Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 1, Number 7, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 13 August 1870 — Page 3

[Hong Kong Correspondence of Boston Traveler.] GIRLS FOR KALE—A SCENE IN

CHINA.

I saw tho sale of a family last week for debt, where the husband and father was in California and perhaps I can not do better than to tell you about it. There were five children—three pirla and two boys. We had passed them three times in our chairs during the day, as thev stood beside the road dressedin their holiday attire of black. The silence they observed whenever any person passed, and

their

downcast looks

created curiosity on our part to know their business there. Arr Hung (our waiter) was called up and asked the cause of this parade. He said the girls, and perhaps the whole family, were for sale. We stopped and stepped out to lrave a talk with them, using Arr Hung as an interpreter. The mother was wrinkled and grav, and hung her head as if sl:o were afraid to look us in the face. Hut the children, with the exception of the oldest girl, looked pleasant and cheerful, and were quite pleased with their holiday attire. The oldest girl was sixteen and the oldest boy fifteen. So said the gruff old broker who had tho party in charge, and who seemed quite anxious to dispose of his wares. After a great deal of quizzing and evasive answers the broker told us that tho husband and father was in California and had neglected to pay his note given for his passage, and that his family were now offered for sale to pay the debt. Ho hoped to be able to pay the debt with

TJIH HAIJK OF THK

OLDKST

OIKLS,

but as yet had received no oiler. He said that the family became security voluntarily, and ho nover know of a case where they did not voluntarily otter themselves for salo if the note they secured was not paid. In reply to our questions he said that when a customer bought a child or person, the person was made at once the owner of the child, bodv and soul. No Chinaman would dispute the purchaser's right to do whatsoever he ploascd with tho human being he had paid tor. The boys would make good servants, he said, and in tho course of a few years be worth a fortune to the owner. 1 he girls would make good "armors" (or nurses as thev are called in America.) He would show us their physical beautywould make them sing and play tricks if we thought of buying. How much would we give?

rlho

oldest girl he

would sell lor four hundred dollars the next ono for two hundred, and the little six-year-old for fifty. Tho boys lie could not sell until tho girls were disposed of. We thought the prico too high. The market was

IT W I S A A W I S

and he must not think of getting over one hundred for tho oldest and handsomest, while for tho little one ho must not expect more than ten dollars. He sneered at that, and said that Englishmen always said that when they wanted to buv. While we wero talking a partv of'blue-robed Chinese aristocrats cunie up and began to inspect the familv. They opened tho mouth of the oldest girl, rapped on her white teeth to see if thev wero sound, pulled open her dress, thumped her ribs, laughed at her little l'eot, told her to sliofy tno white of her eyes, ordered lior to sing and to show them the trinkets which tho fond mother had given liGT as a parting gitt. All the while tho salesman kept up a const nit jaliher, in whioh wo. took no interest. Time pressing, we passed on, leaving the parties disputin&about.tho price, and discussing tho probabilities of their running away it taken to Hong Kong. After making our call wo returned the samo way, to ascertain'the result of the sale. Only the niothei and the boys wero lea. lho debt was only and £"0 of it still remainod unpaid. I have been often told by

Arr

Resi

dents in China that the parents would us soon sell their children as a cow or ,mr had begun to believe that such was the'ease upon passing tho group lor the first time. But the scene in the

The girls wero gono, and now must go also. Tho mother sat dirt with her arms around theoun^est 'wailing in a most piteous mannei, and as

Hung said, CLLLTST'• THK MRS

that sold her husband ati(-ket to Anierica at SMH), which cost them but $40. I ho broker sat listlessly by, smoking his pipe, and twirling his cane .looking as if it was the smallest niattoi ot business with him. The bovs were cryiiig,

Srnm.N CoNVKHsioN.-Cnc •/.ealous chaplains of tho Army of the Potomac called oil a colonel note for his profanitv, in order to talk al}7

kThanlain:

bv any

A Si Nori.AU

TF.RBF-TTATJTE

GENTLEMEN'S FAVORITES. These are of two kinds—the bright women who amuse them, and the sympathetic or.e who love them. But these last are of a doubtful, what country people call "chancev," kind women who show their feelings too openly, who fall in lovo too seriously, or perhaps, unasked altogether, being more likely to irritate and disgust than to charm." But the bright, animated woman, who know how to talk and do not preach, who say audacious things in an innocent way, who are clever without pedantry, frank without impudence quick to follow a lead when shown them, and who know the ditterence between badinage and earnestness, flirting and serious intentions—these are the women liked by men, and whose social success in no wise depends on their beauty. Of one thing, the clever woman who wants to bo a gentleman's favorite must always bo careful—to keep that half step in the rear which alone reconciles men to her superiority of wit. She must not shine so much of her own light as by contact with theirs and lur most brilliant sallies ought to convey the impression of being struck out by them

