Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittm
boys and one for the girls. She carried on. It was the ? that I was
able to go with a woman physician into some of the ho~s
>f the Chinese
patients and see how thlngs were. A bed had no bedding 1 it, just
boards. Might be shiny boards but they were boards, no ; 2ttress is
what I man. Of course they had covers and all. Of cou se I didn't
know the language at all, I didn't know what their conve ;ation was
about, but I could smlle. It was interesting flr,m the nr lical standpoint
because she would tell me in between what the aihn ~t was.
Q. Was she work- with a power class of people?
A. Well I would say middle class and poor. The poor, sc mmy didn't
have hares at all, they just wandered you know. Now eve: r home had an
Amah. She takes care of personal things. They donlt M ? bathrooms,
they didnlt then I man. Comdes, she took care of thal She would
put the girl's clothes away and so forth, and do the bed and what not.
!Then they would have a boy that would manipulate the j h kisha. There
was a pup. One was a bonifide minister, but she was dc ng the YWCA
work. I don't remember any other's names but that one. he mote me
a nice letter when I was leaving. I had a little Corona ;ypewrit er
that the Red Cross had lamed m, and I was writing lettr 'S somtims
at night, and she was wlting Fn another room. She said! "1 can hear
you now," see I was just planning to leave so that was p: !asant. I'm
sorry I didn't keep in touch with them but I've gotten 01 t of touch
with all close eiends.
Q. How long were you in Chfna?
A. Oh, I would say maybe three months.
Q. Did you like China?
A. Yes I did but I wouldnl t want to stay there. But the
transportation back--see all this while I didn't intend t
like that-was that an American woman who was associated
headquarters of Christian work, and I don't recall just a
she had gotten passage to the United States quite a while
time the boat would sail. She found she couldn't go at t
because I was going to go with Daisy Brown's sister, who
at Gen Ling College and whom I knew, because she was not
been well for many, many weeks and the doctors decided tlneeded
most of all was good American livhg and she shod
states. And they felt that I was just the person, I had
to go with her. I suppose she got her tickets the same ul
ticket. This worn who was a friend of the YWCA women fr
up her transportation to me and somone else may have giv
transportation to Mss Brown's sister. So that's the way
American Red Cross wasn't able to do anything in the way
at that tinu;, not for m anyho .
I
Q. Was Gen Ling College in S h+ngh~?
t
A. No it was in Nanking. Tha is north a-ways. Here is
way I got
stay long
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at it was,
ahead of the
at time or
as an instmctor
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t what she
pp back to the
ust the training
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m America, gave
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I got back. My
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