bombs. ... & on Sat a Sikh shot a head constable and a 

 subinspector of police. They are very bitter. 



Some of this bitterness of soul got into the animals. (Wherry 

 was always sure about these Indian transmigrations.) Lillian 

 reported as follows of her husband who "had just left in a turn- 

 turn this morning:" 



He really left yesterday on a camel but it acted so badly that 

 he walked back. The camels are all acting very badly just now. 

 The riding camels won't let anyone mount, & if one manages 

 to mount, the animal tries to knock him off against a tree. 



On the Saturday preceding she had started to sit up with a 

 missionary sister who was expectant. 



I was so excited that I didn't sleep all Saturday night. After 

 the doctor came she began to have a very bad time & he gave 

 her hyoscine — which put her out of her head — i e she didn't 

 know what she was doing & she fought so hard, that I was 

 sore for 2 days afterwards. . . . What did you have to pay 

 for a Md of s g Cossipore sugar? and did they send it V P P? 

 I have to pay 2 Rs a bag in Ferozpur ! 



But more than the ascending price of sugar was affecting 

 the life of the Wherrys in India. Subscription to their schools 

 was falling off, in spite of need for its increase. It impelled 

 the father to write to his daughter-in-law, Marie (March 5, 

 1915): 



I am sending the enclosed [a brief in behalf of the Women's 

 Christian medical college of Ludhiana, whose primary object 

 was the training of Indian Christian women as medical mis- 

 sionaries for India] to ask whether you could not organize a 

 Ladies Auxiliary to aid the medical college in the town where 

 your husband was born. . . . 



MARIE attended to this. 

 Wherry was busy moving his belongings from Cin- 

 cinnati's old hospital downtown to the recently completed 

 new structure — the creation of Christian R Holmes — on the 

 hill. In it, Cincinnati's renascent medical department of the 

 university — a hospital, two clinics and three laboratory setups 



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