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Basketless, stingless, with no honey- 
sac, and no serviceable nectar-gathering 
tongue, he is almost as helpless as a Chinese 
lady. 
Only she is purposely made helpless, and 
he is born so. 
A Chinese girl baby has as good feet as 
any baby, and they would grow as large as 
other people’s if it were not the fashion 
for the mothers to squeeze the poor little 
tootsie-wootsies into small ugly shoes that 
hurt the babies terribly and make them as 
crossas crabs. It serves their mothers right, 
{o0, when they are cross. Think of crippling 
them all their lives so they can neither work 
nor do anything useful. 
In China the people consider it a disgrace 
to work, and the rich people cripple their girl 
babies to show that it is not necessary for 
them to work. 
It is not considered a disgrace to work in 
the hive, however, nor in any other really 
civilized community. 
