Show the blind slate girls of canton passing down the streets of cauton canton a at night igat in my attention was waa called to num lium lois bois of blind girls from 14 to 18 years 0 of f age ed in brilliant outer garments 1 ants with their heir faces rougel rouged aud and their hair bair ornamented with lowers flowers A woman carrying a musical instrument I 1 led several of if these girls and I 1 have since learned that they N were ere owned by this mistress who conducted them by night to the lowest parts of abo city and by their playing singing and in ia most disreputable ways she secures an I 1 income decomo through them that enables her ber to live in ease case and comfort I 1 have met inet noc no class lassof of persons that seemed bo pitiable as these blind singing girla itis it is regarded regden an affliction for a girl tobe to be born in a chinese family and when the girl is blind her life is ia one of ceaseless ceasel esq neglect and cruelty and often it if the family is poor the abbe is sold for a small amount to one of these dealers in human bodies dies who plies her nefarious business until death snatches her ber victim from her ber baltimore sun san I 1 |