Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — WOMEN IN STOCKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMEN IN STOCKS.

How the Chinese Deal with Women Who Need Correction. Punishment by the “stocks” is mostly confined to the women placed in the prisons of the Celestial empire. Some idea of how the women appear who are treated in this manner will be gained from the illustration, which is taken from a photograph. The stocks are fastened from behind; and although there is just room to move the head it is absolutely impossible for

tiny person to get out of the stocks without assistance. After a time the punishment is terrible, for the head being forced to occupy one position—as if it were in a vice—makes the women prostrate in most cases. This is a great deal worse when three or four are yoked together. The men, while in “durance vile,” are treated a great deal better than the women, although they are tried and dealt with in a much more summary manner. A Chinese prisoner is put to deafii for the slightest offense, and there is no doubt that if he cpuld save his life by so doing he would gladly bear the punishment meted out to the ladies of the Flowery Land who come under the ban of the law.

CHINESE WOMEN IN STOCKS.