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The minority. The speaker worn the ordinay cotton tunio "of the outmon soldier, which scandalises the officials, much as if one of our Field Marshals insisted on donning a Tommy's uniform The weather is perfectly lovely, the In Fent's case it is a protest against the days the sun shining in a clear sky, and seadelous waste of public money among just hary enough and just cold enough to the ruling classes. It makes an irresist remind you of Christmas weather at abla appeal to the people, just as the tale Home Last Sunday certainly was cheer of Sun Yat Sea's overdrawn banking leas. After lunch, I went for a walk on account wins the gympathy of the stu the East Wall. That end of the city is dent class in Canton. The people hung on, General Feng'a words and were ready rather quiet and deserted, sad sometime before I could fad any path to laugh or ory at his bidding! As far leading up to the top of the wall. When I could understand, his address was an I did And one, some youngsters, playing appen to the Church for prayer and
sympathy on behalf of the in the street, said warningly, "1 Mao! (ton cente). Just then a Chinese, who pokher. He said the popular idea of the looked like a down-and-out literary gen Chinese soldier was an uneducatedeman tleman, overtook me on the path and pull who carried a rife and who killed. His ed a bellatring hanging over a broken great idea is that the soldier should be down wicket gato. A starved-looking taught a trade so that on diebandment Hå gate kooper appeared and unlocked the can become a useful citiren instead of a gate. The gentleman made a profound parasite on the commanity. If, however, bow and passed on, leaving me to settle there is no helping hand extended, the the bill. The hungry man was grateful soldier is not likely to rise above his for his ten cents, and rotired to his shack.hopeless circumstancos.
on the wall. Presently not a soul was to
common
When he first enlisted, he shared a
be seen Looking beyond the city was a room with several other men, who had no frozen dreary waste, with a few mean ambitions and frittered away their days. dwellings scattered here, and there. The He himself was anxious to improve him only sign of life was a group of children self and read and wrote characters, only aliding on the ice. The cold killa every to have his chair-shaken by one of his asked groen thing-not even a blade of grass comrados. appears to survive."
"Why do you shake my chair Feng. "Because" was the reply I like to, and it is nothing to me what you want!"
The Imperial wedding has excited extraordinary little interest. The Man
The General is a huge figure of a man, chus have dropped out of the national life altogether. Their eclipse is intensified by but spiritually he confessed to be "only the diplomatic tolerance practised by the a child of eleven "having been... “bora Government, which wisely allows the again as lato as 1911. “ I am a child,” court, inside the Forbidden City, to do he added "among uncles and aunts, bro pretty much as it pleases. They sanction thers and sisters!" ed the sprinkling of gallow sand along the road which the Emperor's bride was to take, and eten lent the Police band to enliven the occasion with music
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According to rule, the boy Emperor took unto himself his first concubine the night before the wedding; and this lady helped him to receive the wife on her arrival at the Palace. A second concubine will be added, later: The two are known as the East and West gates and the Bride as the Central.
The boy appears to be a very normal He can speak English and the youth. desire of his life is to break through his prison restrictions and travel in foreign countries. The new Empress has likewise been carefully educated and can converse in several languages.
Some months ago at a picnic or Coal Hill we saw a gaily decorated chair in an out house. We asked the attendants whose it was, and they replied that it was the chair used by the Emperor's father when on visits to his son. It all Bounds so-artificial and unreal!
Several Chinese choirs interspersed the programme by singing. No foreigners were on the platform or took any part. except for Rev. Dr. Goforth of Honan, who was asked up as a personal friend.
Ferg's
idea is to make those in high placas work-if the private soldier is called upon to rise at 6 in the morning then the Captain must be up at 8.30, and the Colmel at 6 Even the man in the street now realises that a new force has come into Peking politics, and he watches. to see what will happen! As things are, there is nothing to stimulate any honest citizen and make him proud of his coun- The newspapers are try or its rulers. full of stories of Government weakness, While intrigue and scandal; and the public are sickened of the whole business. plenty of money is being wasted there is no money, to pay the troops and Foog's men have had nothing since January.
