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

1t IS amusing to Watcn tneHl: Dut lucy
soon catch on.
"How can we expect much Of the
Chinese women2 They spend their
time shut in their own apartments,
gossiping and reading novels. The
gentlemen who prepare our course in
Chinese literature say we've found
only one Chinese novel, a historical
romance, fit for us to read; and yet
the 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
neae woman of any position or rcspec-
liability never goes out of her home
without special invitation, and many
of them grow old and die without ever
having set foot out Qf their front
door. No thought from the outside
world can get to then. AS [ said,
they read, gossip, cultivate their long
yellow. claw-like finger nails, paint
their faces, lips and eye brows and
dress their hair most elaborately.
That the way they spend their days.
They are jealous of one another, jeal-
Gus Of attention, and envious of any
body who has fine clothes. They are
now getting to wear foreign things aud
arc especially fond of our watches and
trinkets They are crazy over Ameri-
can music boxes. At one place [
visited they had an organ brought up
to hear me play on it, and [ tell you
| was a 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 foot stove
and read those fendish novels. Chi
nesc women never see q man other
than their fathers, or at least that is
what the Chinese themselves say.
You know the general idea prevails
that Chinese girl never sees the face
of her betrothed or he hers until they
are married, but have good reason to
believe that boy aud girl human ma
turc is the same in China as tits here,
and [ think that such things as secret
meetings between lovers arc not un-
heard of in the Celestial Empire.
sThe Chinese character for peace is
the roof of house with woman un-
der it. When | first went there |
built up a beautiful ideal about that
character. / thought it meant that in
every house where woman was es-
tablished there was peace, but Chi
nese man, and very smart one at
thas, set me straight by telling me the 4
character meant that if you wanted to
have 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 step and require two
aIiIahs or nurses to care for them.
We've had girls requiring the attcn-
dance of two ahmahs apply for en-
trance at our 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 our school they have to learn to
dress thcr own hair, thing they vc
never donc before We Go not re-
quire them to unbind their feet, but
in one year seven have voluntarily
unbound their feet as a result Of
Christian teaching. Out Of over II
only 10 are left who have bound feet.
'.One Of our girls married i. Ii.
Yum. whc educated himself ut Van
dcrbilt University in Tennessee. He
is the present minister OF education at
Seoul. the capital Of Corca, and is Il
great favoritc with the king, WHO
chose him with eight other young
princes to go to the coronation OF the
Gar Mr.. and Mrs. Yum have y
lovely Christian home and two chill
,lrcn. He would never have married
her had She not been sent to our
school. He is great friend of Bishop
llca,iricks Of Kansas Cityand of Gen
cra Early Of Virginia. .snother girl
married. Theodore Waung. who graLua-
ted from the University Of Virginia.
lie is the brother-in-law of the Rev.
Mr.. Pott, Dean of ST. John College
in Shanghai, and will become mis-
sionary to his own people. That re-