The author of more than one well-known book on Chinese subjects has commited himself to the opinion that the evil of infanticide is non-existent in China, His acquaintance with the works of other writers might have taught him that the only veneral statement with regard to things Chinese which one can make without fear of contra: diction is that every general statement is more or Jes misleading. Whatever may the state of things in that part of the Yang tze valley with which he is acquainted there is no room for doubt that in other parts of Chins infants are still done to death in a cruel fashion.
Tu Chekiang and Fukien towers can seen on or near the city walls, into which babies are thrown. {a some paris of Kuangtung a baby basket" is hung in a sheltered position, and in or around it babies, liv jean, may often be seen. 'These' baskets fiom the Buddhist nunneries, the nuts are not a few whose lives have been preserved in this way. Found are supplied with inmates the iosptals. opened by natives or fore rom same source, or taken from, the breast of that anda nutrix, a Chinese roar side, As a matter of course the jority of the unfortunates. are girls; but on occasion a bey may be found) the latter e not far to seek, fae with fits, and the parent fail to cure il, they believe that te Mnonkes spirit' has possessed the child and put it away, lest the evil should return Upon themselves. It needs a strony reason like this to induce parents to part teen, the hopes bound up ta boy.
But exposure is the I well, as ces the child a chance ut life. Infanticide pre-and post-natal is still far frot unco than. A country woman, applying last week: for the post of amah, offered it as a recon:
that she had borne twelve ven of them daughters. fitted that only tse Racine and Ackerma heady under the 1 antique de Navigat ices ying (he lag. which will navigate the waters of the yangtze between Shanghai and Hankow: The capital of the} new line is partly French and partly Chin-This fact is looked upon as likely to velopment. 4 more incl freight which they interested. ave just been ordered for the new line at the arsenal at Foochow, which is under the {ofa Frenchman, M. Doyére, saul the vessels. Each vessel will be 286 ft. in length, ch, i rights held i Shy the Weihaiwei Syndicate, La. the Vou Vale.
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expenditure aul taken. ide poverty wrighter and so son all the day: While she is with fanily she is tow young todo much for her keep. "Thus, however, much you spend in feeding her (fig; the word used
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