Show i Jj J i HI I i l I I a ti I s I THE TH SMALL FOOT aT TO TaG CO 0 THE ING ADOPTING CHINESE OFF ir THE WOMEN LOOSE BANDAGES SHOES ARE J TAK AND I I I I i I i iti J Correspondence il 1009 The N new woman promises to bo bl II a alive i live lIe figure I ur In tho future of oC Oil i ina nu na Today To l she shu Iw Is If practically a ano tiao no In tho the hauls hands of ot hor her husband cr r I It ti t 11 with fen Cew rights lights that men pro ro r to respect r She Shu Is a IL cripple hob hot rI g about on bound feet If It ih sh is 1 sin and she hc is not allow I ItS tS tip tl pi gs sm n tho streets str ts und If it pro pa II o the cc I w m an till the folds and ind does all alit orts ort Y t v ci cr cl The average II erase Chinese girl Irl 1 silo nia nil a nut one women worn III in m me B G hundred can all read and aad tIll writ Tho new nel c Is II to be lul ul of oC girls elite schools chool Us ts girls feet are arc to be he allowed their natural iJ al a sm th and Inri Its Us women me lire to 10 talk lik their t 11 II put part In hl the work of ot the world Gills Is aro arc employed c In the tho tel tea teat t phone offices of o and Shun Shan hul They The are arc teaching In to Inthe the thc kindergartens and schools and medical colleges have been beon c tah Q I to IU It them thom for tor trained nui nurses cs and antI K doctors d The Tho viceroy o of oC tSuchang has lus lusa hasa a I school in iii which w ich the boys and girls 11 study tuh together and the tho wane sonic Is II tiu tru of o I Tuan Fang Fan tho the viceroy Icoro of ot aft There arc several large girls Bills III schools i In hs Pekin and one of ot the Mane a e l sos SM a n member of oC the Imperial family established a 1 girls In Mon Mongolia golla golia All the thu missionary m on a 1 establish fc are now teaching girls and i IP 11 demand domand for Cor educated women as wiet j e Is hs fur fa I greater gloater than the supply THE MOT VENT MEN The sentiment against binding the theiN felt iN t is 18 very CI rapidly growing Owin The g i ut asp npr ss dowager t sent nt out oUI mi un t shortly before her hel death denouncing tIlL the custom and ond advising all the tho girls and woolen women or of the empire to do uw JW awry iy 1 with It II Chang hang Chi Tung rung has hils witto s r an un article on the subject und and before s he ho died LI Hung Clang Chung advised that ti J the custom to discontinued Many Man of oC tho viceroys and governors havo have sent t out proclamations favoring the abw of ot and nd a number of or I ill illI societies have Ime been beon started in the taw differ I ent eat provinces in iii favor tavor of at tho the natural not I f I foot toot for fOl all women In all the tho gills ghis schools school the government regulations provide that the pupils must como comp with their feet Ceet unbound and a system of oC gymnastic exercises has hns been heon instituted which are impossible Imp for Cor a 3 pupil In talking last night with ono of ot the high officials or of I was told that the would soon disappear and that tho the sentiment against it is 15 rapidly growing The Tho Thoman Theman man I refer reCel to was educated in the tho States Stales Said he heI 4 I have two daughters and one ono Is 19 years old Neither have bound feet feat s Tho The same samo is true ot of many I girls In my city and especially so with I the children of oC high officials alt all over the tho empire The edict of oC tho the empress dowager had a wonderful effect It has haJ made the big foot toot respectable re and the th ordinary Chinese parent will give gIe up the custom as soon as ns he ho finds ills hl l daughters can get husbands without It ItI I talked last night with a Chinese official who is worth or moro more He tells me One that none nono of oC his women are aro binding their feet and believes i 4 that the practise will gradually disappear disappear I 1 pear J THE TIIE MANCHU t f As It is now ro g is i confined to the tho Chinese The who are aro the reigning rel family of oC this empire em empire empire pire have never bound their feet teet and the great grent empress dowager and all I the th court ladles Indies of ot Pekin have feet teet which are oro loss less pinched than those of at atthe the average American belle They wear shoes of oC silk sUk and satin beautiful beautifully ly h embroidered and when they the go visit visiting visItIng ing log have gorgeous slippers shippers with heels in the center of oC tho the solo sole about two inches high Tho The Chinese woman has naturally a n beautiful foot Coot and the same Is true of oC the tho Manchu It is III smaller than that of ot the Cauca Caucasian Blan sian and the Instep is usually such that water could run under tinder it without touching the skin So far for I have seen nOne nono which corresponds s with the old darkey darker song about his sweetheart I And do de hollow ob her foot toot makes a n ahole I hole holo In III de grout I The Chinese women were binding their feet teet when tho the camo came in inand Inand inand and the men then wore long IonS hair hall all allover allover allover over their heads The com corn compelled compelled corns s polled them theta to shave their heads ex excepting excepting canting the t e pigtail ns as a sign ot of o sen servitude servitude tude and ad before long tho