In the midst of inefficiency the Peking police, one of the most efficient bodies of men to be found anywhere, go sarenely on their way
The "spoon feeding" of the populace is carried to such an extent that The Manchus are gradually but surely they, are in danger of forgetting to look becoming poorer and poorers To meet the after themselves. In the ordinary Chinese enormous expenses of the wedding, the city lack of Government has developed Court had a sale the other day of crown kind of domestic Home Rule which jewels and works of art. Only the biggest enables the people to hang together. But dealers were allowed the privilege of that is quite unnecessary in Peking whare admission to this. Nobody else could the pollen control every department of have paid the prices demanded. There human, life from the day of your birth to are men in Peking whose business in life the day of your death, and insist that all is, to watch for opportunities like this and secure curiae and heirlooms for their wealthy patrons in America and olsc where.
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The Y.M.O.A besides reading rooms, gymnasium, and all the usual activities, rung a school for training Chinese young man in commerod and finance. The touch ing is carried on in English and 800 stu dents are learning shorthand, book-keep ing, etc.; and another 400 attend the school at night. ¦--
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to do. An old Colonel at Liverpool: admiration - and exclaimed to me, station who saw them, was moved to most astonishing sight in my life"
"The
December 4th
In the matter of Prostitution, this pareztal Government is carried to a hnë art. Nothing must offend the eye or jar There are lectures every Saturday at on the proprieties." No, glaas windows in the Union Medical College to which visit these houses must face the street, and ing doctors and furaca are cordially excesive decoration is not allowed. Na invited This morning, Dr. Maxwell, the one must get drunk or fight. No cus professor of Obstetrics, had aeted Mrs.tomer can be charged exorbitantly. Of course you cannot legalise vice without Bmyly (wife of Dr. Bayly, and herself a doctor) to give a talk on Infant Feeding multiplying it in other directions; and it Hor boy's wife and baby were there is a conservative estimate that more than to show what can be done by care and 10,000 waxen in this city earn their livi patience to reduce the terrific mortality ing in this fashion. In the licensed houses Every pre of the 1st class everything is done to make amongat infants in China. vious child this woman had bad, died it attractive and refined. A girl is intro-rollers are busy making a real trans young, because she had relied on arti duced by name and not by number to the formation. Before long we are promised ficial feeding, This one, was alive and visitor. She is always young and pretty fram lines as well. thriving because Mrs. Smyly had taken and beautifully dressed. Careful train the mother in hand after the child was ing has taught the girls to be modest in born, and induced her to dlacard other their behaviour and intelligent in con-
This afternoon the first meeting of a. milk and nurse the child herself. Mrs versation, and to carry themselves with
now Medical Society was convened in Peking. I was surprised at the numbers. of doctors who turned up, especially as I Smyly told us the story of a doctor in dignity and "reserve, New Zealand, who was making a crusade,
The spiders web is spread so skilfully
knew a great many who were not there. I should imagine that the total number to induce. mothers out there to adopt
hare runs aasily into three figures! A breast milk only for their babies. This that no charge is made for merely visit doctor was talking with a bost manning the bouse and having a look; and
There is rising up a class of people in great contrast to the old days, for I re- This a lonely sadent, far from home, need only facturer out there on the subject. gentleman replied, "You don't need to pay $1 to have one of these pretty girls China who despair of their country ever member Dr. Morrison telling me, when convince me I can tell the difference at sit and talk with him, or the young mau being saved from within. Officials and he was touring in South China, that once in the quality of leather if the Calf can for a fee invite her out to a dinner pectant officials may be satisfied with occasionally in the summer he was the has been fed from it's mother or fed party to help entertain or play domingoe. things as they are, but a great and grow only medical maa in Peking, and people artificially. How much more important This oril, like everything else since the ing volume of opinion, sometimes arti. would call him in for advice though he Revolution has been advancing by leaps intestinationes not looks to America had long since given up practics! Among and bounds. The newspapers contain and Britain to come and extricate