Complete rest, however, was an impossibility to Dr. Stone, even during her convalescence, so long as there was any service she could render.  Two weeks after her arrival Miss Hughes wrote Dr. Danforth that “our little doctor” was accompanying her to several of the meetings which she was addressing, and was “making friends right and left for her work.”  Boxes of instruments, pillows, and spreads for the hospital beds, a baby organ for the hospital, the support of a nurse, and other useful things were being promised by these new friends.  “Her smiling face, with no word from her even, is a wonderful revelation to people who judge the Chinese by the putty-faced laundrymen, the only specimen of China they have ever seen,” said Miss Hughes.  Dr. Stone spent the month of May in New York, attending lectures and clinics in the hospitals there.  As she was starting for Chicago at the end of May, she wrote Dr. Danforth: 

“Do you think I shall be able to see much clinic in two weeks?  That is the only time allotted me, and my only hope is that you will be the ‘master of the situation,’ and help me to spend every minute to the best advantage....  I have attended as much clinic as I possibly could this month, but it is awfully hard to get around in New York.  Do you suppose I would be able to go directly to Wesley Hospital Monday, and do you think Dr. J——­ would have the time and the interest to show me the inside methods of the hospital?  He wrote me a most kind letter and invited me to do so....  Two weeks will mean a lot if I can be right in the inside track of things.  I want some time on the eye and ear work, besides a few clinics on dermatology.  I know two weeks will not be enough for the much I want to see and know, but since it is the only time I am to have, I know you will help me to make the most of it.”

Thus did the indefatigable little doctor take the “much-needed rest” of which her friends in China had written.  That she did make the most of her two weeks is testified to by Mrs. Danforth, who visited many of the hospitals with her, and who says:  “In visiting the hospitals she never missed a thing.  She saw everything—­nothing escaped her notice, not even the laundries.  She was always keenly alert for every idea that would improve her hospital.”

On her way back to the East, Dr. Stone stopped at Ann Arbor, for she was eager to revisit her “dear old campus,” and the faculty under whom she had taken her medical work.  “We had a lovely time in Ann Arbor,” she said in writing to a friend.  “Dr. Breakey, in whose home we stayed, arranged a meeting, or reception, where I saw most of my old professors.  Then in the parsonage we met all the ladies of our church.  Next day I had a meeting in the church.”