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The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-10-01

out there
tie the pro-
astant min
he Mormon
.ppeared for
a preacher.
Proverbs:
away wrath,
Up anger"
n was a plea
politeness in
lowing of the
the people of
srmon a good
mile, but effec-
resident of the
owing that had
n the Mormons
in reference to
Salt Lake City.
was pleading for
bernacle one or
tiers were deliver
parts of the city
| "the Presidents
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/ speaking in the
on Sunday.
as escorted on the
i to the tabernacle
The review of the
ook place in the
the Mormon temple.
1t 1900 of them,
hite and blue. They
n a big sloping plat
way that the colof
huge living American
stars were there, fast
ps worn by the boys
as one of the prettiest
;ident has seen on his
ngement of the flag was
drs. ]. Kent Meyers, 2
he Confede1acy.
bernacle was crowded,
t presided. In beginning
paid this compliment to
1t as a preacher:
| that my distinguished
under the inspiration Of
like this, delivered an ad-
nature of a sermon up
hours in length. Ee had
he had the spirit and he
ission to make such a
of moral force and ! lspira-
lew how to appeal to the
in a man and VIC Aan 10
| to lift themsel IS TO
dards and higher ideals.
not been given T. me to
t great influence which
which shone forth from
stood befre mer upon o
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-19

feet IL she is rich and high-class, she is
not allowed 10 go on the streets. and If
poor she works In the fields and does all
girl is uneducated aud not one woman
in a hundred can read and write. The
new China Is TO be full of girls schools.
its girls feet are TO be allowed their nat
trsil growth and its women are TO take
their part in the work of the world. Girls
are already employed in the telephone
offices Of Hongkong and Shanghai. They
are teaching everywhere in the kinder
eartens and primary schools. and medical
colleges have befn established to fit them
for trained nurses and doctors. The Vice
roy of Wuchans has school in which
same Is true of Tuan Fang. the Viceroy
of Marking. There are several large
girls schools in Peiing. and one of the
Manchu princesses. member OF the i'm
perial family has established a girls
establishments are now teaching girls
and the demand for educated women as
wives is far greater than the supply.
The sentiment against binding the feet
is very rapidly growing. The great en-
press dowager sent out an edict shortly
before her death denouncing the custom,
and advising all the girls and women of
Chi Tung has written an article on the
subject, and before he died Ii Hung
Chang advised that the custom be dis
continued. Many OF the viceroys and gov
ernors have sent out proclamations favor
ing the abolition of footbinding, and a
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flesh would have hidden it. The skin over
the instep was az rough as though II
had been chafed with the cold ana II was
cracked and sore. The girls leg was
bare half way to the knee. II looked
like a pipestem, or rather a base ball
club. 1t had no calf. and the doctor told
me that the small feet throw the mus
cles of that part of the leg into disuse.
and that the leg below the knee Is
straight to the ankle. The sight of the
bare. foot is SO disgusting that the wom-
en- and girls are chary about showing
their feet to the men Of the family. IN
deed, / am told that q husband rarely
sees his wife's feet. although when hus-
bard and wife sleep in the same bed
their heads rest at opposite ends of the
cover.
ent ages in different parts Of China. In
this part Of the Yangtse valley II is
started at the age of four or FIVE years
The little girl is taken on the lap Of her
wraps one foot and then the other round
and round with a long piece Of tape about
half an inch wide. Before she begins she
presses the four small toes down under
the sole. and then takes turn Of the tape
about the big toe at the joint. Fastening
this, she stretches the tape back around
the heel. pressing it downward SO that the
instep is thrown slightly up. The tape Is
next carried to the front Of the foot, ana
the small toes bound tightly that they
are sunk into the flesh. The child cries
during this operation, and. in fact, she
keeps crying q great part of the time
thereafter. Next a piece OF stiff cloth Is
wrapped about the foot and fastened on
with strong thread SO tightly that the foot
cannot grow. Tight-f1tting shoes or Slip
pers are then added and over these more
binding is put. SO that the foot finally
looks like a club.
