The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-17

report simultaneously. using the tele- graph for New Orleans and the cable for Liverpool At present, if the latest advices from China are to be credited, that country Is the great slave country of the world Of a population of 06.000.0o0 there ure slaves to the number of 10000, 900. Ev. cry family of means keeps It's girl slaves. and a mans position is usually gauged by the number he keeps. Al any age from to Is girls are sold, 1 being the age at which most change hands. The girls are supposed to de housework, it being cheaper to buy than to hire. Slaves vary in price; sft is about the average. but much depends on the girls appearance. A good looking girl will fetch SEQ or even $40. kH9 f The determination to do her duty at all costs inspires the society womah oi today as much as 1t did the defenders of the British flag at Trafalgar, says a London writer. She goes into action with a grim resolve to dance and dine las all her friends expect. Though her back is aching, her head splitting and she knows she is grewsomely bored she will herofcally go through her days program. fortified by the con- sciousness of having done, her duty. And one cannot refrain from adding, Poor thiag!"
 Miss Sullivan. the teacher companion of Alabama's wonder. Helen Kellar. is no admirer of modern kindergarten methods. T don't want any more kin dergarten materials she is quoted as saying, T used my little stock of beads. cards and strays at first because I didn't know what else to do. am De- ginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the sup position that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think. Moving about freely among real things. combining impressions for himself. he will have more growth than sitting indoors at a little round table while a sweet-voiced teacher suggests that he build a stone wall out of wooden blocks"
 There are no children in Japan" says a writer. They are dignifed burlesques on the grown-ups. The little girls of the family take care of the babies by having them strapped to their backs. Nearly every maid of or 6 has a baby tied to her back and perhaps that accounts for the bent back and tottering gait of the Japanese woman. Though one never hears a Jap baby cry, if one begins to make a mouth and wrinkle up its funny little face. It's child mother quiets it by raising her body on her toes and heels as fast as she can, and placidity reigns in short order. A man would feel like fool quoting Mother Goose to a Japanese child or trying to amuse 1t as one does our children. As for chuckling one under the chin, that's unthinkable."
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 Through the efforts of Miss Laura A. Gregg, an organizer of the National Suffrage Association. clubs have been organized at Oklahoma City, Guthrie. Blackwell, Hennessy and Jefferson, all towns of Oklahoma Territory.
 Mothers who so condemn hazing hail with interest the fact that the practice is over at West Point. A Washington special says:
 'The hazing of new students at West Point Is a thing of the past. ac- cording to the report of the board of visitors to the United States military academy, made public by the War De- partment today. The reform has the support of the cadets themselves. the report continues. which Is believed to indicate the obliteration of the old practice"
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 Pembroke Lodge which the King of England has given tbe Countess of Dudley for life is one of the most de- lightful of suburban residences in England, situated just inside the bor- ders of the royal park of Richmond, with beautiful private grounds and a private entrance into the park. It has plenty of royal associations was the site of a residence of King Henry VII. land has a mound in the gardens still known as King HenTy's Mount, on which the King is reported to have stood on the day when his consort Queen Ann BoIeyn, was being executed at the Tower of London in order to re-