Birmingham age-herald., 1895-07-09
BIRMINGHAM AGE-HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY09, 1895

of the main growth when the first reached it's harvest. As compared with Japan, one feature of every view was
 strikingly in favor of the larger coun-
 try. The dress and behavior of the Chi
 nese will not offend Europeans
 The women of central China are not
 merely most modest, they are as com pletely dressed as any women l have
 ever seen. They are covered from neck
 to heels in a costume composed of a jacket and trousers. As MT. Weldon says Their complete freedom of move
 ment is calculated to produce the most perfect nation, physically. It is God s providence that this menace to the safe
 ty of the world is offset by their innn- tritous food and their fondness for the crippling of wemens feet.e In Japan
 nakedness is what startles the new conner on all sides. In China the alto- gether' that Trilby posed for is pro- duct that I saw only in. the cases of less than half a dozen children l am told that in the country one sees women half
 barred above the waist when the sun shines tropically, but I cannot prove that. l saw one farmer girl with only her padlike frOntlet of cotton on above
 her trousers. but l cannot announce a national custom upon that slender basis. On the other hand. l saw the women at every sort of labor. squatted down upon the rivers edge. climbing like boys, wrestling. frolickinS, rowing boats with their feet, wading streams, yet never having occasion to regard that jealous
 modesty which is safeguarded in their dress and in their souls from Infancy on- ward. l never-eXcept in two instances among thousands-raised my eyes to have them meet those of woman that she
 did not cast hers down, or turn and run indoors as fast as her golden lilies - goats feet, Weldon calls them--Would carry her. Even in the night resorts of the gentlemen, where the DeJeweled sing-song girls ply their service Of song
 and attendance during the Formal din ners of men of means, l never saw the suggestion of improper behavior on the
 mems or the women's parts. To be sure these women made bold to rub their hands softly against my hair twhere keep what have in the back to see now our shorn hair feels. And they fingered
 my collar and cuffs, and gently touched
 my plank-like shirt front, and giggied
 just as little children do under similar circumstances at home.
 So like little children were they that l
 could not bear to think them different Tn
 any respect-there In that garden where baby girls only fetched a dollar in the
 market. until the price rose recently in Shanghai, because of the employment or
 girls in the silk flature factories. Boys
 are different. of course. Just as l was leaving China an old man who wanted to adopt a son picked out a likely shaver of 4 wears old and set his heart on having | him The fool of a mother did not see | that the true price the old man offered l was @ comfortable home and the heir l dom of his property. She only saw how much the old man wanted her boy. She
 would not sell him for less than $So | Therefore, the prudent old fellow was | obliged to stihe his budding affection and | look for a cheaper child He got chubby little urchin for $60, which was | his limit.
 
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