ilisation has not been knocking at the win vain, The empress dowager's walled dominions could no Unger stand out against the gentle and insinuating blandishments of the Anglo-Saxon shoemaker. Civilisation, it is true, had to finally knock down the yates, but that was because the dowager and emperor were hard of hearing or did not understand the taps of the allied power "The first fruits of the aside from the indemnity, is a roy decree which removes the—bandages from the fect of the Chinese Feet that have been tightly squ ummumbered years are to be unfettered! and allowed to spr 4 themselves in comfortable abandon aut old pair of carpet slippers or on. the soft mother ea rth nature intended.
And yet there are people in this eountey who ridicule the idea of om western el ilisation making any impress upon the customs of the Mongolian Empire. hour at, our commercial optimists wi dream of markets in the Orient. And yet here ave upward of 200,000,000 pairs of female feet suddenly uncovered to the gaze of the enterprising shoemaker of Lynn and Chicago, enough to keep all the shoe factories in Massachusetts going for several yenrs.
hose unbandaged fect must be shod. Hero is the Yankeo's great opportunity. He must take advantage of their desire to cast aside the cramped footwear t hoon the vogue in the Celestial Kingd Once freed, the Chinese woman will take quickly to the bulldog toc and military heel Of the American girl. And this is but the precursor of other reforms in perhaps the adoption of the walking And the Easter bonnet, all expanding the market for the products of eivilisati Upon the work of the Pan-Am Congress there is not much comment, but it is evident that Mexico holds a most influential position in the leadership of Latin-American thought. The *Springfield Republican" says
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