Civil and Savage Life Compared. 



Jeannel, se vendent publiquement a Tien-Tsin. 

 Elles sont fabriquees a Canton. Au moyen d'un 

 melange gommorsineux d'une certain souplesse ; 

 elles sont coloriees en rose. Des albums vendus 

 publiquement representent des femmes nues 

 faisant usage de ces instruments qui sont attaches 

 a leurs talons. On en vend aussi comme objets 

 d'art et d'ornement ; celles-ci sont en porcelaine. 

 Des porcelaines peintes representent des sujets 

 excessivement obscenes ; on vend dans les villes 

 du nord de la Chine beaucoup d'albums ou la 

 na'ivet6 de 1'execution le dispute & 1'end^cence 

 du sujet. Le prix de ces objets est cependant 

 beaucoup plus elev que celui des porcelaines et 

 des dessins ordinaires." (" Jaccoud Diction- 

 naire de Medicine et de Chirurgie," p. 499, 

 Tom. 14.) 



Instances have been known in some provinces 

 of China, where six, and even seven generations, 

 have been represented at the same time in the 

 one family. 



Parents view with horror the possibility of 

 their children growing up without getting 

 married ; they therefore arrange their betrothals 

 while they are yet infants, and the children con- 

 sider themselves in duty bound to act accord- 

 ingly. Dr. Gray says : " Almost all Chinese, 

 robust or infirm, well-formed or deformed, are 

 called upon by their parents to marry so soon as 

 they have attained the age of puberty. Were a 

 grown up son or daughter to die unmarried, the 

 parents would regard it as most deplorable." 

 (J. H. Gray, " China," vol. i.,, p. 186). 

 Surely it is not to be wondered at that a race 



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