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‘Wanamaker’s or Gimbel’s. Yes, the
prices are familiar, too, that is when
they aren't a little higher.
Now we turn onto the bike path
down the wide Avenue of America.
This will be a beautiful ride in the
summer when the trees that line the
paths are in leaf. Right here is where
the handsome Young policeman
stopped ‘us one day for going the
wrong way. ‘You're Americans? Oh
well, then, you can do anything you
want,” he laughed. We didn’t do it
again. Soon we're at the Institute
de Medecine Tropicale Prince Leo-
pold, a group of fine large buildings
equipped for research and fnstruc-
tion, and including an out-patient
clinic, I think that if I were a Bel-
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gian I would be prouder of this
institute than of almost-anything in
the country. The professors have all
spent many years in Congo land are
recognized as top men in their fields.
There's M. Dubois for Pathology
(the study of the diseases). He's the
world’s foremost leprosy expert. He
spent several years in the States
and likes to make gentle little jokes
about Americans and use the Eng-
lish names for diseases. M. Wanson
teaches us all about worms; M. Van-
Riel, about hygiene. M. Mattlet leads
us a merry chase keeping up with
his drawings and descriptions of
one-celled animals. Now and then
he tells a joke and has us laughing
almost as much at his chuckle as
at what he says. Our favorite is the
entomologist, M. [Schouteden, with
his beautiful white goatee and jolly
twinkling eyes. He tells us that for
the exam he likes to attach wings to
the wrong insects to see if we really
know our stuff. We suspect he’s kid-
ding, but we will surely want to be
on our toes when we go for his
exam, as for all of them.
Don’t be misled by the jokes and
twinkles. The courses are tough. In
four months enough material is
covered to fill up a year in an
American college with our more per-
‘sonalized teaching methods. The ex-
aminations are onal, in French of
course, In addition to the lectures,
we have three laboratory assistants
‘who help us see, draw and identify
all the strange animals we've been.
hearing about in iclass.
M. Anciaux, general secretary of
the Institute, gives ‘us lectures on
the people and customs of the ICon-
go. His love for the Congo sticks
out all over; he spent the greater
part of his life there and his child-
ren land grandchildren were born
there. He can wax lyrical in describ-
ing the country, and what he says
about the people shows real under-
standing and sympathy—ithe Congo
must love him too. While we're
talking about teachers I must men-
tion M. VamDyck, who taught our
brief French course wlfter we came
to Antwerp in January. His gentle-
ness and patience were a lesson to
me: he could sit and listen to us
struggling through our speeches
when, it seemed remarkable that he
could understand a word; then he
would say, “That was very good;
only, here are a few points to which
you should pay attention...”
Sometimes we take our lunches
to school; then we have an hour
and a half in which to explore the
oldest part of town with its marrow
winding streets above which soars
the marvelous tower of the Cathe-
| dral, On almost every corner there
is a niche containing a statue of
Mary and phe Christ (Child. Part of
the section mear the Cathedral is
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Or we may head for one of our
favorite spots, the docks, where we
walk along the promenade and
watch the ships coming and going
from all over the world. There's a
‘Swedish ship just in from California
with crates and crates of oranges;
farther on a little American freigh-
ter is being loaded up with Belgian
mirrors. In the midst of this modern
commerce stands a fascinating old
turreted castle where used to live
a giant who chopped off the hands
of merchant ship captains who re-
fused to pay him the tribute in salt
which he expected. Fortunately a
stalwart hero came along and chop-
ped off not only the hand but the
head of the giant. You ican see the
story depicted by a huge statue in
Grand’ Place.
We can go back by the canal and
see the barges of all shapes and
sizes, many of them with a washing
hanging out, for the barge man and
his family live in the neat little lace-
curtained cabin at one end. At noon
time things are very quiet, for Bel-
gium relaxes over its dinner. Then
the bustle starts again and we must
get back to school.
At last the day is over and we
are sitting down to one of the lus-
cious meals prepared by Madame
Kerriman and her ifriend Olasine.
Afterwards we have a Bible reading,
prayer and some hymns, a different
gir] taking charge each evening in
her turn. Then the gang invades the
kitchen, the dishes are done before
you can say ‘“‘N’est-ce pas” and we
retire behind a pile of books to try
to unravel the mysteries of the life
cycle of Fasciola hepatica (a worm,
not a flower that blooms in the
Spring) or Trypanosoma gambiense,
a pretty little parasite transmitted
by (Glossina palpalis (tse-tse to you.)