the practise be 00 became became came camo so BO popular that they the adopted it themselves ves It was wall different with the thc binding of ot the tho feet The Tartars have always denounced it and soy sev i X i iX iy I t r ru X i X t s y t y t y S y 1 X t 1 I I i I It Itt Iti Ith I X y t I i h IX I Iy I IA IA X y y f r r t 1 y y y y I y y X Y A A Ay y t a y X X X XA A GOLDEN LILY WITH THE BANDAGES OFF eral nral of the emperors of or the past have hae tried to abolish It Tile The custom among the Chinese began It Is said moro more than thana a thousand years ago having hating been in introduced Introduced Introduced by b an empress who had goats feet Ceet covered with hair and who bandaged them and thus feat bet the fashion She clothed them In yellow satin and an they the como came to bo ho known as golden lilies which is 15 tho the term for the celestial crippled of at to today toda today day da Of Ot course the tho people did not know of ot the deformity They Tile The thought the empress had natural feet and they hound bound up their children to make malte them her At any rate the custom of o othe the binding of oC the tine feet como came Into vogue and to this day da it Is common HOW A BOUND FOOT LOOKS No one who has not seen a golden lily Illy with the tho o bandages off can n appreciate c oP i eg how ono one o of these deformed f Chinese CI feet looks look In the satin shoe embroidered with gay boa silk or e silver stiver ver and gold it Is Ismore Ismore ismore more like a stuffed l club than a foot The Tho big bg toe only rests on the ground and the tho size of tho the foot Is measured by b this rather than tharl the full ull length of the tho foot I know of ot one woman whO vho has a afoot afoot afoot foot so small that she sho can stand on a u silver sliver dollar and the solo sofa will wm not come outside of ot the edges The wife of oC ono one of the tile viceroys has foot cot an inch and a n quarter long and arid the tho favorite concubine concu concubine concubine bine of another has feet Ct lt an un inch long and half halt an nn inch wide while tho the average bound foot Is la not over oer two inches In iii diameter where it rests on tho the ground Taking off the bandages ono sees that the part of oC the foot which touches I tho the ground is Js never more than tho the toe too I and heel hc and often orten only enly the toe too The TIle binding is done so 50 that tho foot Is 18 I crushed out of shape shapo Tho The instep Is thrown up and the too to and tho the heel I tied together while the other othor four toes are aro bent under tho the foot in the tho crack between them It Is very vor difficult to sc s sa a n Chinese girls foot toot unbound but I once hint had the tho opportunity to examine one It was In a hospital and I posed po d dIS as IS a n consulting physician Tho Tile patient was a high class girl of ot 16 who had sprained her ankle and she had taken oft off of the bandages to allow allo tho the doctor to dress It Her leg was not swollen but the foot Coot to me ne was a It horrible sight The four Cour small smaIl toes had almost grown Into the tho sole and there was a crack about three inches deep whore tho the heel heeland and big toe came camo together I could have slipped a silver dollar into that crack and tho the fles flesh h would havo hero hidden it Tho skin akin ski s over tine the instep was as rough as though It had been chafed with the cold and ami It was crackled and yore Fore Tho The girls leg was bare half way to the It looked like a D pipestem or rather a D baseball club It had luid l d no MN calf calr and the doctor told me that tho the thoI small mull I feet throw the th muscles of that part jart of the tho leg le Into disuse and that the log below the knee Is straight to tho the ankle The sight of ot the tho bare foot is so 50 disgusting that the thc women and girls are chary chor about showing their feet Ceet to the themen themen men moo of ot the fatally family Indeed I am told tal I that a husband rarely sees stes his feet although altho gh when husband nd and wife sleep leep I in the tIle same ame me bed their heads heMs rest at opposite ends of tho the cover HORRORS OF The binding of oC the feet teet begins at dif dlf ferent ages In different parts of China Chilla In this part of DC the valley alloy It 15 ls I started at tho age of at 4 I or 6 5 years ears Tho The little girl Sill is taken on the lap of her hr mother and a professional wraps one foot and then tho the other othI round and round with a long piece o of tape about half hale an inch wide Before Deore she begins she sho si o presses tho the four small toes down under the sole and then takes a turn of ot tune the tape about the big too at the joint Fastening this she sho stretches the tine tape back around the heel pressing it downward so that the Instep is thrown slightly up The Tho tape I I Is next carried to tho the front of ot the tho I foot and the small toes bound so o tightly that they tho ore are sunk Into the flesh The child cries during this oper operation atlon and Ind In fact she keeps crying r t rs great part of tho the time thereafter N a piece of or stiff stitt cloth Is wrapped rapped about aboul the foot and fastened on with strong atron thread so 50 tightly that the tho foot toot cannot grow STOW shoes or slippers