80 Malaysia. 



Singapore where a thorough culture is fmd- 

 ing increasing favor, and the time is not 

 remote when the training of thc girls to 

 an inteHigcnt li f c will be as sinccrely under- 

 taken by their fatliers as tlie preparation 

 of the boys. 



Miss Blackmore began with one little 

 maiden in thc house, "Mahlee," who is now 

 the happy mother of several little ones who 

 are bcing educated to a high grade of 

 Christian Hving. From house to housc the 

 missiouary wcut and, employing asststants 

 from the English Church of which Mr. 

 Oldham was pastor, she opened schools at 

 several points, and organizcd a regular vis- 

 itation of many honies, and so in one way 

 or anothcr sought the uplift and evangeli- 

 zation of the womcn and girls of the city. 

 In this work Salomc Fox and other assist- 

 ants show markcd ability. The Minnesota 

 women have provided a Deaconess Homc 

 which, located on Mt. Sophia, crowns that 

 beautiful little htll aud looks far and wide 

 over the city and across the Straits. Here 

 some sixty girls nnd a happy home, whcre 

 they are bemg prepared for all the avoca- 

 tious of comparatively educated Christian 



