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Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08
VARIOUS MATTERS

VARIOUS MATTERS
Tho town has an after-the-hail look
Expressmen have had few stren-
uous days.
The family gatherings have begun
to dispense.
Norwich was town of sound sleep.
ers. Wednesday night.
The garbage collectors found their
work trebled on Wednesday.
The Rose Of New England IL a we'll
advertised flower this week.
The interest in the loan exhibition
is SO great that Converse hall VIII be
kept open today from 10 to for the
accommodation of the public.
Some OF the windows on the side
streets stil advertise Sandwiches"
To the workers. Wednesday seemed
like Monday, following the holidays.
At most Of the prayer meetings this
evening there will be reference to the
anniversary's close
Photographers were busy on We'd
nesday taking final pictures OF the
building decorations.
The bell will not ring at Second
church tonight. but there will be serv-
ice as usual at 7.45;-adv.
The annual meeting of the state
council, Junior O. u. A. NJ. will be
held in Danbury on September 20.
Worse even than confetti In the
street litter were the yards and yards
of colored paper ribbons strewn about.
Cool nights remind many of Prof.
Edward +. Nulty's warning that the
nearness of the new comet may result
in an actual July snowstorm.
The interest in the loan exhibition
Is SO great that Converse hall will be
kept open today from 10 to s for the
accommodation of the public.
The clear, cool weather has been a
help to the haymaker. who says rain
is essential just now to develop veg
citation. as the top Of the ground is
becoming very dry.
Miss Grace S. Benjamin. the new
directress, is now in charge at the
Halle club, which closed a most sue
cessful season on Saturday evening.
with q membership of over five hun
dred and a lengthy waiting list
The hay crop is found to be light on
old meadows, owing to the continued
dry weather of last summer, which
killed the roots of the grass, and the
favorable weather Of the present sea-
son has not had the desired effect of
starting new roots.
The interest in the loan exhibition
is so great that Converse hall win be
kept open today from 10 to for the
accommodation of the public.
Taxpayers in Scotland and neigh
boring towns are pestered this season
by pigeons, which pull the young
corn worse than crows do. A few
birds came f1rst-from Norwich, they
think-and later these returned, ac-
companied by scores Of their thieving
kinfolk.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Jeremiah sullivan and daughter.
Alice. OF Taunton. Mass. are guests Of
Mr.. Sullivan,s brother, Teddy, the
we'll known hotel man
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08
Buffalo Bin IN Norwich,

To Inquirer-The last visit of Buzz
faio Bin to Norwich Vas nads In July
lot 1901 II
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

William Armstrong and daughter
Josie Of Pawtucket are visiting Mr.
Armstrong; nephew, Edward ARM
strong of Ciairmount avenue.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Cool nights remind many of Prof.
Edward +. Nulty's warning that the
nearness of the new comet may result
in an actual July snowstorm.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The interest in the loan exhibition
is SO great that Converse hall will be
kept open today from 10 to 6 for the
accommodation of the public.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The clear, cool weather has been a
help to the haymaker. who says rain
is essential just now to develop veg
citation. as the top Of the ground Is
becoming very dry.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Miss Grace S. Benjamin. the new
directress, is now in charge at the
Halle club, which closed a most sue
cessful season on Saturday evening
with a membership of over five hun
dred and lengthy waiting list.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Worse even than confetti IN the
street litter were the yards and yards
of colored paper ribbons strewn about.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Whittemore
and Miss Lillian Giles OF Putnam and
James Timms OF Hartford have been
spending the 250th anniversary with
Mr.. and Mrs. III. Neff.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The annual meeting of the state
council, Junior O. U. A. NJ. will be
held in Danbury on September 20.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The interest in the loan exhibition
is so great that Converse hall win be
kept open today from 10 to for the
accommodation of the public.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Taxpayers in Scotland and neigh
boring towns are pestered this season
by pigeons, which pull the young
corn worse than crows do. few
birds came frst-from Norwich. they
think-and later these returned, ac-
companied by scores Of their thieving
kinfolk
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The bell will not ring at Second
church tonight but there viii be serv-
ice as usual at 7.45;-adv.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The hay crop is found to be light on
old meadows, owing to the continued
dry weather of last summer, which
killed the roots of the grass, and the
favorable weather Of the present sea-
son has not had the desired effect Of
starting new roots.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Photographers were busy on We'd
nesday taking final pictures OF the
building decorations.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Samuel Levine. O. New York hard
ware salesman, is visiting A. Swatz-
bszrg oc Forest street for q weslx.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Miss Josephine Nicolaf OF Puque-
tanslck has returned, a6osr visiting
her sister In New Haven
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Joseph G. Palmer and wife of Bos-
ton, Fremont D. Palmer and family Of
New York were visiting at their moth
er's on Church street. Monday and
Tuesday Of this week.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