tag this important stemme discussed this aftar Mrs. Smyly affirmed that every mother advertisements with illustrations, and nation from the cords of the tuchuns and noon were discoverica made by two doctora could feed her baby if she followed cor many public and official functions take their soldiers. They are quite insistent of the Union Medical College regarding tain hygienic rules I only wish his place as a matter of course in brothels that they don't want Japen, though Japan the origin of that terrible scourge, in would convince some English mothers in and it is difficult for the clean-minded would dearly love to take on the job. Chlon, called Schistosomiams, Hongkong and elsewhere the babies man to fight against custom sanctioned Their idea in that Britain and America caused by a little animal, living in water, Government should jointly take over the country for which bores its way through the skin of would be healthier and the mothers hap by public opinion sad
ten or twenty years, until the bandit the unlucky person who, when wading, pier! Bbe said that the rules were: (nuthority,
hordes are all brought under control and happens to cross its path. These crea- taires, almost too small to be seen by the regular exercise-3 miles walk at least a
Peking Union Church conducte ita
naked eye, pam through the skin into day, (4) mental and physical" repose, (11) ordinary diet, (e) plenty of water Services as premat in the big auditorium stablo Government is established. - points of fluid a day, (v) avoiding of of the Y.MOA, and this is usually quite constipation, (*) fresh air, and (v) full every Sunday evening There has There are no people in the World so the blood, giving rim to enlarged liver regular times of feeding, say every 3 or been the last few days, a concentrated amendable to discipline as the Chiness it and spleen and chronic ill bould
to collect funds to build a they have a strong lead, and the leaders intermediate host of this parasite was 4 hours What the baby gets, from its drive" mother, the first few days of its life is Church, and a far more than 250,000 hs have sufficient backing. It might not be discovered in Japan to be a particular a vital element which rentiers it immune, been promised. The architect's plans are necessary to land a single foreign soldier kind of mail; but up till now, the mail for 5 months, from several diseases, very ambitions add include the idea of a on the shores of the country. The real China that acts in this way has not especially scarlet fever. The New Zea sort of Christian Club The Minister is Patriots could do marvels if guaranteed been found. Last summer vacation, how laad doctor has now moved to London and an Englishman, the Bev. J. C. Koyts, and freedom from jealousy and intrigue. Pealever, Dr. Faust, and Dr. Maleny get on started a hospital to help him in his his book, as an eye witness, of the Revolu ple say that Kaifengfu, under General its tracks in the creeks surrounding 800- cruzado for infant welfare
tion of 1911 is extensively quoted by Feng, wie a Christian" city; and that show, which city has been called thi nail at all which harbours this post int Backhouse and Bland in their memoirs of when he left, the 30 enormous train loads Venice of China. It is not the same I went this afternoon to hear General the Court of Peking His in a man who of troops gave no trouble, en route to Japan This hand will become of great Feng address 2,000 Chinese Christians in understands China and the conditions of anybody while only 2 troop trains bring practical importanco,
ing in the soldiers of his sucosesor began the Methodist Church. Long before the the European's environment out here. time the street leading to the Church was
must it be for human babies
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to paint the place "rod," beginning at the station!
This is
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The
Another bit of remarch which will be a great help out here in the East, is the discovery by Dr. C. W. Young that it is make sure of the diagnosis of Kalaazar not neomary to puncture the spleen to fever, but the disgmes can be made by morely, examining the blood sccording to
crowded, and many, I think, failed to The V.M.O.A. building is on, Hatamen gain admission From where I eat Iould Street, which extends from the famous hot often catch sight of the General's Hatamen Gate to the extreme North Wall During the War, another Englishman Ince owing to a number of men stand. This stroot may become the most pro and I were in charge of strainload c ing in the aisle. Most of the congrega minant thoroughfare in Peking. For Shantung coolies from Liverpool to Shorn, Mon belonged to the comfortable well to several months traffic has been impeded aliffe, As a matter of fact the men, look de middle class, and the women were in with piles of road metal, but now steamed after themselves and we had nothing 'ortal tecknaque which he explained.