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Show WORKING TO AID CHILDREN. j At Washington there has just been held a big international humane hu-mane conference. The object of this convention was to exchange views on ways of bettering the treatment of children and aho of animals. ani-mals. There were delegates present from thirty foreign countries, as well as from all parts of this country. Dr. W. O. Stillman, president of the conference, made a strong plea for the teaching of humanity in the schools; that is, he thought more attention should be given to developing the finer nature of the children and teaching them to be tender toward all living things. Rev. H. E. Gilchrist of New Orleans thought this should also bo made more a part of church work. "Religion, civilization and humaneness hu-maneness should go together," said he. A delegate from Japan told of the very superior Japanese methods meth-ods of reforming vicious children, through careful education instead of through punishments. A number of visitors from Central Asia reported re-ported on plans for stopping the bullfighting evil in that part of the world. A delegate from China said that the practice of foot-binding among the women there was rapidly disappearing. So long has the practice been observed that many children are now born with crippled crip-pled feet and legs, so that it will take time to atone for this national sin. Women with big feet are now the fashion among the Chinese, and young men in marrying are careful to pick out wives whose feet have not been spoiled. Thus a new fashion is undoing the wrong that an old fashion did. |