At most Of the prayer meetings this
evening there will be reference to the
anniversary's close
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Miss Lucy Ladd and Mrs. Charles
Warren Of South Manchester were the
guestsf Of Miss Dora WALK during the
eazabcation.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Mrs. j. II. Richie of Broad street
has been a recent guest Of Mrs. Rod
erick Sullivan at her cottage at Ocean
Beach.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The family gatherings have begun
% dispense.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

John R. Moran, bookkeeper in the
main ONCE Of the Gallivan Building
company. Of Greenville. N. c.. has re-
turned south. after spending two weeks
at his home on Union street.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Norwich was town Of sound sleep.
ers. Wednesday night.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The interest in the loan exhibition
is SO great that Converse hall will be
kept open today from 10 to for the
accommodation of the public.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Some OF the windows on the side
streets stia advertise Sandwiches"
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Expressmen have had q few strsn-
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The garbage collectors found their
work trebled on Wednesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Florence Mccarthy Of Paterson. N
J., and Misses Mary and Catherine
Mccarthy OF Fitchville were the
guests Of Mrs. p. w. Murphy of Peck
street during the Norwich celebra-
ton.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

To the workers, Wednesday seemed
like Monday, following the holidays
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Selectman John r. Burns Of Bozrah
has been attending the celebration in
Norwich. Mr.. Burns was born in Nor
witch and always took an interest in
its progress. At present he is one of
Bozrah's most influential citizens.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Mrs. George Fl. Bates and Miss
Charlotte Evelyn Bates. who have
been spending the week with Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Robinson, leave for their
home in Dorchester. Mass, on Friday.
the 10th.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

Mrs. Mary Colt Pattee, formerly of
Norwich. has returned to her home In
Scuthbridge. Mass, after spending
several days with Mr.. and Mrs. r. q.
Colt Of Union street.
Norwich bulletin., 1909-07-08

The Rose Of New England IL a we'll
advertised flower this week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19

The binding of the feet begins at diffSr- ent ages in different parts of China. In this part of the Yangtse valley 1t is started at the age of four CT five years. The little girl is taken on The lap of her mother, and a professional footDinder wraps one foot and then tue other round and round with a long piece of tape about half an inch wide. Before she be- gins she presses the four small toes down under the sole and then takes a turn of the tape about the big toe at the joint. Fastening this she stretches the tape back around the heel, pressing 1t downward so that the instep is thrown slightly up. The tape Is next carried to the front of the foot and the small toes bound so tightly that they are sunk into the flesh. The child cries during this operation, and, in fact, she keeps crying a 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-fltting shoes or slippers are then added and over these more binding is put, so that the foot finally looks like club.
 As the child grows the bandages nave to be made tighter and tighter and the children must be punished to keep them from tearing them off. It Is a common saying that every small foot has filled a hogshead with tears. I have heard Of cruel mothers who keep club beside them at night in case they cry from the pain in their feet, but I doubt if this IS the case except with the mothers-in-law who have a bad reputa ton in China. Sometimes opium is given to quiet the pain ana sometimes the siIl hangs her legs over the edge of the wooden bed- stead so as to stop the circulation and thus ease it. If the binding is too tight the foot is liable to break In two at the instep and the bones cone through the fiesh Sometimes modification sets in and the toes drop off. l have known of women losing their feet by having them frozen, the lack of circulation preventing them from resisting the cold At a Cam ton hospital which I visited some time ago a woman who had lost her feet in this way walked in on the stumps to be treated.
 Can the Crpples Be Cured?
 One of the live questions which is now before the women of China is whether their feet can be cured if they take off
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19

