The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-03-02

it is amusing to watch them, but they
500 catch on.
How can We expect much Of the
Chinese women2 They spend their
time shut in their own apartments,
gossipiug aud reading novels. The
gentlemen who prepare our course in
Chinese literature say we've found
only one Chinese novel, . historical
romance, fit for us to read; and yet
che Chinese women live on Chinese
fiction. They talk with their SER
wants, smoke water pipes, and most Of
them get drunk on hot wine. A Chi
nese woman of any position or rcspec-
liability never goes out of her home
without u special invitation, and many
of them grow old and die without ever
having set foot cut Of their front
door. No thought from the outside
world can get to them. AS | said,
s!:ey read, gossip, cultivate their long
yellow, claw-likc finger nails, paint
their faces, lips and eye brows and
dress their hair most deliberately.
That's the way they spend their days.
They are jealous of one another, jcal-
Gus of attention, and cnvious of any
body who has fine clothes. They are
now getting to wear foreign things and
arc especially fond Of our watches and
trinkcts. They are crazy over Ameri-
can music boxes. At one place l
visited they had an organ brought up
to hear me play on it, and | tell you
l was Il great show to them. They
have no carpets in their houses and
neither do they have fires. When it
is cold the women sit up in fur-lined
garments from morning until night
with their tiny feet on a foot stove
and read those Gcndish novels. Chi
nesc women never see u man other
than their fathers. or at least that is
what the Chinese themselves say.
You know the general idea prevails
that a Chinese girl never sees the face
Of her botrothcd or he hers until they
are married, but l have good reason to
believe that boy and girl human ma
turc is the same in China as tits here,
and | think that such things as secret
meetings between lovers are not un-
heard Of in the Celestial Empire.
ttTbn Eb,uos, oLo,,o. e.. =.
the roof Of q house with Il woman un-
der it. When l first went there |
built up u beautiful ideal about that
character. ! thought it meant that in
every house where Il woman was cs-
tablishcd there was peace, but a Chi
nese man, and a very smart one ut
that, set me straight by telling me the
character meant that if you wanted to
nave peace you must keep the women
in the house. That's the real secret
of foot binding in China. 1t was not
started for the sake of beauty, but to
keep the women at home. Oh, the
terrors Of foot binding! I've often
seen children ten years old who have
never walked 4 step and require two
ahmahs Or nurses TO :;are for them.
We've had girls requiring the attcn-
dance of two ahmahs apply for en-
trance at cur school, but we could not
take the poor little things. AS bad
as foot binding is, there is something
worse in China, and that is the way
in which the men and women arc
separated.
When the girls who board with us
enter orr school they have to learn to
dress their own hair, u thing they've
never done before. We do not re-
quire them to unbind their feet, but
in IL year seven have voluntarily
unbound their feet as a result of
Christian teaching. Out of ever ~
only 10 arc left who have bound feet.
Zone Of our girls married r. II.
Yum, who educated himself at Van
dcrbilt University ia Tennessee. He
10 VIC PtCsCIu miuiStCI VI EDUCATION AT
Seoul. the capital of Corca, and is a
great favoritc with the king, WHO
chose him with eight other young
princes 20 so to the coronation of the
Gar. Mr.. and Mrs. Yum have .
lovely Christian home and two chill
dren. He would never have married
school. He is agroat friend of Bishop
Hendricks of Kansas City and of Gen
cral Early of Virginia. Another girl
married Theodore Waung, whogradua-
ted from the University Of Virginia.
He is the brothcr-in-law of the Rev.
Mr.. Pott, Dean Of St. Johns College
in Shanghai, and will. become a mis-
sionary to his own people,. That re-
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