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1st. Tuesday. Lovely. Mild.
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Seoul home. 3 p.m. went to 淸凉寺 with Dr. Cynn, Mr. Koo and Miss Pak I.D. for supper. Returned home about 7.
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2nd. Wednesday. Pale sun. Mild.
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3rd. Thursday. Bright and cold.
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4th. Friday. Bright. Cold.
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5th. Saturday. Bright―Cold.
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Seoul home. Entertained Mr. 徐□禧 and 玄東元 to a sunkiyaki supper at 百合園. Mr. 徐 had just returned from a trip to Manchuria visiting the Korean refugees at different points on the So. Manchurian Rail-road.
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6th. Sunday. Cloudy. Mild.
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7th. Monday. Cloud and sun. Mild.
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Seoul home. Rain between 12 and 4 last night.
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8th. Tuesday. Misty rain all day.
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9th. Wednesday. Rain last night and this a.m.
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Seoul home. Such a mild weather―then rain for tow days. Sun afternoon.
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Read a letter from Helen. She says "But now that the excitement of travel and uncertainty are over and we are at the journey's end, I am conscious that New York is like all other places with its problems―its disadvantages we have to settle down, and the impulse is to go and go often and anywhere―just so its on the move!" The demon of restlessness―the patron demon of America―is in this girl all right. She seems to think and act, too, that excitement is happiness. Whatever happiness means―for no two person's definition of happiness is the same―it must have peace or tranquility of the mind. This peace may be the fruit of resignation to, and trust in, predestination or Providence, or of the consciousness that one is doing his best for the attainment of a definite and worthy end. Helen has neither contentment nor a definite end of life. She loves or follows excitement for its own sake. I wouldn't be surprised if her next letter announces that she is going somewhere again a single woman aimless, moneyless and friend-less.
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10th. Thursday. Cloud and sun. Mild.
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11th. Friday. Cloud―Mild.―but colder.
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12th. Saturday. Bright. Very cold.
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Seoul home. The 民政黨 Cabinet of Tokyo resigning, the 政友黨 Cabinet formed with Mr. Inukai. 犬見 for Prime Minister. A ban is again to be placed on gold export―the rise of price of staple articles predicted.
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13th. Sunday. Lovely. Very cold 12˚ below zero.
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Seoul home. Mailed a letter to Helen.
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14th. Monday. Very cold. 14˚ below zero early a.m.
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Seoul home. Real snow first time in this winter. Snow all the morning and some in the afternoon.
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15th. Tuesday. Dark. Mild a.m. Sun a.m.
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Seoul home. The Central Council of the Korea Meth. Church met in the C.L.S Board-room from 10 a.m.
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16th. Wednesday. Lovely―Cold.
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Seoul home. Allen who came to Seoul last night tells me that in Choong Chung Nam Do each 郡 or District is being compelled, under the name of contribution to raise ￥1,020.00, ￥500.00 for the Relief Fund for the Korean refugees in Manchuria, ￥500.00 for the Ito Memorial temple and ￥20.00 for the benefit of the Japanese soldiers in Manchuria. Under one pretext or another the Koreans are fleeced to the skin.
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17th. Thursday. Cloud. Began Snowing 2 p.m.
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Seoul home. Stopped snowing about 3 p.m. Again a little snow in the night.
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明善 the second son of cousin No. 1 tells me that ￥5,000.00 is now needed to get his father released on bond(保放) and that he hopes I would bear part of the burden. Cousin No. 1 doesn't deserve any pity or help. He is a heartless cheat and a shameless impostor. His sufferings! Why, I understand he is in the sick ward furnished with a stove and a bed. He is supplied with hot soup three times a day―in short he is treated like a prince compared to other prisoners. I spent 3 full years in prison with nothing a thin Japanese mat on a hard floor. Stove! In the depth of winters I was glad to smell afar the smoke that issued from the stoves in the jail keeper's offices. All that for the ridiculous charge that I attempted to murder then Governor Genl.! To see cousins No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, No. 5 and two she-cousins whine about the so called sufferings of cousin No. 1 makes me cynical. Suppose he does suffer a little. Why shouldn't he suffer some who has made so many men and women suffer by his fraud and lies. But yes, but―I must do something to help his innocent children and his overburdened brother cousin No. 2.
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18th. Friday. Lovely―Cold.
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19th. Saturday. Very cold―Cloudy a.m.
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I told cousin No. 2 that I would be responsible for ￥1,200.00 in case cousin No. 1's debts has to be paid to get his release. Cousin Chiso seemed to be pleasing.
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7 p.m. Helen Kim returned from America the first woman Ph. D. Korea has ever produced. She is certainly a brainy little girl.
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20th. Sunday. Chilly a.m.
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21st. Monday. Sunshine. Miler.
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22nd. Tuesday. Sun. Cold.
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Seoul home. To Song Do per the gasoline car 7:34 a.m. Found it much colder in Song Do than in Seoul. Returned to Seoul by 1:48 p.m. train.
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23rd. Wednesday. Cloud―Mild.
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Seoul home. Called on Mr. 崔麟, the head of the progressive wing of the Heavenly Way Sect just to show him that I had declined to see him yesterday morning not because I had anything against him but because I had to go to Song Do by the early train. Mr. Choi is suspected to be working for the home-rule status of Korea. He is reviled and shunned on that account by patriots who accuse him of being pro-Japanese! I found him a very intelligent and clear headed man.
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24th. Thursday. Cloudy. Mild.
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25th. Friday. Lovely―Cold.
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26th. Saturday. Cloudy. Mild.
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27th. Sunday. Cloud a.m. Mild.
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Seoul home. A fleeting sunshine for a few minutes in the afternoon. With 璋善 and 琦善 went to the zoo garden to see them skate. The weather is mild that the ice on the pond presented a very uneven surface having been ploughed by hundreds of skates. Returned home half past 6, after taking a sukiyaki supper at 百合園. The boys enjoyed the skating and the supper.
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Rain real hard. Rain form about 6.
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28th. Monday. Cloud. Chilly. Sun awhile p.m.
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Seoul home. Rain most of last night converting the streets into veritable mud pools.
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29th. Tuesday. Sunshine most of the day. Cold.
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30th. Wednesday. Sunshine. Cold.
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31st. Thursday. Pale sun. Mild.
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All is well that ends well. Praise God from whom all blessing flow!
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