Yiionan, Deo. 6, WOMAN'S EMANCIPATION, To well-wishers of Chins, anything tending towards the uplifting of woman will have For no speci interest.
hi ior and han lives of multitudes far away izing spheres of influence would associate beds of roses with the womanhood of the Empire. The of the daughter is seldom happy, and, unless the wife present her has band with sons, who will perpetuate the father's name and barn incom st after his death, hers not rendered unbearable, Woman is the drudge, the +lave of the mao, more in China then perhaps of any other country in the world bonsting each an ancient civilization, We speak, of course, of Chinese women—not of the womenfolk of the various tribeepeople, of whom 60 little la heard. To people in Europe, and ax Shanghai. the popular all females in the Middle Kingdom are essentially Chioese. It is not generally knowe that there are other races in the interior, whose women are as for removed from the Chinese
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