A Corner of Cathay Studies From Life Among the Chinese
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At the time of the birth of Confu- cius, Hieh was the governor of Chow, a district lying some forty miles west of Kiu-fu, which was the ancestral home of the Khong family in the king- dom of Loo. In liis youth, Tlieli liad married a chief wife who had borne him nine daughters, and he had also an inferior wife, who had borne him one son, a cripple. When Hieh was over seventy years of age, and a widower, sharing doubtless the views of other men of his race concerning the de- sirability of liaving... male descendants, he sought a wife in the Yen family, in which there were three JBApjES HAWKED jSOVt TllE STREETS. MISS FIBLDE, IN HER LECTURE ON "THE WOMEN OF CHINA," TELISOP PBCtIl.IAR pUStOMS.' MlBS Adele M. PMelde lept|ir«d yesterday aftoi*- noon at the home of Mrs. W. A. Cauldwell, No. 16 West Plfty-fourth-nt., on "Th« Women ot China." The speaker cloaoly held the attention of her hearersi The manner of dlspoBlng of Chinese slrl bablss was first told of. It was said that they were taken to a foundling hospital, and when twelve days old were put In a covered basket and taken away by a huckster, who bore a long' pole across his shoulders, with a basket hung on each end, and hawked his wares about the streets, the price of an Infant being the same as that of a Spring chicken.
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