The Detroit times., 1912-07-26
Miss Byerly, in Flight From WI
Chang, Passed Bodies of
Many Manchus
HUNT FOR HATED RACE
When Found a Whistle Brought
Other Soldiers and the
Slaughter Began

C0Dal Foreign MlSslon III
china. IN In the city. She is known
j ihere as the angel (tien-szel OF
Wuchang'' for the part she TOOK IN
; btotecting the girls OF the mandarin
<bas In her charge there at the timc
~ the revolution. She had been In
cIarre OF this school for IL years.
.Imagine," she said, 1.-The feeling
~ amazement we have experienced
6ince the new republic in the Oldest
akd most conservative kingdom OF
the world. The woman or the Wess
no once taught them and pitied
4 them are now in turn objects OF pity
~ the women of China. The Boxer
methods OF China are now being
ehonted to obtain the suffrage.
That's the awful paradox that ms
tory will have TO record some Day
"It was dificuit at first getting &C,
uhainted with the people, l STUDIED
Tie mandarin Tor oficial) dlalect'
ahd In six weeks was able TO MAKE
NV wants known. Tactfuliy anu
With friendly advances | made some
ofogress after year. Then one uay
flreceived q polite note from one Oh
X tie officials asking me to call on MS
Family. This proved to be the enter.
ing wedge. ! soon met others Oh
kkis class, and our mission came 10
zee the need for a school Tor the
Urls OF this class. who lead very
Isolated and conservative lie.
"As for the revolution, there were
signs long ahead. The first shot was
nred a hundred yards from my WIN
dow. After that 1t was incessant
Having girls of the ruling or Man
chm class in my school, was anxious
for their safety. With another
foreien lady was isolated from the
main mission at Wuchang. One OF
the officials asked US to come TO MS
kamen. where in the compound there
were about 80 women and slave
Girls. The gates were closed and the
rebel soldiers were outside
"Finally one of our missionaries
eame. and after deciding not to try
10 take any Of the girls back with
ma we started back to the main mis-
kion. We soon came upon signs OF
trouble. There were Manchu houses
burning and soon we came upon
groups of soldiers. They went from
house to house, asked If Manchus
were within. then whistled TO the
others, and the butchery began.
so all along the road we saw the
bodies Of Manchus, many OF them
friends of ours. Three Of my former
pupils were slaughtered with their
families. The feeling was intense
against one of my teachers and
was afraid she would be killed. She
was pure Chinese, but her husband
was a Manshu. This l told to the
soldiers and they let her of. Her
husband was not with her at the
time. and 80 escaped After terrible
hardships we missionaries were
taken to Hankow, and finally to
Changhai. where we had to walt Tor
the end of the trouble.
perhaps the most interesting In
sight had into the class that repre-
vented the old regime was when
was the guest OF Pekin OF a cousin
Of the emperor. In the Imperial City
Everything is low. as no house must
be higher than the emperor's- The
prince / visited was red-sash man
and a. thorough aristocrat. The ETH
4 auette that hedged him about that
koverned the relations Of his family
to him, was the most formal and
rigid. The women folk were always
warned OF his visit to their wing,
: and a formal ceremony ensued. II
was the only woman in the house
hold he spoke to in public. He never
Z ate with US, and the banquet he gave
In my honor before i left was hon
ored by his presence for only few
Y minutes The women eat alone, at
B tsrded by slave girls.
1.-THE dinner IL served on ebony
tables inlaid with pearl. The chairs
X are the same. The first course con-
4 sists Of watermelon seeds, peanuts.
I sweets and fruits, and each course
has seven other variations on its
i chief dish.
''Course two consisted Of pigeon
4 eggs and seven other varieties,
among which were duck eggs that
\ had been buried In lime for ten
4 years. In this time the white had
! turned to a jelly and the yolk had
become green.
"Course three was sea slugs and
n seven other varieties OF fish; course
four, seven dishes OF pork, like ham,
roast young pig. etc.; course five,
dessert Of lotus seeds, sweet rice,
etc; course six, boiled FISH and an
other dainty consisting of live crabs
the size of quarter, served wrig-
cling in deep dish; you dip them
In hot sauce and eat them alive.
course seven. shark fins and vari-
Gus vegetables; course eight, duck
and chicken in eight different dishes;
& course nine. rice served in various
ways. and soup served in big bowl,
each guest dipping a china ladle into
the common bowl
"The desert having come in the
middle OF the meal, this ends the
diner The slave girls then bring
around bowl Of steaming Florida
water and a towel You are sun
posed to wash your face aud hands.
and the maid then wrings out the
towel and passes IL to the next guest
for use"
1T was time that China had a
revolution" suggested a listener.
But the Angel OF wuchang did not
mile. She takes her China far too
seriously to joke about il.
His Example.
Teacher-Bobby, give me an exam.
ME Of the word dauDef n------