, 1889-03-28

forua on the stump OF the natural foot.
There is woman here in Canton whose
foot ia 80 small that the part which goes
into the shoe 10 not bigger around than
trade dollar. and the compressed foot is
sorrSs t"Sr def0r%iSsy sDS The had ,SSs SSs psSG III,
me with disgust. The leg from
the knee to the foot 10 like u pipe.stem,
The beauty Of the ballet girls calf is miss.
ing, and the skin seems to be wrapped
around the shin. 1t is cracked and rough,
and the foot itself seems to be broken in
two in the middle The instep was dou bled
over upon the heel and the four small toes
we're wrapped around under the sole ofthe
foot. The big toe and u part of these
four were all that went into the shoe. and
the Chinese ladies, in reality. walk on
in the middle Of the shoe, like the French
heel, and we get French heels and rouge
from China The compression of the feet
Ia said to date back to an empress who
had club toot, and who made the other
ladies' of the court bind up their feet until
IL became the fashionable thing. Another
explain alton il that it was adopted to keep
Chinese women from RaddiDg, and If 30,
1t succeeds. Ali Chinese women, except
the Manchus or tartars, now bind their
feet, and 1t is Il very low peasant who has
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is with bandages, which are put
on the foot when the child 10 five
years old, They are wrapped 80 tightly
that the toes are forced into the tiesh, that
the instrp il force up so that the heel and
the big toe forms a perfect bow, and 30
that the flesh often breaks at the instep,
and the bones sometimes protrude. This
binding is kept up through life and swell
ling takes place whenever the bandages
are removed. The women must be in con-
tinual pain, and in the winter these com.
Mary Niles. of the hospital here, told me
yesterday Of the case Of women in the
country near Canton. Her feet became
frozen aud slouRhed off. She cam. into
Canton on the stumps with her feet IN
her hand brought them to the hospital
and asked the doctors TO sew them On
again. A cast of one of these feet is now
shown at this hospital, which is larger
than any in America, and which, since Its
foundation a halfcentury ago, has treated
1000, 900 patients.
CHINESE BILLS OF FARE.
Canton is of about the size of Paris or
New York, and it is one of the best places
to study Chinese gastronomy. The res
| taurants there have birds nest soup at 81
plate, and bought rat which was
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! cents | doubt not the price was five times
too high, for the rat was the smallest on
the string which hung in the butcher
shop. 1t lies before me as | write. 1T
measures foot from nose to tail, and 1T
looks little like piece of dried pork
1t has been skinned even to the tail. Its
legs are cut of and the liver and heart are
pressed inside of it. Ii smells like salt
meat and it looks as though 1T would make
the center of good sandwich. | propose
to send it to the Gridiron or Glover club
this same shop saw cooked cats, and
visited yesterday, u cat and
dog meat restaurant. Carcaeses
of small dogs which looked
not unlike clean sucking pigs hung from
hooks about low dark room, ana these,
in most instances had tuft OF hair left on
the tip of the tail. This hair was black,
for black dogs meat is worth more than
that of the yellow dog and black cats
flesh costs here ten cents plate. Just be-
low these dogs, and next to the street,
we're two clay bowls flied with burning
charcoal, and upon these was stewing the
flesh of dogs and cats. In little cages on
the floor were number Of live cats ready
to be killed and cooked to order, and saw
this afternoon a peddler showing cat to
woman In one of the narrow streets of
Canton. The woman was examining he
cats teeth in order to know its age, and
she felt of its body as though it were
rabbit. There we're about IA dozen China
men dining in this dog and cat restaurant,
and good dinner costs on an average l5
cents.
The Chinese, however. have as good
markets as you will find in the world.
have never seen a greater variety of fruits
and vegetables anywhere than In Peking,
Shanghai and Canton. The mutton of the
north is finer than that of England, and
the game is OF the choicest. Fish are al
ways sold alive, and you sec tubs of living
fish at every Cantonese market stand.
The market man takes the squirmlng fish
from the water and cleans it while it
gasps. He holds its wriggling tail and
cuts slices of quivefing flesh from its
sides to sell, and he is crue! here az every
where. All kinds of dried fish are
sold and among the common articles of
food are dried ducks pressed and salted
These hang up everywhere, and | see
smoked Sleeps heads, dried oysters
strung on strings and dried clans. The
Chinese fruits are especially fine, and they
have oranges, bananas, plums, pears and
persimmons which would make your
mouth water. Canton sends thousands of
| dollars of sweetmeats to America yearly,
| and their preserved ginger is sought for
by the Rastronomes of the world. The
Chinese themselves are great eaters. Cook
shops for the rich and Door are fonnd
everyw here, and big Chinese dinner
sometimes has 100 courses. Mr. DENLY,
the American minister at Pekin, when re-
ceived by the viceroy pf Canton, was given
n dinner of twenty.six courses, and he
smacks his lips when he discourses upon
the delicacy of sharks fins and birds nest
soup.