Slaughter of Girl Babies.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 5093, 1 October 1891, Page 2

Slaughter of Girl Babies.

Two Hundred Thousand of ra til cents Killed Every VeaiunChn.

(Cincinnati Inquirer.) ''ln China tens of thousands ofrWtfl born girls among tho poorer class® | thrown out to perish, and at SIMP saw a tower formerly used to facilitoleu infanticide," says Dr Joseph fjimK'l has recently returned from atifl'W trip of the Flowery Empire. tised in every part of China, but esp® in tho interior and in tho Loess® 1 ' As soon as we get many miles frost coast it is usual to see near a joss how place of worship a small stone toww® 10 to 30 feet high, with no doMi®", hole in one side reaching into ft pi' l " l centre. ~ > " The children that parents wish B rid of are thrown into this hole, ana quit lime soon consumes thoir little fori® is said that the priests take cliargo ol cruel work. It has been estimated every year 200,000 fcroalo brutally slaughtered in tho Empit c < Chinaman, being interrogated abfflii destruction of his recently-horn | said—' The wife cry and cry, but sill

same.' . , . " In every large city in China then asylums for the care of orphans \ ported and conducted by foreign®, save yearly from slaughter tens o sands of female infants. At H®:, which is 600 miles inland, I VI J.. Roman Catholic orplianago for that have thus been cast out top Mother Paula Vismara, the Lady » I* of this institution, informed me had received seven that day, 0 30 were brought in. „ "Of course these had never pe . signed to a baby tower. Sometim are found wrapped in paper R " Tj tho edge of the river. Sometimes ■ buried alive by the father, ~ living are dug up by someone brought to this institution. So y ? r •<,, are employed by the Mother S p j looking about for the little vieti 1 wards of a thousand are recci' . f year. Many of them of course after from the exposure and iiOr ' have suffered through being »,| and many aro boarded out by t tion in the town. w " Those who accept tho chnrg; brine the children once a week tion, and then, all being nfc> 5 ceive tho pay for maintaining ' n is an Italian charity, and 0110 ( estimable in China. During of its existence it has savml , say, 25,000 to 40,000 childre. fair proportion have grow n to It received considerable su l'l 0 f \rl European residents at Han-iv 1 there are about 120. within "Those children who remain premises of tho institution clothed, and, when old el,oU ? •' s 0 to sew/make lace, knit stocku gsother useful work. Ihey . where they come from or w 1 0 j were. When they arc " their feet are bandaged, ac general custom of all keep them small, that chances of marriage.