AS the child grows the bandages have to
be made tighter and tighter. and the chill
dren must be punished to keep them from
tearing them of. 1t is common saying
that every small foot has filed a hogs
head with tears. / have heard of c. uel
mothers who keep a club beside them at
night in case they cry from the pain in
their feet. but doubt II rthis is the case
except with the mothers-tn-law, who have
a bad reputation in China. Sometimes
opium is given to quiet the pain, and
sometimes the girl hangs her legs over the
edge Of the wooden bedstead, so as to stop
the circulation and thus ease it. II the
binding Is too tight. the foot is liable to
break In two at the instep. and the bones
come through the flesh. Sometimes NOR
tincation sets in and the toes drop off. I
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Chinese Longer Their Feet Writes Frank Carpente

is dead the question is again agitated
and the queue will eventually go. Some
of the schoolboys are already cutting of
Their hair, and there is a strong senti-
ment that this should be enforced in the
army. The soldiers find their pigtaiis
very inconvenient in warfare. They must
be wrapped about the head before going
into battle. and the constant shaving and
braiding necessary to keep them in order
cannot be done during a campaign Be-
sides. i'm the case Of hand-to-hand fight
the man who wears the queue is at a dis
advantage, as he can be jerked this way
and that by his enemy The Chinese po-
licemen now coil their quepes like a snake
inside their caps. They seriously impede
their attempts at arrest, and they want
to get rid of them. 1t is the same with
many OF the leading statesmen. Said Mr..
Cheng, the former adviser OF one of the
yiceroys, To ME: II should like to see an
edict for all officials to cut off their
queues. I can tell you that mine will go
are millions of other Oh nese who viii I've
glad to get it. We only keep them because
it Is according to the fashion and the
law. and we shall be glad to see them
60
The queue came into China as a badge
Of servitude to the Manchus. and IL IS
still compulsory. In some of the secret
societies which have been recently or
Sanized to do away with the Tartar gov
eminent the candidates for membership
are TtqueSlSu 10 cut OH tnelr queues, aha
they sometimes do SO. This, however. is
dangerous, as it might be looked upon
as S gn of rebellion. Many Of the stu
dents who go to America adopt foreign
clothes and cut off their hair while abroad.
They use false queues when they return.
Such things are sold in every Chinese
city. The hair is hung up on sheets and
one can get very fair pigtail for from
80 cents To a dollar. Many of the Chinese
wea.' false queues and not a few rein
force their ha r with black silk thread.
And all this brings me to another
question that is agitating the men OF
this empire. This is. will the Chinese
wear trousers? I answer yes. Tie Women
have had them from time immemoriai
and the workingmen of the lower
classes are wearing them now. II 10
only the gentlemen who are always clad
in long gowns. They wear silks. satins
and velyets. but they often have ON
trousers under their dresses. and W
the new movement they will abolish
the latter and come out clad like the
Japanese or ourselves.
FRANK C. CARPENTER.
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number of societies have been started in
the different provinces in favor of the
natural foot for all women. In all the
girls schools the government regulations
provide that the pupils must come with
their feet unbound. and system of gym
naStic exercises has been instituted which
In talking last night with one of the h sh
officials of Marking. ] was told that foot
binding would soon disappear. and that
the sentiment against it is rapidly grow
ing. The man l refer to was educated in
the United States. Said he:
Il have two daughters, and one is nine
teen years old. Neither have bound feet
The same is true of many well-to-do
girls in my city, and especially so with
the children of high officials all over the
empire. The. edict of the empress dow
ager had d wonderful effect. 1t has made
the big foot respectable, and the ordinary
Chinese parent will give up the custom
as soon as he finds his daughters can get
husbands without it,
| talked last night with Chinese Off
cial, who is worth ten million dollars or
more. He tells met that none of his wom-
en- are binding their feet. and believes
that the practice will gradually disappear.
