Tenghsien, Sung, July 28.
Femininity has never "been more manifest than in the effort which has been going on in Shantung for several years to discontinue foot binding, "The frst effort was not to permit any girl to enter government Schools unless' she unbound her fect. That had very little effect for the tirls just, did not attend.
'The second attempt was to deal with the men of the family—so any father who permitted the binding of his daughters' feet was fined—as many as 30 at once Would appear before the omelal. Much "money has been expended sending both men and women to visit the homes on the street and in the country. villages—Dut the girls would evade the inspeetors-'A new attempt is by making the Jaw that no girl under 20 years of age with bound feet can be married, In former years a bride with large feet was teased and ridiculed, but recently one of our church brides was married to a country boy, yet she was not teased because of her unbound feet, This Is quite encour aging and if the law 1s really enforefed it will soon do away with small feet, for the reason given by the women for wanting small feet is that the girl may get a well-to-do husband. But it is really the feminine desire for beauty—they are s0 acc tomed to the small foot in" pretty embroidered shoes, they cannot bear the sight of a call them "fs irl appear to them rough and une An Occasional Queue Shantung {s most conservative long all lines. When the removing of queues was enforced in Shantung the police had to seize the country People when they came to town and force the cutting of their halr—and even now very occasionally one sees country man with plaited queue.
'As an addenda to the scorpion tale we sent in our last' letter, some here' for the int of Scorp= in their garden at night using flashlights, "They were 80 successful the first night' that they hunted for two more successive nights with the result. "that 180 scorpions were killed—not the ones just hatched, but "fully" developed eres fe have plenty of ants here but termites and no pangolins!
Wheat continues high in price, but millet and kaoliang are coming on with the recent rains til some of the latter measure twelve "feet in height, The Chinese consider millet tone of the best of foods.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.