The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-06

tanning abnormal and disfiguring size,
grew into most horrible custcm m,
through the perverted ideas of beauty
until it became the exception rather
than the rule for women to possess
a pair of natural feet.
remember | agitated in my early
days the question by exposing the alb.
surdity and cruelty of the practice.
and with a view to its gradual discon-
| tinuance | endeayored to persuade my
| friends and relatives to join with me In
! forming league pedging ourselves
| to prohibit the compression of our
daughters feet. But to my dismay |
could not induce any one to become
a member of my proposed assc ciation
lit was therefore, with genuine pleas
Iure and agreeable surprise that some
years ago | learned that an ant-foot
binding society was organized by a few
fol eien ladies', whose object was to
accomplish the same thing that ha1
previously aimed to de. Through the
nstrime ntaty of public meetings.
pamphlets and leaflets, which were
suppated by official proclamations |
and imperial DEGREES, the people in A |
short time have been awakened to the /
folly'and righteousness of the Gust m !
and the appeal has met with re /
spolse that must be gratifying to al
the people who would hold their bod
les as scored Today, one walks the
strets of the larger cities and hardly |,
eva sees a girl of ten or under with /
bond feet. and ladies of middle age
wk Sc eXtremities. have been crampel
TO. score Of years deem it their t
paroitic duty to liberate themselves S
FIRM their bondage. Recently the
work of the committee Of that society
lbs been handed over to a group Of
drominent Chinese gentlemen, who.
it is believed, could better advance
the interests of the society now that
ii las passed its period OF infancy.
Opium, Smoking
Another popular movement. which
has given great JOY to all friends and
well wishers If China has ieen the EFF
forts for the suppression ofopium. N1iC
event in China has giyei more and
better evidence of the hoRful vitality
and the solid moral charcter of our /.
people than the enthusiastic and ener,
getic MANNER In which tle vice of OPS
ium smoking Is beinAahajked. On theI
part cf the government the highest rC
officials in Peking fFe been suspend SI
ed from office for ot curing them lee
selves of the habitlreating sensa. "
lion in man1arInil. is~vrces aHfE N
proclamations haveeen issued com, y
handing an annuatlecrease In the NJ
cultivation of the ppy, the closlhs 10
of public opium der the reglsuratlt
of smokers. and 9th measures which II
will result in the ping out OF the
national curse in eht or ten years. ''
A few wears ago. dunn smoking was P'
no more condemnf than cigars or -
cigarettes, and 1t VI the tashlon tof =
giddy youths to slef and eat win the =
deadly drug, Toda!an opium smoker y
confesses his habiMith shame, ana "
all society regards In as more or less
an outcast And is this healthful n
change In public Onion that will lib I
crate my country rom the chaih OF
the oDium devil Ii the recent clCs4
ing of the opium bns in the import
ant cities, the sttRnts turned out en-
masse, with thciiflags and banners
and musical instiments, celebrating
the occasion as lift were victory III
war, and so earIist were the people a
in their efforts 3 suppress the evl' F
that the very keepers of the dens II
themselves gathered together their vile r
of smoking and made s
huge bonfPe Of them Is
The Daily Paper. +
From ne time when our daily paper p
was frs published In tiny sheet, to n
the present day when it leads ana I
molds public opinion, only forty years 4
nave FldpSth. JOdt iAttilGiai ieA' i'tA'tN''
ed arl kept pace with the awakening
Of tie Chinese Empire. The fathers ,
If Chinese journalism had no realiza'
-ior of the relation between their pro
iession and the progress of human
society. but after the China-Japan War F
when the number of newspapers was
loulled and trebled, the editors were
recruited from highly educated men.
who soon impaired dignity and an
Importance to their ranks. Newspa
,erdon has made rapid strides In the
past Dix or seven years, due to the ex
,ellen standard set by the magazines
,dited and published by Chinese stu
Tents who were being educated In
Japan. and is gradually approaching
manhood.
Nha does this awakening of China
mean 10 the world? To my mind, it :
means in the first place, true and
astinf peace in the Far East The
China becomes strong enugh
lffer her awakening to maintain her
sovereign rights and protect herself
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