| Show WOMEN OF p FAR C Y Chicago Times Herald In every war ar between d nations or factions the women of the countries I involved take an intelligent part either as the for the wounded consolers for I dying or 01 in active agers of service as man afUs various schemes of leace boiling to keep the pot while fathers athers the husbands and are engaged In i deadly combat with the enemy To women in civIlized spheres It is given ghen to maintain rity nty of f the he nation at home the integ Inte of Villiam 1 Matilda the Conqueror I nl lc built a mag R a nt In cathedral whIle her husband was away the hands wars and with her own time embroidered the victories of the II on a roll 1011 of tapestry which eight at later lator In Is France In a museum l Miriam went out with fth her maidens I singing brother and dancing to welcome her victorious worn his wars It is 18 only the th savage whose women assIst In bloodshed and do no notable d deed ed of mercy or enterprise And the reason is not far to fInd The savage woman Is Her InstIncts her training have hae been on the lines of aggressive She has be been cruelty n taught that mercy Is cow ardice she does not spare her own shall she then have pity on the intruding stran ser ger Of these are the women ot or China who know or y the lessons taught them them fur centuries that everyone not of theIr I I able faith is an enem enemy dangerous and I o 0 j There are two events gladden the r restricted life of the Jn e h hr r marriage at an early ari age the other the tho birth of It a son gon No greater distInctIon awaits the Chin Chinese se woman In this world than to give birth to a son In the tho next she Is of little consequence as she sho is not suppo supposed ed to pos possess s a soul Her lot here Is not an one for or It she is of high caste she Is secluded In her hu bands home she cannot walk on her mutilated feet and If she does not bear her husband many sons she he is I re as a piece of useless furniture am and must content herself with gorgeous robes and an elaborate head dress A Chinaman desIres offspring for the selfish reason that hIs bones may be he is not a parent he cannot be an ancestor which would be a calamity In a country I where the consists mainly In sit ting on a tomb and reciting the virtues of the dead j Girls in China are accounted as house hold sh shadows dows and household sorrows Formerly the they were drowned like blind I IJ J kittens at birth but the missionaries are I responsible for the doubtful good of pro pre I serving their lives In later years The Christianized Chinaman does not object 1 to a 3 daughter although his acceptance of the disappointment Is in the nature of i I penance The rhe first high caste Chinese i girl born in Washington was that of the I Chinese Chine e minister who was stationed there I during President i tion ThE Chinese like women doctors I and the official engaged the services of Dr Susan E Edson who Introduced to AmerIca the first high caste Chinese bab baby born within its limits The anxious min mm Ister dres dressed ed in his robes of await awaited ed news of the event In his private suite In the lega tIon palace and as Dr Edson approached met her half way He scan scanned scanned ned her f ce a moment anxiously and then held this laconic dialogue with him asiC Bo Boy No Girl Yes Yeso o Native look down on their wives and in every w way r they can show their contempt for them believing that a aman aman man should do this In order to maintain his own supremacy Some of their mr lar convey comey this idea A man should listen to his wife but he be must not believe her herA herA A womans mind Is quicksilver her h ert is wax taX taXMen Men when they meet listen to each other Girls when they come together look at each other Women look down Ut to be looked baked at The lovemaking In China Is of the most Intricate and kind The contracting parties are betrothed in their childhood often oCten in their Infancy and sometimes before either is born bornA A rich merchant says to his friend when both are married You have a daughter I have a will then marry them or If I have hae the misfortune to have a daughter she shall shaH marry your our son Is that a 0 The betrothal of two imaginary followS ceremony and andi as the benediction Is usually the child children ran ren are brought rought up for each other and andU their sN second ond betrothal Is made another U of great feasting and an astrologer astrologer oger Is consulted to read the horoscope of the pair and set the marriage day One Of the strictly forbidden rites is marriage to toa a foreigner o The d dying ing request of a Chinese wire wife tp her l often takes this form When hen I am burled buried you jOU must come of often often ten to my grave and burn incense and you must not harm an any white butterfly or lizard for I may prefer to come back baek to you In those shapes when I am tired oi of lying in m my grave It would seem as if all the superstitions of the rest of the world had been banished to China whose kingdom they hold for their own A hinaman Chinaman Is afraid to look over his shoulder for he know kno I he will willee see ee a he never did see one has bas no no weight with him If he sneezes his wife Is thinking of him and he feels that all Is right at home but if his neighbor sneezes and he does not he believes him himself hImself self ne neglected and becomes mOr Jealous Quite like other women the Chinese has her little plans and schem and ad her husband to wear vear a wet c lef In his hat ot keep his shaven poll from sunstroke When en the towel cools cool he naturally sneezes and when he goes home bOrne commends his wife for thinking of him durIng durin his absence There Is little doubt that rather than see U theIr women fall Into the Uie c civilizing power powe nations the ChInese would not to slay them with the sword Anti And In view of a future similar to the past pC of Chinese women such a fate need not be deplored It would be one of the tragedies where Slaughter Is Gods daughter M 31 L RAYNE |