element of the people arc seriously dis cussing doing away with the pigtail This was not favored by the old empress dowager. It was proposed to her in 1898 but she replied that no edict favor ing it should be issued while she lived. Now that she Is dead tue question is again agitated and the queue will event ually go. Some of the schoolboys are already cutting off their hair and there is a strong sentiment that this should be enforced in the army. The soldiers find their pigtails very inconvenient In warfare. They must be wrapped about the head before going into battle and the constant shaving and braiding nec- essary to keep them in order cannot be done during campaign. Besides. in the case of a hand-to-hand fight the man who wears the queue is at dis advantage, as he can be 5erked this way and that by his enemy. The Chinese po- licemen now coil their queues like a snake inside their caps. They serious ly impede their attempts at arrest and they want to get rid of them. It is the same with many of the leading statesmen. Said Mir. Cheng, the former adviser of one of the viceroys. to me: q should like to see an edict for all officials to cut off their queues. I can tell you that mine will go off the first day it comes and that tlera are mil- lions of other Chinese who will be glad to get it. We only keep them because 1t is according to the fashion and the law, and we shal be glad t' see them go."
 The queue came into China as badge of servitude to the Manchus, and 1t Is still compulsory. In some of the secret societies which have been recently or ganized to do away with tile Tartar gov ernment the candidates for membership are requested to cut off their queues ana they sometimes do so This. however, IS dangerous as it might be looked upon as sign 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 50 cents to a dollar. Many or the Chinese wear false queues and not q few reinforce their hair with black SIX thread.
 Will the Chinese Wear Pants7
 And all this brings me to another question that is agitating the men Of
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19

the bandages. In the case of the older women 1t Is impossible, although even they can be relieved of pain. The de- formed feet, However, cannot be made over again, and they must walk with canes or hobble to the end of their days. The feet of the younger women largely re- sume their natural shape, although they have none of the beauty of those which have not been bound. The unbinding has to be carefully done, and the feet must be rubbed and massaged to increase the circulation. It is difficult to persuade the women who have been binding their feet, to stop, but the young girls are wild for the change, and that especially as it is now becoming possible to get husband if ones foot is large. Indeed, the big foot, or rather the unbound foot, Is liable to be beau-catcher As a Chinese off cial said to me, the men of the new re- gime are anxious to have their wives go about with them, and those who have a chance to travel abroad would like their company. This is not possible with the small-footed woman, who has often to walk with a cane or to have servants support her when she goes out from home
 Anti-F Footbindinr Societies.
 This movement against footbinding is being pushed by associations of native men and women in different parts of China. There is an organization in Can ton, known as the No Footbinding so- ciety, to which 10000 fathers belong. They have pledged themselves not to bind the feet of their daughters and to object to their sons marrying girls with bound feet. Many of the wives of the members have taken off the bandages and litera- ture denouncing the custom is being dis tributed.
 There is similar organization in western China, and for some years a propaganda against this evil has been carried at Shanghai. hai. There is an Englishwoman of Shanghai who has done more perhaps for the female cripples of this nation than any native man or woman. I refer to Mrs. Archibald Little, who has written
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19

several excellent books upon China It was she who originated the Tian Tsu Hui society, which advocates natural feet for the women of China. This was started about 15 years ago, with branches all over the empire It was supported by the missionary women and other for- eigners, and 1t has distributed tracts, pie turing the evils of the practice. every where. It 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 bound foot by the X-ray process. This shows how horribly the foot is deformed, the bones being crushed out of shape.
 Small Feet vs. Tight Waists.
 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 1t is worse to com 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 it, and that the girl who has golden lily foot will have a better chance for marriage. Therefore they undergo the pain of binding. Your men think the wasp-like waist Is beauti- ful, 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 nation of cripples because the better class of women have to hobble around on bound feet From tight lacing your people are nation of invalids. Three-fourths of your women are under the care of the doctors half the time, and that from the bad practice of lacing. I 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?"
 The Abolition of the Queue.
 Connected with the anti-footbinding movement Is another relating to the men. This is for the abolition of the queue. The high-class officials and the better
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
How a Bound Foot Looks.


