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no means an attractivc body to look at, 

 though thc Httle g-irls arc not lacking in a 

 certain Hthe lissomeness. 



Mrs. Hoover reports that these Dyaks 

 arc singularly susccptible to nmsic, and 

 that slie often has crowds of them listening 

 to her play a Iittle American organ, and 

 that the faces nianifestly show a response 

 to thc charactcr of the music playcd. Shc 

 declares that shc cau get thcin almost into 

 a dance by playing rag-timc music, and 

 that on the other hand, a grave scriousncss 

 shows itself whcn thc timc of the music is 

 changed. 



The missionaries are earnestly studying 

 thc Dyak tonguc, and a feeling of friend- 

 liness begins to grow bctwccn them and 

 thcir wild neighbors. They expect to see 

 some of these chiklren of the woods 

 brought undcr regular Christian teaching 

 and to add to the mcmbcrship of thc 

 Church new trophies to the power of that 

 Divine Lord. who is able to subdue to him- 

 self the lotticst imagiuations that lift thcm- 

 selves against Him, and yet to bring to His 

 fect thesc poorcst and wildest of the chil- 

 dren of men. 



The work in Borneo should bc strength- 



