Show SLAVERY IN CHINA TO DUY BUY THAN TO 1 HUMAN CREATURE ft blar slave alrie mr Conse ses abas lav siave boy alere tir tho girl gretok from fr ton T so t so 1 la in lubak jbf rheta there are ar at a low estimate 10 M W human beings who are r la in servitude la in the celestial kingdom china bas has families and this makes on alar slave to every eight familia the averige rie Is greater in south bina bins where here nearly every one owna owns slaves 1 there la in scarcely arcely ic a chinese family ot at mean means in nankin canton ilacas or amoy but possesses aea one on or more dare slave girl slav slave boya boys are leu less cognon but the girls are found in every utrecht and in almost eatery bouie bout girls fetch frota xa 2 to 20 and arid upward in louth south china thy they are sold at any age from 3 to IS 15 and most commonly at 7 or 8 the prettiest prett leat girl girls are mot most desirable deal rable aa an la in cu cast of marriage or ale sale they will bring more to the family which buy buys them bloat of the lave slave girls are bought to work about the houie house it la in cheaper to buy a errant servant than to blis iiii one for if it you take a girl of 8 you can bare hav her bor services until the he li Is 15 getting eight year a of work for nothing but her board and clothe clothes and then the niell sell her fsr fr perhaps ten times our ordinal original price Theoretical lv there are no lares slaves in hong kong ai as it la Is driem territory but in reality the city Is I 1 full ot of them they are maid ranta ani and nurses of the chinese every small tooted lady need needs alarea slaves to help her about and in tho th tinnia of tho th rih abr thoro hr are ammy it Is act not unco iou to ind from twenty to thirty alarea slaves in to a ingle single family female sim kluba es are often presents pree enta from one nan man to an all other and not iL frequently they form a part of the bridal outfit they are commonly bought as a secondary condary ae wives and often as teacher teachers there are I 1 lo 10 in china where the girls are noted for their beauty the cities of yang chau and su chan ire aa as famous for rearing handsome young girl girls aa an la Is georgia in the caucasus fron from where rich turk turks ao so often obtain their wives there are persons in theme cities who make a it business of at railing raising slave girls they earch search the country about for kroml promising I 1 g ya young un 9 cirii girls and put them through a regular coune course of training they hare have farla where the blares slaves aught to sing play upon musical and to acquire the other accomplishments which added to beauty will cause them to sell for high price prices to the rich mandarins these girls are am chiefly the daughters 61 poor people or the of aut it li 14 for i a man to purchase his hi wife indeed there are more wires wives acquired in this way in any other every man in china baa has a right to aa as many wives aa as be he can maintain and a see andary wife Is I 1 cheaper than a hired servant the first frat wife Is to tho the legal one but the others bare have their rights although they are practically slaves the man who la Is addicted to the eilum habit will sell bla his children and not infrequently 11 ba 2 wife to auprly his appetite wires wives ire sometime sometimes sold by gambling husbands hos kus bands being put up on the turn of a card or the rake out of the cash at fan tan there are slave brokers in all the large chinese cities their business increase increases at times of famine and the starvation starr atlon which lately pre prevailed in north china caused many parents to sell their children N V ith somo sonio it was a question of allowing them to starve or selling them the result la Is that girl babies are a drug in the market think of buying a baby for or a shilling shili I 1 thia this Is the price which oua u ot of the infant asylums of shanghai la Is aad sald to pay for them this la to a it philanthropic institution and the th children are bought aa as a matter of ch artty and religion they are reared su rounded by christian influences are taught all sorts of domestic duties and when they arrive at the proper age are giren given respectable husbands the brokers as a rule do not buy babies the cost of rearing them and the risk of death are too great they prefer to hare have girls or boys of eight years and up ward chicago journal |