As il is now footbinding is confined to
the Chinese. The Manchus, who are the
reigning family of this empire, have
never bound their feet, and the great
empress dowager and all the court
ladies of Picking have feet which are less
pinched than those OF the average Ameri-
can belle. They wear shoes of silk and
satin beautifully embroidered. and when
they go visiting, have gorgeous slippers
with heels in the center of the sole about
two inches high. The average Chinese
woman has naturally a beautiful foot.
and the same Is true of the Manchu. 1t
is smaller than that of the Caucasian.
and the instep is usually such that water
could run under 1t without touching the
skin So far / have seen none which
corresponds with the old darkey SONG
about his sweetheart:
And de hollow OBJ her foot makes g
hole in de groun.''
The Chinese women We're binding their
feet when the Manchus came in, and the
men then wore long hair all over their
heads The Manchus compelled them to
shave their heads. excepting the pigtail
as a sign of servitude. and before long
the practice became 80 popular that they
adopted it themselves. Ii was differen,
with the binding of the feet. The Tar
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several excellent books upon China. IL
was she who originated the T'ian Tsu Hui
the women of China This was started
about fifteen years ago, with branches
all over the empire. 1t was supported
by the missionary women and other for
eigners. and it has distributed tracts. pic
turing the evils of the practice, every
where. 1t memorialiZed the throne, and
was largely instrumental in getting the
empress dOwager to send out the big foot
edict. Among other pictures made by
this society was the photograph of a
bound foot by the X-ray process. This
shows how horribly the foot is deformed,
the bones being crushed out Of shape.
I have talked with many Chinese about
the natural foot woman. The best of
them deprecate the custom of foot bind
ing, and all say that 1t is bound to go.
At the same time they get even with me
by denouncing the practice of lacing, SO
common among the women of the United
States. saying that it is worse to conf
press the vital organs than the feet. They
consider the small waist ugly, rather than
beautiful, and say both customs have
their foundation in depraved ideas OF
the beautiful. One Chinese remarked:
Our men have been accustomed to con-
slider small feet beautiful. The women
think the men like il, and that the girl
who has a golden lily foot will have a
better chance for marriage. Therefore
they undergo the pain of binding. Your
full, and therefore your women squeeze
their bones by tying one end of the cor
set rope to bedpost and pulling on the
other in order to lace 1t the tighter. You
may call our people a nation of cripples
because the better class OF women have
to hobhle around on bound feet. From
tight lacing your people are nation OF
invalids. sThree-fourths of your women
are under the care Of the doctors hall
the time. and that from the bad practice
of lacing. l venture that on the average
the Chinese woman is healthier than the
American woman. Why do you not stay
at home and advocate an anti-waist-bind-
ing society. instead Of coming over here
to write about foot binding!'
Connected with the anti-foot- binding
movement is another relating to the men.
This is for the abolition Of the queue. The
high-class officials and the better element
of the people are seriously discussing
doing away with the p gtail. This was
not favored by the old empress dowager.
1t was proposed to her in 1898, but she
replied that no edict favoring 1t should
be issued while she lived. Now that she
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tars have always denounced 1t, and sew
erai of the emperors OF the past nave
the Chinese began. it is said, more than
a thousand years ago. having been In
troduced by all empress. who had goat
feet covered with hair, and who ban
daged them, and thus set the fashion
She clothed them in yellow satin and
they came to be known as golden lilies,
which is the term for the celestial Grip
pied tootsie-wootsie of today. OF course,
the people did not know of the deformt-
ty. They thought the empress had
children to make them like her. At any
rate. the custom of the binding of the
feet came into vogue, and to this day it
is common
with tie bandages of can appreciate
how one of these deformed Chinese feet
looks. In the satin shoe embroidered
with gay silk or silver and gold II 10
more like "A stuffed club that foot. The
big toe only rests on the ground, and the
size of the foot is measured by this rather
than the full length of the foot. / know
of ore woman who has a foot so small
that she can stand on a silver dollar and
the sole will not come outside of the
edges The wife of one of the viceroys
has feet an inch and a quarter long, and
the favOrite concubine of another has feet
an inch long and half an inch wide.
