Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1909 — Missionary’s Monticello Relatives Receive Presents From Japan. [ARTICLE]

Missionary’s Monticello Relatives Receive Presents From Japan.

Shortly before starting for Japan as a missionary Miss Donna Schlegelmilch, of Monticello, visited in this county. The Monticello Journal gives the following about presents she sent home for Christmas: ‘‘The most unique lot of Christmas presents that have arrived in Monticello thus far, are those that were sent by Miss Donna Schlegelmich to her parents and other relatives. They consist of two sets of hand painted table mats, woven of the thinnest kind of wood shavings and then painted in water colors. These were sent to her mother, pipes to her older brothers, a pen to her father, chop sticks for her cousins, Winfred Dobbins and Lillian Howard, and straw sandals, Japanese stockings and wooden shoes or clogs to her younger brother, Edgar. The most highly prized article of all in the box was a most excellent picture of Donna, herself, taken in Japanese ■costume. She has begun to like the country and her work quite well, and has gained eight pounds in weight. Just now she is studying the language and fitting herself that she may take up her regular work. She is becoming rather adept in the making of the characters of the Japanese written language.” ,