rather

than of being elab

orated bv herself alone suggested by what hati gone before, if improved on for their advantage. Else she offends the masculine self-love, never slow to take fire, and gains an element of hardness and

self-assertion

incompati

ble with her character of favorite. Not that men dislike all kinds of self-asser-tion. The irrepressible little woman, with her trim waist and jaunty air, pert, prettv, defiant, who laughs in the face of the burly policeman who could crush her between his finger and thumb and to whom ropes and barriers are to be skipped over or dived under, as the case may be—she who is all flounces and self-assertion like a little bantam, isalso most frequently a gentleman's favorite, and encouraged in her saucy forwardness. Then there is the graceful, fragile, swan necked woman, who a generation ago would have been one of the Delia Cruscan school, and all poetry and music and fine feelings, and of a delicacy so refined that nature would have had to be vailed and toned down to the subdued key proper for the graceful creature to accept. Now a days she plunges boldly into tho midst of '0 most tremendous realism, is an ardent advocate for woman's rights, and perhaps goes out On the rampage," on platforms and the like, to advocate doctrines as little in harmony with the kind of being she is as would be a diet of horseflesh and brandy. But she gets her following and men who do not agree with tier delight to set her oft'on her favorite topics, just as women like to see their little girls play with their dolls and report to the harmless dummy the experiences which have been read to themselves. These two classes of self-assertion are mero ays which amuso men but when it conies to a reality, and is no longer a play—when a man is made to feel small, useless, insignificant by the side of a woman—he meets then with something ho neither likes nor easily forgives and if such a woman had the beauty of Venus, she would not be a gentleman's favorite of tho right sort, though some of course would admire her immensely, and do their best to spoil and made a fool of her.

A gentleman's favorite of the right sort must, among other things, be wel. up in tho accidehCO of flirting, and know how to take it at exactly its proper value. She must bo ablo to accept broa^Qprnplinients, or moro subtle love-making, without either too

in ing

guard, nover to throw away and to conceal any nam .or of taxes that may bo gnawing at her nuith her cloak—thiskind of flirting, in which most gentlemen's favorites aro adepts, mi art that reaches almost tho dimensions of a science.—London Saturday

Review.

I vory much lUmul ot us certain that one of them

and siMMiMM now it wns

must iro. Hut we passed on and loft then. Vn their misery. We never knew whether tho boy was sold to a childless man to le treated as a son, to a 1 ortutfuese to be carried to the West Indies •under a nominal contract, or to a native land-owner to-*«e his slave. Hut that one of them was sold into servitude for tho sum of $fH), there can be no doubt. The girls were doubtless purchased for the vilest of purposes, unless thev had the ram luck to tall into the hands of some native in search ot a loiritimate wife. I am told that the price of girls has gone up withm a tow months, owing, perhaps, to the tact that a less number of emigrants forfeited their bonds in California than wis the caso six months ago. I was •diown four bright, plump, rosy appearing u-lrls vesterday, who were purehased less than a year ugo ithe wliole lot) fori?S0. Now they will sell readily for gaOOeaeh. the

Dr. Oautz, a celebrated German physiologist, has been applying himself tor some time past to experimental investigations for tho purpose of ascertaining to what extent internal refrigeration is injurious to tho system. Arguing from tho extent and number ot tho epigastric vessels, and their extraordinary inllueneo upon tho general pressure of the blood,. Dr. Gautz, hai joon led

to the

sun-strokes

religious interests of his men. politelv iwcive.l, and

Colonel:

n\ntu)'u7'

seat on a chest, wh- tho following conversation ensued: Chaplain: "Colonel, vou havoom of the tinest regiments in the iirniv.

believe so."

Chaplain: "Do you think vou pay .sullicient attention to tho religious instruction of your ..

llnn't

Colonel ^doubtfully): oil, I don

"A lively interest lias

leen awakened in

the.

