To the Editor of the "Norra-Cuina Datty News."
Srr,—There appears to be, especially in the West, an idea that foot-binding ix China has entirely passe away. No doubt this impression is due to the tremendous stir which Mrs. Archibald Little and her ''Heavenly Foot Society" made some decades ago. Alas, Mrs. Little had to retire to England, and handed over the society to some apparently very enthusiastic Chinese. Unfortunately, after a decent interval, they made haste to: wind up the society and with it a very extensive literature which had grown up during the' agitation. We know very well that apart from the intelligentsia in the large towns, the practice still prevails in country districts as of yore.
Our Society often receives re4 quests for literature on the _subject to help those who are fighting the evil. The most recent letter is from south China in the region recently devastated by the typhoon. The Rev. E. S. Groesbeck says: "Tt may be news to many, but there are a large number of fishing towns along the coast, both north and south of Swatow, where foot-binding is still practised extensively. The difficulty which many women with bound feet had escaping the terrors of wind and flood has opened the way to start an
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