Last your the president of the chief leading college in. this province established an Anti-Footbinding Society. In a short ti about 200 scholars enrolled themselves, and they solved the difficulty that faces every Chinese who has a daughter with natural by agreeing to intermarry their sons and daughters, Wealthy people and leading scholars took up the idea readily. The new Hruch-t'ai (Literary Chancellor) gave the society his blessing, and did a great deal to help this much-needed reform by timely distribution of suitable literature. It ought to be mentioned in connection with this subject that most of the girls, about sixty in number, in the Baptist Mission boarding school have unbound foet. Such progress in the far interior must be very gratifying to the lady who has done 60 much in massy ways to produce such a reform.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.