?iiTnT lrus

setts fa rival regiment). The i^oru n.u hll'ssoli Un' tulHirs of already been bapHs^l.

ten have aireauv

outdone ment."

.,t ^9

Sergi'i 1 lm

rolonel («Mtodly): "J "L.J, (To the attendant) SerpMUit-Major, have fifteen men detailed

UKMKDY.—Burke

when

ever indisposed, no matter ,^'7 indis|H)sition wivs, almost

wato

had rvwurse to fll AH

tho approach of his fit« of Uli

rrixi, he onlennl ft kettloofwaU rto tnnt lmilintr. of which he drank much

cur—, .... lc "kept boiling, of law uunntities, sometimes as four or five quarts In a without any mixture or as hot as he could boar. was to pour about a pint at a basin, and to drink it with ft as if it had boon soup. Ji? said, would relax and nauseate, but not w#lr was tho finest stimulant and moft jHiwcrful restorative in the worlu.

conclusion that the ex-

tonsivo use of cold linnids must nocoslvn,, "iinuto arteries of tho epigastric region and the adjacent organs, thereby increasing tho arterist Pressure of tlio blood, and inducing .lcniorrhage of tho lungs, aiHplpxy, nn«l kindred diseases. A series ot cxper ments upon dogs seemed to give positive proof that such was tho suit. It has been suggested that the startling number of what arc

tor,u^(*

l'l(»s ANO PUKACMKU.S.--A tCW Slllldavs ago, as Mr. Needier was about coinnioncing hissermon, a stout, father-lv-looking man was endeavoring to liiake his wav through the crowd, within better hearing distance of the distinguished orator. At that niomen Mr. Heecher's voice rang out tho words of tho text: "Who art thou?" "ho art thou?" again cried out the dramatic preacher. ,,

The stout party, thinking himself in tho wrong, perhaps, by pressing forward. and believing himself to be personally addressed, startled the brethren and nonplussed their reverend chieftain bv sedately replying:

I'm a pig merchant from Chicago, sir. I hope you ain't mad. The^alnt narv chair, or else I'd a sot down

Plymouth Church didn't recover its serenity for ten minutes

FUKNVHMAN",

resolved to get rid of

life went a little before high tide to a lost set up by the sea-side. He had provided himself with a ladder, a ro^e, pistol, a bundle of matches, and a vial of poison. Ascending the ladder, he tied one end of the rope to the post and the other end around lite neck then he took the poison, set his clothes on fire nut the muwtle of tho pistol to his head, and kicked away tho ladder. In

kicking awav the ladder, he sloped the pistol so that the hall missed his head and cut through the rope by which he was suspended he fell into the sea,extinguishing the flames of his clothes, and tho seawater which he involuntarily swallowed counteracted the poison and thus in spite of his precautions, he remained unhanged, unshot, unpoisoned unburned, and undrowned.

DURATION OF LATE EUROPEAN WARS. In the Crimean war of 1853-5, Turkey declared war against Russia, October o. 1853. Russia declared war against Turkey November 1. Franco and England declared war against Russia, March 27 1853. The battle of the Alma was fought September 20 battle of Balaklava, October 25 battle oflnkennann, November 5. Sardinia joined the allies in January 26, 1855. The Malakoff was taken by tho French, Septembers. Sweden joined tho allies, November 21 and hostilities were suspended February 29, 1855. The war botween the Western porters and Russia, lasted two years, lacking one month.

The Italian war of 18o9 was begun bv the rejection of tho Austrian ultimatum by Sardinia, April 26. The Austrians crossed the Tichino April The French entered Genoa, May 3. The battle of Montebello was foughfyjMay 20 battle of Magenta May 30-31, and the battle of Solferino, June 24. The peace of Villa Franca was signcd July 11. Hostilities wore active buv ten weeks.

Tho Schleswig-Holsten war oi law began by the invasion of Schleswig by tha Prussians, February 1. The Prussians took Dupple, April 18, and Alsen, July 9. The treaty of peace between Denmark and Germany signed at Vienna, October 30. Actual hostilities covered a space of twenty-ono weeks.

The German-Italian war of 1866 was begun by Prussia, June 14. Italy declared war against Austria, June 29. The battle of Castoza, was fought June 24, and the battle of Sadowa July 3. The treaty of peace between Prussia and Austria was signed at Prague, August 23 and between Austria and Italy at Vienna, October 4. Actual hostilities between the belligerents lasted only five weeks.

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