Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . d allover Europe and hadmet with nothing butmen and women. Wemay extend the rangeto China, and may seein the pictures drawnin the above-mentionedwork, of the farmyards,the dwellings, the kitch-ens, and the store-roomsof the silk producers ofChina, pleasing parallelsto the brighter aspects ofEnglish agricultural employment ofwomen in arranging andmanaging the silkwormindus
Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . d allover Europe and hadmet with nothing butmen and women. Wemay extend the rangeto China, and may seein the pictures drawnin the above-mentionedwork, of the farmyards,the dwellings, the kitch-ens, and the store-roomsof the silk producers ofChina, pleasing parallelsto the brighter aspects ofEnglish agricultural employment ofwomen in arranging andmanaging the silkwormindustry, gives an inter-est to their hves, and isa sure preventive againstthat languor which sooften overtakes the un-employed women of thecities. The cultivationof silk can be tracedback almost as far asthe beginning of agri-culture, and up to theadvent of the Mongoldynasty, in the thir-teenth century, it flour-ished exceedingly. With the arrival, how-ever, of the hordes of Jenghis Khan camethe introduction of Indian cotton, which,from its cheapness and utility, was speedily preferred to the silken products of the loomsof China. For four hundred years the industry wasneglected, and continued to exist only in the. A NATIVE CHINESE MISSIONARY. provinces of Szechuan, Honan, Kwangtungand Chehkiang, where just enough stuff wasmanufactured to supply the wants of thegovernment and the local consumers. With 282 CHINA: PAST AND PRESENT. the establishment of the present Manchudynasty and the arrival of foreigners, thedemand for the material which had givenits name to China all over the ancient world—serica—led to a revival of the industry,and at the present time silk is produced in
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