Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1872-01-18
Among the CeIestials.

Among the CeIestials.
A Miss Susan A King, lady who has
accumulated quite fortune by specu-
lating in real estate in New York city,
has made quite a tour through China,
principally in the tea-grOwing districts.
A reporter of the New York World in
terviewed her the other day, and from
that source we learn some interesting
facts about the social life of the Celes-
tials. She says the condition of women in
China is about the same as in this cOun-
try; that the higher classes of Chinese
ladies are taught like ours to control
their voices that it is not polite to
speak above a certain tone. They study
attitudes and effects before their mirrors
| for hours at a time, just like ours, and
they bandage their feet for the same rea-
son that our girls cramp theirs. In fact,
small feet are the ''style," and what
American girl wouldn't walk on her
! head to be even with ''style?" The
ladies of the higher classes are extreme
/ " agreeable in manners. They are much
/ more polite than our ladies in some re-
| spects.
They offer you a cup of tea and some
/ thing to eat. But. just as with US, bus
| mess topics are tabooed, and only $50
cicty" talk allowed in the parlor, the
+ difference being that it is Mr.. Ghetto in
/ stead of Mr.. FitzpOodle, and the size of
/ a lady's foot instead of her panier, wind
/ ing up in both hemispheres with the
/ length of somebody's purse. Education
/ of a certain kind is encouraged anything
/ that is pretty and useless is encouraged
/ for women, just as it is with US, and
/ precisely for the same reason, because
/ men. wealthy men, will not marry ther,,
/ if they have large feet and hands ooo,.s 90
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9th cases the high class lady prides her
self upon her helplessness, upon how
little she knows, and how little she can
do. and the more helpless they are the
better men like them in New York as
we'll as in China.
There are some Of the snartest women
in the world to be found among the mid
dle-class women in China. They have
natural feet, which would prevent them
ever being first wives to men Of any So
Cial position or consideration bat they
do business. can go anywhere they please,
and are nearly always intelligent and
well read. Custom, ssthich is stronger
than law in China, gives married women
the control Of money they earn. The
business women, the cdmpGd0FeSSeS, have
their own money and spend great deal.
The New York women thought they did
great things in forming a little club and
meeting once a month at DelmonicO
Wen. in China the cGmpGd0resses meet
and gamble and dress and dine, just as
men DO here, and enjoy it amazingly
| went to a number of these gatherings,
which take place sometimes at the tea
houses, sometimes at their own houses
and | tell YOU they dress magnifiCently,
and spend money exactly as men do at
their clubs.
One important fact noticed by Miss
King was the entire absence of whisky
and drunkenness in the interior of Chi
ma. It seems that where our boosted
civilization penetrates. whether to the
savagcs of America or to the philosOphi-
cal cclestials, there follows in its train
drunkenness and bestiality In all the
parts of China or Japan that Miss King
visited she saw much drunkenness and
crime among the natives, but when she
got beyond civilization the evils disap-
pearcd. Tea is the universal beverage,
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