 
 will be established and maintained for the benefit of the thousands of leper people 
 of that district. The size of the colony will be determined by the resources that 
 may be offered. Money and helpers are needed now for this attractive oppor¬ 
 tunity to serve the Chinese in a large way. 
 
 Sam Higginbottom is here from Allahabad, India, and wants a new bun¬ 
 galow for the Superintendent of the Untainted Children’s Home at Naini. When 
 some one said “In your Leper Village you are working up a blind alley,” he 
 replied, “I am following just behind Jesus Christ.” 
 
 New Pictures of the Mary Stoner Leper Village, Chiengmai, Siam, are 
 very interesting. She is a widow woman who, by careful saving, sent us money 
 to build ten cottages. One sanitary cottage, caring for two patients can be built 
 in Siam for $150.00, and Dr. McKean says it will last 150 years, probably more. 
 Ten of these cottages, built by Mrs. Stoner’s money, provide homes for twenty 
 outcast lepers. At the dedication of the Mary Stoner Village the Prince and 
 other officials were present and said this was a great object lesson to a non- 
 Christian land. They brought a grant of 5000 ticals from His Majesty’s Gov¬ 
 ernment in aid of the Asylum. The day closed on a happy group of Lepers put¬ 
 ting away their meagre possessions in the neat little cupboards, and lighting the 
 fires, for their evening meal, in the convenient brick stoves with which each cot¬ 
 tage is provided. Isn’t this better than a memorial stone in a cemetery, seldom 
 visited? 
 
 CHRISTMAS GIFTS. 
 
 Letters of Thanks for Christmas Gifts sent to the Leper Homes last year, 
 have been recently received. From all of these we get most inspiring messages 
 of thanks to the donors who made the sending of gifts possible. 
 
 At Nasik, Bombay Presidency, they decided to buy a set of Indian Musical 
 Instruments for tlieir Rirtans. A Rirtan is a combination of Bible Stories and 
 Songs by which the Bible is brought to the Lepers in a form that appeals to 
 them. 
 
 At Dhar, India, they bought clothes for some men who had newly arrived 
 and who came practically naked, and also provided a special treat of food for 
 all the patients. 
 
 Bankura chose a gramaphone of “His Master’s Voice” make. They also 
 have some records with English hymn-tunes, which help in the teaching of Bible 
 songs. 
 
At Tarn TaAan the Superintendent added 48 Rupees to the 80 sent and 
 bought Kurtas, and jackets for all. 
 
 Mary Reeij of Chandag held her check, needing, this fall, three times as 
 much to buy a really good warm woolen garment for each of her sixty leper men, 
 rcomen, and children. She says they have missed this “comfort” for five years, 
 because of the Kaiser’s wickedness. Will we let them miss it still another year? 
 Her words are: 
 
 “Please convey to the kind donors of the Rs 00 my heartiest thanks for their 
 gifts which were intended for Christmas 1919, and the assurance that these tokens 
 of their practical interest in the Master’s work are greatly appreciated by,— 
 
 Yours, in His blessed service, 
 
 Mary Reed.” 
 
 A partial view of the Mary L. Stoner Leper Village, Chiengmai Asylum, Siam. 
 
 Rawal Pindi send thanks for the timely help, enough to buy a sheet for 
 each inmate. They say, “The Indian uses a sheet for a great many purposes. 
 He wraps himself in one at night in lieu of a mosquito net to keep off the mos¬ 
 quitoes. He uses it to wrap up purchases from the bazaar, to clothe himself with 
 in the day-time, etc. 
 
 I sent the evangelist to the bazaar and found a kind of sheet which cost 
 Rs. 80 for 39 sheets and then I had enough money left to buy a brightly colored 
 handkerchief for each leper and each servant in the asylum. These articles were 
 accordingly distributed on Tuesday afternoon and it would have done the hearts 
 of the donors good to see how delighted the poor creatures were with their gifts. 
 They salaamed again and again.” 
 
The Ramaciiandrapuram patients’ allowance is reduced and they needed 
 extra food in famine days, fruit to cool themselves with, a special diet to prepare 
 the Deaconess for an operation, etc., so they thank the Lord, and you His mes¬ 
 sengers, for the sweet surprise and ask God to bless each one of you. The sum¬ 
 mary is:— 
 
 Rupees 50 for buttermilk for lepers and children, for 3 months. 
 
 50 “ fruit allowance of 2 annas each, a month. 
 
 25 “ a shady pandel for just the lepers. 
 
 5 “ deaconess’s diet. 
 
 5 “ the pastor’s daughter’s wedding present. 
 
 5 “ the Helper’s boy’s little new son. 
 
 Rupees 140 Total. 
 
 Mr. Manry for Allahabad Home assures the givers their money brought 
 
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 great happiness and will for a long time to come. It provided a magic Lantern, 
 an alarm clock for each Home, Boys and Girls, and clothes for untainted girls 
 badly in need. 
 
 At Salur, India, they bought a hand harmonium, ordered a pair of cymbals 
 and a drum, and send their grateful thanks and salaams for the kind gift. 
 
 One Home needed sweetening most of all and bought a little, coarse sugar— 
 
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 jagry- 
 
 BE IT KNOWN TO ALL.—The Mission desires to send at once practical 
 “Holiday Greetings” to all Leper Homes. Needed articles are soap, blankets and 
 sandals, (bandages, medical supplies, food and clothing are always in demand.) 
 The articles should not be sent if it is possible to send money instead. Good 
 American dollars will buy much more right on the ground than here. Special ar¬ 
 rangements are being made to secure quantities of soap. The price of a box of 
 soap is not a large item, but even a child may send a cake of .soap if not a box. 
 
 The cost for sandals is 30c to 50e a pair, needed to keep the leper’s mutil¬ 
 ated feet from contact with the bare ground. Blankets bought in the native 
 markets will cost from two to three dollars. A blanket will warm the body as 
 well as the heart of one leper all winter. The society makes an appeal for these 
 genuine Christmas gifts so that every worker among the lepers, and every leper 
 under the Christian care of the Mission, shall know they were remembered in love 
 by the folks in America at Clmstmas time. 
 
 Offerings for this Leper’s Christmas Day will be received and acknowledged 
 by any Representative or by Mr. Fleming H. Revell, Treasurer, The American 
 Mission to Lepers, Inc., 15C Fifth Avenue. New York City. General fund gifts 
 should be sent to the same address. 
 
 GENERAL NOTE. Please remind all helpers and representatives of The Mis¬ 
 sion to Lepers everywhere that American friends are now asked to provide an annual 
 budget of $219,150.00 or the equivalent of $25.00 each hour of the day and night for 
 America’s share of this round the world task.—Even FIVE DOLLARS will take a 
 twelve minute share of this annual budget.