While the average bound foot is not over
the ground.
Taking off the bandages. one sees tina.
the part of the foot which touches the
ground is never more than the toe and
the heel and often only the toe. The bind
ing is done SO that the foot is crushed
out of Shape. The instep is thrown up
and the toe and the heel tied together.
while the other four toes are bent under
the foot in the crack between them. 1t is
very difficult to see Chinese girls foot
unbound, but once had the opportunity
10 examine one. 1t was in hospital, and
l posed as a consulting physician. The
patient was high-class girl of sixteen
who had spra'ned her ankle, and she had
taken off the bandages TO allow the doc
tor to dress 1t. Her leg was not swollen.
but the foot to me was a horrible sight.
The four small toes had almost grown
into the sole and there was a crack about
three inches deep where the heel and big
toe CAME together. ! could have slipped
a silver dollar into that crack and the
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UNIQUE PORTRAIT Or RoBERr TAFT

liar status. Horseback riding is another
standard holiday occupation for the Taft
young people. President Taft, who since
he became a convert to the automobile
goes for horseback ride only OCCASION
ally, has been known to plan these eques-
TRAN excursions for every day during the
holiday week, when he could be accom-
panied by all three Of his children. Miss
Helen Taft, while not making 1t the
hobby that Miss Ethel Roosevelt did
when in the White House. is skilled in
park riding Mrs. Taft rode horseback
when the family was in the Philippines,
but does not do SO in Washington.
1t is at Christmas time that there is
emphasized the really unique status of
Fred w. Carpenter in the White House
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of Murray Bay on the ST. Lawrence river.
The very number of the relatives of the
President and Mrs. Taft, combined with
the circumstance that they have been
generous in their hospitality during the
Years when the present tenants of the
White House had no home that they could
really call their own, has been partly
responsible for what might be termed
the nomadic Christmases of the Taft chill,
dren. In some instances, during the
oriental service of William Fl. Taft and
sible for all the members of the family
to be together on the browning holiday
of the year. Then, again, when the fam
lily circle was complete there lave come
invitations from relatives comfortably
settled in homes of their own. and ac-
cordingly prone to feel themselves better
qualified to dispense Christmas cheer than
could Brother BIZ in u rented house
or a hotel Thus the Taft children have
been able to contrast Christmas in the
Philippines with Christmas in our Amer
lean cities-notably in Cincinnati and
Washington-and finally to compare the
traditional family rally with the novelty
of Christmas in unusual surround ngs. as.
for instance, the Christmas of 1908 at
Augusta, Ga.
Christmas in the White House, with all
five members of the family at home, to
say nothing of the presence of relatives.
such as Mrs. Taft's sister, has an especial
Significance because in days gone by,
with the three children at widely separat-
ed schools, it was not always possible to
have all the members of the family gather
around the festive board each Xmas for
the repast of turkey and plum pudding.
When William II. Taft entered public life
he determined that he would always keep
his family with him wherever he went
instead of following the example of many
public men in leaving the family back
home when they enter the federal
service. This was d particularly laudable
ambition in the case of Taft, because the
present chief executive is not man OF
independent means. but has always been
dependent upon his salary. Int for all
that, Taft did everything possible to pre-
serve his family circle intact. even to
taking the junior members Of the house
hold to the Philippines. There have been
a number of holidays during the past
decade when the members have been scat
tered. Presumably this need not be the
case on any of the ensuing four Christ
masses.
Aside from the pleasure of spending
Christmas at home the holidays in
their new environment at the White
House will be welcome to the Taft chill
dren by reason of the opportunity af-
forded to entertain school friends as
house guests. This is a form of hospi-
tally which finds especial favor with
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ANEw horoOF CHARLIE TAFT

passenger. On more than one occasion
charlie has unsuccessfully appealed to
his father to allow him to take the wheel
under the supervision of one OF the
White House chauffeurs. but the Presi-
dent is inclined to believe that his lively
son should postpone his apprenticeship
in this pastime.
