. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . MM . • m Group of Chinese Children, 266 SEEN THROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE EYES. they have been long enough in thewater, the child would be ordered totake them up, or rather allowed totake them up, when they would beimmediately wound tightly aroundwith a strong; bandage. The baii- -. U i - ?? Mother and dage is kept on until the next opera-tion, during which interval the childsuffers untold agony. In course oftime the growth of the feet ischecked so much that in extremecases, even when the person is grownup the feet a
. The Granite monthly : a magazine of literature, history and state progress . MM . • m Group of Chinese Children, 266 SEEN THROUGH NEW HAMPSHIRE EYES. they have been long enough in thewater, the child would be ordered totake them up, or rather allowed totake them up, when they would beimmediately wound tightly aroundwith a strong; bandage. The baii- -. U i - ?? Mother and dage is kept on until the next opera-tion, during which interval the childsuffers untold agony. In course oftime the growth of the feet ischecked so much that in extremecases, even when the person is grownup the feet are no longer than twoand one half or three inches. Ameri-can • missionary ladies in China aredoing all they can to persuade theChinese to give up the efforts have already met withsome success, as societies have beenrecently formed among the Chinesewomen of nobility to oppose thiscruel custom of foot binding. TheChinese account of the origiu of thecustom is that long ago an exceed-ingly beautiful Chinese princess had extraordinarily small feet. Verysoon all the ladies of the landthought they must have small feetalso, till, finally, those who did nothave them naturally had to go to^work and reduce them by artificialmeans. As that would be a verydifficult thing to do after they hadattained their full growth, in courseof time so
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