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Show mmmmmmmmmm KEPT FROM DECEIT BY VANITY. Chinese Women Balk at Wrongfully Adding to Age. A Frenchman, just back trom China, srjs that tho Imperial edict against allium Is a great blow to tho thousands thou-sands who were slaves to tho habit, and all sorts of subterfuges aro resorted re-sorted to by peoplo who think they cannot cxUt without It. Tho law provides pro-vides that peoplo over CO years old nio exempt from tho new regulations, and consequently tho number of patriarchs has Increased wonderfully. Sturdy men of 40 and 50 have declared themselves "old," and where naturo has made the deceit too evident paint, cosmetics, and other artificial means hae been employed to cheat tho eye. Tho government was not slow to discover dis-cover these frauds, and severe punishment punish-ment has been Indicted on many offenders. of-fenders. Strange to say, although women aro as much addicted to tho qpluni habit an men, not a single case has been discovered where a woman made he t self older In order to bo allowed al-lowed to Uho opium. |