are aro then added and ana over these moro more binding Is put so that tho the foot finally looks like a club As At the tho t child 1 grows the bandages g have havo toAb Ab etl l to be made tighter and tighter and tho children must bo be punished to keep them from tearing them off orr It Is a common saying that every eer small foot toot has filled a 0 hogshead with tears I have havo heard of cruel mothers who keep a club be beside beside beside side them at night In case caso they the cry ry from tram the pain in their feet teet but I doubt if It this is 16 the case caso except with the who have havo a bad rents reputation reputation tation in China Sometimes is ss given to quiet tho the pain ami and sometimes the girl hangs her legs over the edge of the wooden bedstead beds lead so as to atop stop tho the circulation and thus ease case It If H hi h binding is too tight the foot is liable to 10 break In two at t the Instep and the bones come through tho the flesh Some Sometimes times mortification sets In and tho the lees Ices drop off oft I have know of ot women losing their feet by b having them frozen rozen tho the lack of ot circulation preventing them from resisting the cold At a Canton hospital which I visited some sarno time ago agoa u o oa a woman who had lead lost her feet teet in tills this i iway way walked In irk on the stumps to bo be treated I One Ont of the live lIvo questions which l Is II Isnow now tho 1110 women of China Chinn Is 18 whether their feet feel can be bo cured If they I take off ef tho the bUl ures In the ease case of ot tin till older It II U is I Impossible although even een they can bo he relieved of oC pain Their lr deformed feet however cannot be mado made over again and they the must walk with writs canes or 01 hobble to tho the end of Well days The Tho feet teet or ot orthe orthe the tho younger lounger er women largely larel resume their natural shape although h they the have havo nono ot or the beauty bea t of ot chose hoso which 1 havo hao not been bound hound The un unbinding unbinding binding hns 1105 to bo be carefully done and the thc fet feet must be rubbed and massaged ed to the circulation It Is to Jade the women who have been binding their theIl feet Ceel to stop slop but the young eun girls are ar wild willi for tOI tho the hanl and that especially as It IK is isrow row becoming possible to get Iet a husband hus husband I band hand if ones ono root foot In is large Indeed the big hi foot Coot or rather tho unbound foot Coot Is 11 liable habit b to be he a n As a Chinese official said to me the men of oC the thc now new regime arc me anxious to havo their th go about with them and those who Iio have hae a chance to travel abroad would like their company This Is I rot not IO with the woman who has hns often to walk with witha a cane ana or to have servants support leer her ler when she sho goes goe out from Crom home SOCIETIES This Thill against again t Is being pushed by hy associations of na native native tive tic mon men and women In different party parts of China There Is it an nn organization In Canton Cinton known na ns tho the No society to which fathers Cathers bo be bolong belong long lonI They have hae pledged themselves not to lo hind the foot feet of oC their and to object to their sons marry marrying marrying ing girls with bound feet Ceet Many lan of oC the wives of ot tilt the members havo taken off of tho ho bandages and literature de denouncing denouncing n un tho the custom Is Iii being dis distributed dIstributed distributed Thore is a n similar organization In far western China Chinn on the borders of Tibet and for somo years lenss earll n IL propaganda propaganda propaganda ganda against tills this evil ovll has been car carried carried ried on nt at There Is an in I Englishwoman of ot Shanghai who has ha dono done more perhaps for tor the tho female I cripples of this nation elation than any an no na I man nun or woman I refer to Mrs Irs Archibald Little who has hag written several excellent books upon China It was she who originated tho the Tsu lu Hul society whish advocates na natural natural I tural lUral feet for Cor tho the women of ot China This was started about 16 1 years Y ago with branches all over tho empire It was wa supported by tho tile missionary women und and othor other foreigners and It has hns distributed tracts picturing the theolIs evils olIs of tho the practise everywhere It Il memorialized the throne and was Vas largely largel Instrumental In getting the tho empress dowager dowa cr to send out the big bigfoot toot foot edict Among other pictures made modo by b this society was tho the photograph of a bound foot Coot by the Xray process precess This shows how horribly the tho foot is deformed the bones being crushed out of SMALL S FEET VS YS TIGHT WAISTS I have talked with many nian Chinese about tho the natural foot Coot woman Tile Tho best hest of or them deprecate tho the custom of o foot binding and all ull say that It is bound to go At the same samo time they get even with me by denouncing the practise of lacing s so o common among tho the women of at the United States say sayIng sa saIng saying Ing that it is worse to compress the vital organs that tho the feet feol They Tho con consider consider sider Ider the tho small waist ugly rather |