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1st. Sunday. Bright. Hot mid-day.
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2nd. Monday. Bright. Cool―breezy.
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3rd. Tuesday. Beautiful. Hot mid-day.
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4th. Wednesday. A vigorous shower early morning. Cool.
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Seoul home. Another shower between 4 and 5 p.m.
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A farewell dinner at 明月館 in honor of Dr. 吳兢善 between 6:30 and 9 p.m. Quite a representative gathering of over 60 persons.
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5th. Thursday. Beautiful. Hot. mid-day.
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6th. Friday. Beautiful.
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7th. Saturday. Beautiful. Hot mid-day.
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8th. Sunday. Beautiful. Hot mid-day.
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9th. Monday. Beautiful. Warm.
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10th. Tuesday. Beautiful. Very warm.
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Seoul home. Mother returned from Song Do with a little fever.
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11th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Warm.
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12th. Thursday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. At 9 a.m. the 朝鮮博覽會 or Korean exposition was formally opened.
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13th. Friday. Beautiful. Warm.
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14th. Saturday. Rain between 6:30 and 9 a.m. Cool.
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Seoul home. At 2 p.m. the funeral service for late Frank Brockman held in the Gymnasium of the Central Y. It was a touching occasion to me who lost in the death of F.B., a true friend. His ashes buried in a plot just above the graves of his mother and little daughter(Barbara) .
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15th. Sunday. Bright. Warm.
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16th. Monday. Bright. Warm.
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17th. Tuesday. Beautiful. Warm.
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18th. Wednesday. Rain all day. Cool.
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Seoul home. This rain out of season only reminds one of the awful drought of August.
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19th. Thursday. Pale―Sun. Cool.
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20th. Friday. Beautiful. Pleasant.
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21st. Saturday. Beautiful. Warm.
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22nd. Sunday. Bright. Warm.
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Left Seoul 7:30 a.m. for 溫陽 with 光善 and 致昌 to pay our respect to father's grave. Reached the 溫陽 11:10 a.m. Left 溫泉 3:20 p.m. reaching Seoul 6:30 p.m.
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23rd. Monday. Bright. Almost hot.
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Seoul home. Spent the whole p.m. with family at the Exposition. Children enjoyed the Circus.
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Visitors from the villages in groups of 20 to 50 persons are driven through the buildings pushing and being pushed by crowds of men and women and of children in such a hurry that one wonders what they could see? The whole show is a show of the Japanese, by the Japanese and for the Japanese. Its object to advertize Korea―its resources and attractions―to the Japanese to induce them to come over and to help themselves. The poor Koreans are made to foot the bills for running the Exhibition. Coming between two famine years with the price of rice unhulled at 6 sen per "mal", the Koreans of the provinces can't afford to bear this squeeze―dry policy. With the autumn taxes coming no sooner than this Exposition closes, the Japanese land grabbers and usurious money lenders will grow fat to the bursting point.
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The Korean papers are significantly silent about the Exhibition. Except children and thoughtless women, every thinking Korean realizes that the Exhibition is just one more illustration of the heartless Japanese policy of "Three Exes."
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24th. Tuesday. Bright. Steamy.
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25th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Cool―going to rain.
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26th. Thursday. Pretty. Warm.
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27th. Friday. Beautiful. Warm.
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28th. Saturday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. The first day of 씨름大會 at the 徽文 ground, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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29th. Sunday. Beautiful. Warm.
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Seoul home. The last day of the 씨름大會. From 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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30th. Monday. Pretty Warm.
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Seoul home. Read through the German war book "All Quiet on the Western Front". The book is praised by the English press to be the best war book yet out. War is presented in this terrible book in all its naked ugliness strip of all its tinsel glories. Yet, why did God Almighty so order things that no improvement, no progress, no betterment in physical, moral, intellectual and spiritual life of man can be secured except through struggle fight viz: War? Show me a holy man who has reached a high mark of sanctity without constant fight against and with evils within and without him. Show me a nation that has achieved any degree of greatness, that has preserved its very existence without being war-like.
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