Evening star., 1900-08-10

But one soon finds that the supposed Young
women are all young men with their hair
parted in the middle. braid down their
backs and long white gown that reaches
to Their feet. Their hair shows that they
are not yet married. When that important
event occurs, the part in the middle disap-
pears the braid is done up in a topknot,
and the youth proclams to all the world
by the same topknot that he has committed
matrimony.
When the Japanese began to make their
power felt in Corea they attempted all
sorts of reforms, which were not seriously
resented by the people. Even the murder
throw OF the government did not excite
them. But when the Japanese ordered the
topknots to be cut off there was a tre-
mendous excitement 1t was resented as an
awfui outrage. Many preferred death to its
loss, and at length the reformers had to
give 1t up and leave, to the Coreans their
beloved topknots. This was case where
topknots did not come down.
AS we made our way to the city. con-
t:nued DIR. Clark, funeral procession with
the mourners in sack cloth, passed us. The
gorgeous red hearse was preceded by a
number of children carrying red banners.
over doorway we saw a rope tied, from
which were suspended wisps of straw and
pieces OF charcoal, and seaweed, which an
ncunced to the public that boy has been
born in that happy household within a
week. If the newcomer were a girl the
charcoal and the seaweed would be left off
the line.
Men and donkeys and cows bearing i'm
mense loads of brushwood crowded around
use in the street. "Jggie" men, bearing
great piles of goods that tower way above
their heads. disputed the narrow street with
vicious little Corean ponies. and every
where is the tide of white-robed humanity
thronging the highways.
Old Walled City.
Through these interesting scenes we
passed, the bright blue bay of Fusan on
one side the Ia POod y,,oupto{r ,a,l,, ~, ~
other. until we came to the old walled city
of Fusan. the wall now in sad state of
dilapidation. and the city like the rest of
Corea, In decay and degradation because
of long succession Of unjust and ra-
pacious rulers.
Here near the wall live the Fusan ladies'.
as they are universally known in all the
regton-three noble Australian missionaries,
Miss Menzies, Miss Moore and Miss Brown
who hold the fort in Fusan against all the
forces of heathenism. Two of these ladies
were at the japanese Christian Endeavor
convention in Kobe. and all OF them, II 1
am not mistaken, were Endeavorers in the
good colony Of Victoria before they came to
Corea. The charter members Of this first
san ladies have adopted and are making
into earnest Christian women. They are
bright. pretty girls, and are material for
junior society. for, as Is most appropriate.
Christian Endeavor in Corea starts with
the juniors.
I look for large accessions to the ranks Of
Christian Endeavor in Corea soon for the
churches of the Presbyterian mission are
all founded on the idea of self-support.
which Is also the root idea Of Christian
Endeavor. Mrs. Irwin OF the American
Presbyterian mission. whose husband is the
beloved physician OF all this part Of Corea
and who treats 10000 patients every year,
will soon start another society. among the
girls Of her school. The doctor himself
assured me that there will soon be a num-
Der Of other societies in Fusan. and be-
ifeve the time may not be far distant when
there will be Fusan local union Of Chris
Corean Endeavorers, which perhaps will
meet In beautiful Fusan, the birthplace of
Christian Endeavor In the great peninsula