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Volume 3 27 |
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VICTIM OF A CRUEL CUSTOM |
AN EMANCIPATED YOUNG LADY |
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| Bound at eight years old, at the cost of terrible suffering, her crippled feet seem much too small to be strong enough to support so fine a physique as this Chinese gentlewoman possesses | How European influences have modified Chinese fashions is shown in the skirt worn by this girl of good social standing, and in the shoes encasing feet that have been allowed to develop on natural lines |