the putty-faced
laundrymen, the only specimen of China they have ever seen," said Miss
Hughes. Dr. Stone spent the month of May in New York, attending lectures
and clinics in the hospitals there. As she was starting for Chicago at the
end of May, she wrote Dr. Danforth:

"Do you think I shall be able to see much clinic in two weeks? That
is the only time allotted me, and my only hope is that you will be
the 'master of the situation,' and help me to spend every minute to
the best advantage.... I have attended as much clinic as I possibly
could this month, but it is awfully hard to get around in New York.
Do you suppose I would be able to go directly to Wesley Hospital
Monday, and do you think Dr. J---- would have the time and the
interest to show me the inside methods of the hospital? He wrote me
a most kind letter and invited me to do so.... Two weeks will mean
a lot if I can be right in the inside track of things. I want some
time on the eye and ear work, besides a few clinics on dermatology.
I know two weeks will not be enough for the much I want to see and
know, but since it is the only time I am to have, I know you will
help me to make the most of it."

Thus did the indefatigable little doctor take the "much-needed rest" of
which her friends in China had written. That she did make the most of her
two weeks is testified to by Mrs. Danforth, who visited many of the
hospitals with her, and who says: "In visiting the hospitals she never
missed a thing. She saw everything--nothing escaped her notice, not even
the laundries. She was always keenly alert for every idea that would
improve her hospital."

On her way back to the East, Dr. Stone stopped at Ann Arbor, for she was
eager to revisit her "dear old campus," and the faculty under whom she had
taken her medical work. "We had a lovely time in Ann Arbor," she said in
writing to a friend. "Dr. Breakey, in whose home we stayed, arranged a
meeting, or reception, where I saw most of my old professors. Then in the
parsonage we met all the ladies of our church. Next day I had a meeting in
the church."

The next few months were filled with almost incessant labour, chiefly
speaking and making friends for her work. The cordial responses which she
met everywhere never became an old story to Dr. Stone and her letters are
full of enthusiastic accounts of them. "Here at Silver Bay, a society wants
to support a missionary and