Again, riches have brought these Moslems of Eochow the ability to keep several wives and so the children multiply -zpidly, and they are willing even to purchase children from the Chinese to bring them up as Moslems. The wife is often from a Chinese home, but invariably becomes a Mohammedan on marriage, and so without resort to propaganda, and for the anost part without resort to violent methods, the steady increase in numbers of these Moslems goes on.
Bub in gaining the world they have to some extent lost their individuality. They know no Persian except the few words connected with religion that are in constant use. They have no written tongue their own, and in dress and habits approximate more and more to the Chinese. However, in their customs there is evidence of another current at work—the influence of their Mullahs, not a few of whom have visited Mecca, and know enough Arabic to read it, even if they cannot understand what they read. And especially since the Revolution and the consequent disintegration and centrifugal forces at work unabashed and unchecked, the line of cleavage between Moslem and Chinese has become accentuated.
Tao Yew.
These Persian Moslems of Hochow now to almost the last man have discarded the queue, still clung to by the Chinese all round them. 'Their women no longer bind their feet, and a local substitute for the' "veil" has been found and its use enforced. The "veil" consists of two parts; one is really a hood of bright green colour, shaped just like an ordinary inese "wind cap." The other is 'a piece of purple cloth tied round the top of the head and falling down to cover the face. It is so thick, that along the country roads the women either remove this face
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