From: Doris Brown <tsingtao@eurotraveler.biz>
Date: September 8, 2007 6:03:32 PM EDT
To: Len <len@eurotraveler.biz>
Subject: Re: 1950 Hellen in Minneapolis

Hi Len !   You are good  !  You are  using  PSYCOLOGY  on me  to keep  my  mind  busy !!!!  : > )
I'll try !
Yes  MOMO  was  at  Faber Kranken  House  for  several weeks , I think , but  I do not know  HOW she  did
The mission bought  her an early  ticket  aboard   a  ship (I don't know  which  one )  BUT  MORFAR  WAS NOT ALOUD TO GO ABOARD  WITH HER TO SAY "GOOD BY"
Before leaving Tsingtao she had to go through  custums.(story below)
A  few weeks prior,  dad had sold some stuff for the mission  and some  personal  stuff ( What I do not know)So they would have something  to give to the mission  after all those years
.and he took the  ":Cash in gold"   and  brought it home to momo and said  :"Now what do we do Hellen"???Mom said  :"let me think" and came up with this idea .  She took the gold to Tsingtao ++ a wine colored   dress that she had  made a long time ago which had  brass buttons  on it all the way  down the front
She showed the  dress to the  JEWLER   and showed  him the  gold  , She said :" can  you make me square  gold buttons  to fit this  dress  ( it had square buttens on before)     He looked a while and said   :" Kea   ee  " ofcourse  so she took the dress back home . She had one more peace   of gold ( very  small )  so she said  :"  What can you do with this  peace ( wrong spelling)   She said  ;:"  I like  Lilly of the Valley , can you make  2 long leaves a stem and put  small pearls on the stem ( Like lilly of the Valley) and make it into a  broach about 3 inches long with a curved stem ?   :"Kea -ee "  he said   and she went back to Kiaoksien
On her way out  of China   she of course  went through  Tsingtao  , where  she picked up the  buttons  and  broach !  She cut off all the  brass buttons  and sew on the  gold ,hand made buttons   and wore the  broach !!  ( morfar  was  speechless )
Then came the Customs !!  She showed her Pass port  and the custom official asked  :"  do you have any thing  valueble "   --------- Momo answered  :" Only what I am wearing "  and he  let her through  !!!!!!
She wore that  dress Everyday all the way to Sweden !!!!!  You had a very  brilliant  momo  By the way  I still have that  Lilly of the Valley  broach made of  pure gold      Any time  I give speeches  I wear it so poeople can see it !
In MPLS  she was doing better  and  potty trained  Meimei
I don't remember how long she stayed  BUT  I think  she met up with  mofa in Sweden ?????
Well that was a looooong answere     I love you guys
Mamma doris
PS  She was called Hellen in China  but Hella in Sweden  , therefore  "Hellas Hem Bageri"  my aunts bakery on Stockholms Gatan 38  ,next to momo Idas  apartment , was named after Momo