LIBERATOR’S MONUMENT.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 4 (Supplement)

LIBERATOR’S MONUMENT.

Close to the Abbey and Palace of "Westminister .stands a monument, whoso (Striking beauty attracts the eye of all those who see '.it for the first time. It is a drinking fountain, fashioned by a master-hand from the choicest granite, and it stands as one of the most beautiful of England's memorials to the abol-

itioix of slavery, and to the perpetual memory of those world-renowned statesmen by whom this great reform was effected. The inscription, which is to bo seen guarded by rails from mutilation explains its purpose. The wording runs: “'Erected In 1803 by Charles Buxton, M.P., in commemoration of the Emancipation of Slaves in 1834, and in memory of his father, Sir T. Bowel 1 Buxton, and these associated with him —Wilberforcc, Clarkson, Z. Macaulay, Brougham, Gurney, Dr. Lu.shington,

CHINESE VIEW OF ANGLO-SAXON WOMEN'S DBESS.

Ny Pocn Chew, a Chinese editor who has been visiting New York, has given some candid and amusing criticisms of Anglo-Saxon women. “I cannot understand,” ho said, “why American and English women are .so inclined to criticke the 'Women of my country. They say the Chinese women pinch their feet to make them abnormal! v email, and hold up their hands in h'clv horror at the custom. At the .same time these critics are pinching their own feet until they can hardly ■suppress their screams of agony. “And they do not stop at pinching their largo feet to make them look small. They add to the crime hy putting them on stilt-like heels, so that in a few months their feet have become regular museum freaks of deformity. “Then they go on with this pinching hr., turns until they get to their waist. There they squeeze themselves into a vice-like things called corsets, and draw them up with n block and tackle until mere breathing is agonising. When your women fall sick they send for (heir* doctor, who tells them their kidneys are in their feet and their hearts in their months. Then they wonder how their physical economy got so disarranged, -and take a lot ol pills and lay their corsets aside to coax the little wanderers hack home. "Mo>t of your men also do many silly things in the way of dress. Thousands of them wonder why they have shed all ■of tlie hair off the tops of their heads. And at the same time they have used a shoe-horn to get a No. 10 head into a No. G hat.” “Did Scribbler ever make anything out of that book ho wrote?” “Nothing except fires in the grate.”