 No one who has not seen a golden lily with the bandages off can appreciate how one of these deformcd Chinese feet looks. In the satin shoe embroidered with gay silk or silver and gold 1t IS more like a stuffed club than foot. The big toe only rests on the ground and the size of the foot is measured by this rath- CT than the full length of the foot. 1 know of one woman who has a foot so small that she can stand on silver dol- lar and the sole will not come outside of the edges The wife of one of the vice. roys had feet an inch and quarter long and the favorite concublne of another has feet an inch long and half an inch wide. While the average bound foot js not over two inches in diameter where 1t rests on the ground.
 Taking off the bandages, one sees that 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. It is very difficult to see a Chinese girls foot unbound but I once had he opportunity to examine one. It was in a hospital and I posed as a consulting physician. The patient was high-class girl of sixteen who had sprained 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 amost grown into the sole and there was crack about three inches deep where tine heel and big toe came together. I could have slipped a silver dollar into that crack and the flesh would have hidden it. The skin over the instep was as rough as though 1t had been chafed with the cold and it was crackled and sore. The girls leg was bare half way to the knee. It looked like a pipestem or rather a base ball club It had no calf and +he doctor told me 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 theiy feet to the men of the family. h. deed. am told that husband rarely aces his wife's feet although when hus- hand and wife sleep in the same bed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
Horrors of Footbinding.

their heads rest at opposite ends of the cover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-19
The Big-Footed Manchu.

And de hollow ob her foot makes a hole in de groun"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-18
SURE He CAN WIPE
OUT DREAD WHITE
PLAGUE
NEEDS 100000 TO BATTLE DIS
EAsE-lN 1908, CONSUMPTION
KILLED 10000 PERSONS IN
NEW YORK STATE.

NEW YORK, Feb. 1t.-Frederick
Townsend Martin, who has made a
widespread appeal for assistance In
the work he has undertaken TO stamp
out the great white plague. said:
This appeal is one to all humanity,
all mankind-it is not. as has been de-
clared. the cry OF society 10 the poor
OF New York-to live their lives In a
more hygienic atmosphere and under
more sanitary conditions. 1t Is OF
wider scope. and is intended to- mean
for all, not only here but elsewhere.
to join in movement to aid suffering
mankind. and by combating the dis
case save thousands OF lives. BY unit
ing In the war we can drive this hor-
ior-for horror it .s-from the whole
country. The soldiers comprising our
army must come fran all ranks and
from both sexes OF all ages. particu-
larly in large communities where
space is scarce, and air-fresh air
is held OF no special value TO human
life.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-02-18
TREE COMMISSION
IS HURLbUT'S
SCHEME
SAYS GENERAL PLAN OF PLANT
ING, UNDER DIRECTION OF Elk
PERTs is NECESSARY IF ciTYIs.
TO BE PROPERLY SHADED.

An ordinance giving the park and
boulevard department greater power
to look after and plant trees or naming
tree commission TO carry on forestry
work In the city is recommended by
Park Secretary NJ. p. Hurlbut. As
he views ii, the only guarantee OF a
proper shade for the city in the course
of years lies in the adoption of some
plan at the present time.
Such commission, or division OF
the park department should have the
lower to look after all trees in the
streets. TO combat insect pests and 10
cut down and remove dead trees or dis
eased ones when necessary says
Hurlbut.
mo trees should be planted in the
city without a permit The property
owner buys trees OF nurseryman on
the latter's recommendation but the
departments forester would know bet
ter than the property-owner what kind
OF trees would grow best in that kind
of soil. Different trees take to clay
or TO sand. as the case may be. and
only certain varieties can flourish in
smoky districts.
When a new subdivision is laid
out. the city should look after the
planting Of trees there as closely as
II does after the sidewalks and drain
ege. The tree division should either
give the owner a permit to plant GER
tain kinds of trees, or else plant the
trees and charge them up as tax
against the property. BY some sucn
means we could be assured OF having
shaded city twenty years from now.
This problem OF trees is being taken
up more and more all over the world
and Detroit ought To get into the pro-
cession."
City Forester Hunter IS preparing to
take his gangs out bug-hunting just as
soon as the weather permits. He be-
lieves that the tree pests were check
ed by the campaign of the last couple
OF years and will be greatly diminished
al the close OF this year.