The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-05
WILLIAM
BARTLING,
Proprietor.
New York Cash Store.

ly of females possessed of normal feet
Even Even IN kwanbtung; where the custom
prevails Pre- IT IS possible Tor one to reside
Tor months without encountering a small
! rooted female. unless especially brought
INTO contact herewith, as in the home of
some medium-class official ''Conspicuous
chiefly by it's absence in higher circles,
1t is emphatically a badge of the middle
| class; though every high-raaked mandarin
USUALLY aims to possess one small-footed
Wlfe or concubine. on the same principle
| DOUBTLESS, that led ancient conquorers to
drag captives at their chariot wheels.
me distortion is not, as commonly sur
ed for the period embraced between the
sixth and tenth years Experience has
taught the fallacy of meddling with bones
ana tissues until they have attained Ger
tain degree of f1rmness and consistency
| II soft, they ara too readily yielding for
Elasticity and do not take kindly to the
| the act Of molding.
The torture. and it is no less, is insti-
| tuted amid relatives and friends especially
hidden for the occasion, and to 10 honor
| to the feast that follows In order to rem
der the flesh amenable to the squeezing
process, the feet are irst submitted to the
and ext plentifuliy busted with powdered
alum to insure complete contraction of the
minute and superficial blood vessels.
| Then the bandage is applied with all the
combined force of two operators, one Of
whom is usually a professional; the child
meantime being extended upon the couch
not scruple to stifle the evidences of her
suffering with the hand unless as soma
times, though rarely, happens, the narcotic
powers of opium have been invoked The
bandage employed is a stout. non-elastic
band, especially woven for such purpose
some two or two and one-half yards long
and two inches wide, and is newly wrung
out of boiling water at the instant of APP
plication.
The four other Qesser) toes are doubled
under and confined to the sole. the inter
Olyad h =fYiT,
powder (alum), when the bandage is given
turn to confine it about the point of the
heel, and then returned over the top of
the foot, and at the point or articulation
of the toes. Powerful traction is now
n ade, expression, kneading, and other
manual aids being called into requisition,
and in a way to crowd the bones of the
anterior portion of the foot backward and
forward upon those of the instep, which
in turn are thus crowded down 10 meet
The heel that, by the same act, has been
drawn downward and forward to occupy
a, position in the same plane with, and per-
pendicular TO, the bones of the leg. Final
ly, the whole is tightly wound iaterally
as high as the calf. every effort being
made to limit motion and blood supply.
Every four or five days during the first
month-after that, once in as many weeks
the bandages are loossned each removal
bringing away considerable quantities of
eAfoliated cuticle and dead tissue, where
by more or less superficial bleeding is pro-
voked. So, too, there is some liberation.
and not infrequently small patches of
gangrene. The hot water bath affords
cursory cleaning. more alum is applied
and packed in the creases and raw sur
faces when the bandages are replaced
with greater severity and rigor. 1t is only
when the deformity assumes a semi-ovoid,
or rather hemi-conoid form, of which the
great toe is the apex, that the operation
is deemed at all satisfactory.
From two TO five years are required to
bring the deformity to the acme of Celes-
tial perfection. During this period the
little one is positively never for an in
slant free from eXcruciatins suffering. and
the anguish which condemns her to spend
in a recumbent position. with legs dang
ling over the hard edge of the eouch.that
circulation may be impeded sufficiently 70
than described. Never by any accident
are the feet permitted to touch the. ground,
and by disuse and lapse of time, the
muscles from the knee down become
fiabby and incapable of responding to the
offo1.ts. of the zuill