It is hard to remember all the
hundreds of details that make up the
picture of daily life, because they
soon become a part of your life too.
For instance—door handles aren't
round, they are like those in hos-
pitals that can be conveniently
opened with the elbow; heavy shut-
ters are rolled down over the ground
floor windows (usually very lange)
at sundown. Everybody carries brief-
cases, from bricklayers (he has his
lunch in it) to professors; except for
this common factor there is no mis-
taking a “worker” for a member of
the middle or upper class, and
people are more conscious of such
distinctions than we are at home.
I can count on the fingers of one
hand the number of noticeably in-
toxicated men I've seen here; people
like a glass of wine with a meal, a
bit of wine or beer in a sidewalk
cafe, whiskey practically never.
‘“Frite” wagons (French fries) take
the place of our popcorn stands. Few
people have refrigerators—the cool
cellar serves the purpose; water is
heated by what the English call
“geysers”: the gas lights up when
you turn the faucet on and heats
the water as it flows through the
pipe; central heating (steam or hot
water) is common, but sometimes
must be supplemented by a little
coal stove; the toilet is always in a
room separate from the washbowl
and tub. Belgian kitchens don't
look like mds from the Saturday
Evening Post (a very popular maga-
zine here) but excellent meals come
out of them; a Hollywood figure is
not one of the standards of beauty
—it’s better to look as if you've had
enough to eat. Belgian children and
young people have very fair com-
plexions, even with dark hair, and
the brightest rosiest cheeks I've
seen,
People live comfortably but don’t
spend a lot of money on gadgets.
They work very hard for what they
get, save and spend prudently. One
of the first startling things I saw
when I arrived in Brussells was a
furniture store with a big sign: “Cre-
dit a I"Americain.” That’s one of the
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recent ideas the sensible, conserva-
tive middle class doesn’t thank us
for.
And while we're on the subject,
would you Americans (others please
excuse the digression) like to see a
picture of yourself taken from this
side of the ocean? Well, you're an
dnbelievably huge country consist-
ing mainly of New York City. The
typical American chews gum in one
side of his or her mouth and talks
out of the other, loudly and nasally,
all about how everything at home
is the biggest in the world. He
thinks of nothing but rushing
around making dollars, and when he
makes them he thinks of nothing
but spending them or giving them
away, usually too much or too little
or to the wrong people. He's ignor-
ant about history, geography and
most other items of culture. But at
least he’s fanatical about personal
cleanliness, Before you get mad—
Americans are always ready for a
good laugh on themselves and are
astoundingly frank about their own
faults. Belgians are inclined to be
more well informed and sympathetic
than other Europeans, partly per-
haps because of our comparative
economic equality which eliminates
the important factor of jealousy.
Those who have had missionaries in
their homes have learmed a lot of
new things and change some ideas.
But we're missionaries for Christ,
not for the UIS!A., though it's some-
tinles hard to convince people that
the government isn’t helping us. Bel-
gium does not have a state church,
unlike most European countries—
please note that there are as many
Protestant state churches as 'Cath-
olic, and that their records are not
all pretty either. But the govern-
ment does subsidize various church
activities, including Protestant hos-
pitals and schools in ‘Congo. The
population is predominantly Roman
Catholic, at least nominally, and it
is a challenge to be a Protestant.
The Protestant churches very much
need our prayers and encourage-
ment.
As for the rest of Belgium and its
beautiful old churches land chat-
eaux, its fine works of art (Memling,
the VanEycks, Rubens), lovely car-
illon towers—I've described most of
them as well as my trips to other
countries in other personal and
family letters. T hope to take more
trips before I leave and will try to
sum up my imprression of the other
countries in a later letter.
For all your Christmas cards and
letters, many thanks. T love to hear
from all of you, even though I can’t
answer each one personally. I hope
that all of you, individually and in.
church groups—are praying for me
in my studies and for the work
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in Congo to which I am so eager to
be going. And I pray for all of you
a deep experience of Christ in your
lives and the real happiness of ser-
ving Him, whatever your work may
Very sincerely
Dorothy R. Gilbert
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