Yesterday there appeared two edicts based on the recommendation of Yung Lu. The one directs that sons of the Manchus and Mongols shall be chosen to go abroad to study. The other permits Chinese and Manchus to intermarry, and, what is more surprising, orders the influential to use their persuasive powers to do away with foot-binding. This last is not due to any appeal from the Anti-Foothinding So: ity, but is the spontaneous idea of Yuny Lu, knowing that it was a reform which would please many, and especially succeed mn gaining the praise of Europeans. It is a pleasant coincidence that.this Imperial command f om the Empress Dowager direct to the Chinese women of the land should be issued on the day she received the foreign Indies to audience.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.