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THE AMERICAN MISSION 51
But judge of the Mission for yourself.
It stands in a walled compound of some twenty
acres, against two sides of which abut the wretched
dwellings and narrow alleys of the Turkish town.
On the other sides are open fields extending to the
mountains a mile aAvay. Within the compound are
the buildings of Anatolia College, a High School for
girls, a school for deaf mutes, a hospital of sixty or
seventy beds, and a Boys' Home. There are also
workshops in which trades are taught, and college
students may earn the cost of their education ; a flour
mill capable of grinding for a population of 4000 ; a
bakery ; a printing press and book - bindery ; the
houses of the Americans ; and a Turkish bath. You
learn that about 700 souls in all, counting boarders,
hospital patients, and Americans, live within the compound
walls. Space is limited, however, and native
servants live outside, and so do the native professors.
Regularity has not been attempted in laying out
the compound. Buildings were erected and added to
as suited the immediate purpose, and so a picturesque
village has grown up. Some of the Mission houses
are built on the eastern slope for its view of Ak Dagh
and the plain ; others face the west to get the western
mountains and haunting beauty of the sunsets. No
two houses are alike, nor on the same line of frontage.
Many are red-roofed ; lichen grows upon their tiles
wistaria clambers over verandahs ; and there are
balconies—or porches, in American speech—shadowed
by great cherry-trees, where they pick ripe fruit while
seated at breakfast. Among the houses go cobbled
passages and alleys that pass under old quince-trees,
and apple, and cherry, and white Hjulberry, and
walnut ; and here and there is a spray of pomegranate,
and above a fence appear now and then the tall
drooping leaves of Indian corn— for each house has
its garden. The college, too, has a pleasant garden
of its own, tree-shaded, and gay in season ; and so has
the hospital. This hospital garden has been formed
and maintained by a succession of English nurses who