The Christmas reunion of the Taft
young folks always means an indulgence
in outdoor sport. weather permitting.
Motoring has had prominent place in
the Taft category of outdoor pastimes
ever since Christmas week year ago at
Augusta, Ga, when all the members OF
the family formed party that went for
numerous excursions In the big steam
touring car that then possessed Tor all
Of them the novelty of a new toy. Such
parties are less frequent now for the rea-
son that the motoring of the Tafts is now
more specialized-tile President and his
sons using the big touring car. Mrs. Taft
pinniny her faith to the six-thouSand-stx-
hundred-dollar gasoline car OF the IL
rnousine type, and Miss Helen driving the
natty one-thousand-eight- hundred dollar
electric, which was procured primarily for
her mothers use. but which since the III
ness O.. Mrs. Taft has been used princl-
pally by her daughter. This makes a
most convenient town car for the new
belle of the White House, who has nu-
merous demands upon her time whenever
she comes to the White House from Bryn
Mawr College to spend holiday-due to
Tie W IHNIC VI IL iChAS Aci AiSU MA
ing the years spent in preparatory educa-
ton at the Cathedral School in Wash
inston.
Miss Helen Taft is not a golf enth,14d-
asst, but her two brothers are. and they
always plan to spend more or less time
on the links during the Christmas holi-
days. Robert Taft. who has been play
ipo n is Ollite
ficlent. and Charlie. who took up the
Scotch game about a year and a half
ago at the behest and under the tutelage
Of his father, is rapidly attaining sim
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toric associations OF the Wmte Rouse
and its storied past as the scene of many
memorable Christmas frolics, 1T is not to
be expected that any young people whose
parents are secure in a four-year lease
would elect to spend the yuletide else
where than In the presidential mansion
But. as has been said, anything ap-
preaching foregone conclusion as TO
how and where the December holidays
shall be spent is distinctly novelty In
the Taft household.
1t is not that the Tafts, who now rama
as the first family of America. do not set
great store by family holidays and family
gatherings. On the contrary they are an
exceptionally clannish family-not only
the immediate connection of the Presi-
dent, but that overwhelming circle of
kith and kin that embraces aunts. UNI
cles. nephews, nieces and cousins on both
sides of the family. Indeed, the Taft
propensity for Strengthening the ties of
blood is we'll exemplified by custom long
in vogue of having the members of the
various branches of the family rendez-
Sous each summer at the vacation resort
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yuletide program. from Christmas carols
to the Virginia reel. With two pianos
including the new white and gold baby
grand, late'y installed In the blue parlor-
and one Of the finest concealed horn
monographs. there need be no lack of
pulse-quickening rhythm.
For all that the junior members Of the
Taft family are enthusiastic over the
as inseparable from the December sea-
son of merriment and good will, they do
not yield unwaverfng allegiance to what
might be termed the more fantastic forms
of Christmas observance. Never in re-
cent years has the Christmas tree been
regarded as an Indispensable adjunct in
the Taft household. Possibly this is ex-
p'ained in some measure by the fact that
the older children are rather serious and
studious in temperament, while not only
the three young people in the Presidents
household, but all near nrelatives, have
long since passed the age when a REM
nant of the Santa Claus tradition remains
to color the holiday atmosphere. Mr..
been making such a creditable record at
Yale, is now in his twentieth year. and
Miss Helen, the only daughter, is eighteen
years of age
II remained for twelve-year-old Charlie,
tie youngest and most energetic member
of the White House family, to supply
that element of speculative anticipation
that adds zest to the holiday prelude.
Last Christmas Charlie received as a
present from Mrs. c. p. Taft. his wealthy
aunt in Cincinnati, the pony Major, a
handsome strawberry roam. that came as
the realization of an oft-expressed desire.
This year Charlie has no preference that
is so pronounced. The thing which he
would like above all others is out OF the
question. This is an automobile. Charlie
has all his fathers enthusiasm for motor
ing, and, added to it, an overwhelming
longing to operate an automobile instead
of merely occupying the passive roll OF