out of Beloit and now a part of the missionary cause in India) S "7 

 in a letter dated July 29, 1903, and carefully marked by 

 Wherry, "Keep — about Margaret Mc," in early evidence of 

 his lifetime devotion to children, could add: 



I suppose since you heard that you are uncle to a new niece 

 you are nearly as proud as we are. Really she is very pretty 

 . . . Such a lot of hair. This will rub off, of course, & then 

 it may come in light, but I think her hair will eventually be 

 black . . . Margaret Elizabeth. Mrs Allison very irrever- 

 ently calls her "Maggie-Liz" and sometimes "Meg-Liz!" 

 Others call her "Columbia," because she came so near being 

 a 4th of July baby. She sends her Uncle Will a tiny little kiss. 



Not so good were a series of medical disasters that had 

 befallen him. First, he had suffered a hand infection, which 

 event he was to convert into a scientific report. Of his trop- 

 ical fears, the beri-beri had not been realized; but the amoebic 

 dysentery had. Making light of the matter he wrote (August 

 14,1903): 



I have been staying home for a few days. Some of the festive 

 amcebse took me for an easy mark and Dr Musgrave has been 

 treating me. I am all right now and will return to the lab 

 next week. One always expects this after a couple of years 

 but I am quite chagrined at falling down in my technique 

 after only six months. I am having a lovely time of it watch- 

 ing the boatmen on the Pasig River or sitting on our beautiful 

 veranda. It is shaded by beautiful betel nut palms and enor- 

 mous fire trees. The latter were in full bloom last month and 

 the view up and down the street was truly gorgeous — a mass 

 of flame-red flowers resembling our nasturtiums. In the even- 

 ing the damedenoche (lady of the night) emits the most 

 delicious perfume. Why at night only would be an interest- 

 ing problem to investigate. No doubt there is some pretty 

 legend connected with it. — Sometimes we amuse ourselves by 

 teasing our monkey. We call him Uncinaria duodenalis Dooley. 

 Woolley (the son of the great temperance man) fed him on 

 40% alcohol in sugar solution until he became a chronic 

 drunk. He would become shockingly inebriated and next 

 day hold his head in both hands in pitifully realistic manner! 

 Woolley must have felt pangs of remorse for he brought him 



