ual meeting of the above Societ wurch Room, Cathedra intere tea particip.uts took their departures. een quite might before tie lust dowa of:
cusivn ut Tare interest, especially Charles Dudgeon occupied 1 tternion the chair. In is large audience of fiom between opening the meeting he sail, that, having tive hundred composed of the ud had it not be, Ladysbip in robes added mueit the pupils uld ipal to pupils. The Laura is a school for high cls re representatives flom not classes, surround school hi proudly utlinn that the deed was accomplish ed without the loss of one day from school.
Later on during tue morning Mrs. Little addressed the teachers and pupils of the Davidson Memorial, one of our largest Mission institutions—an institution made up of three departments—the Industrial Schou Literary Department and ible Woman's Work." Here also the greatest interest was manifested, and better still, many unbound feet. were shown as practical proof of this interest.
At two in the afternoon Mrs. Little addressed, in the native church, the coming representatives of the Empire. Not onl did the University turn out inf force, but many of the scholars throughout the city come to listen, and to give expression to their desire to see the last of the small-fooled woman, The students of the university, and Shen Chih I, who is teacher in the Government School in' Soochow. The substance of their remarks was that the men of China must have large-footed educated wives, wives who could help them as foreign wives and mothers. Several addresses were made and undoubted i -terest manifested, and in tae conversat?n following the meeting it was estimated that at least four women. in every ten in Soochow had unbound their feet.
Surely the death knell of the small foot has been sounded, and in the march of progress and reform the Chinese woman will soon take her place and the "tit tat" of the small foot will become but an echo of the suffering past.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.