Sometimes she is laid out in the street to die
or to be devoured by dogs or swine, or a man
'may came along with a cart and pick her up
before life becomes extinct, placing her in it,
with other babies, dead or alive, to carry them
to a dump pile."
Did you ever in all your life, read a state
ment more monstrous? Plainly, the writer
meant to make the impression that the mis
sionaries found these awful conditions exist
ing thirty years ago; that they still exist; and
that the missionaries are rescuing the babies
to make Christians out of them.
If all the girl babies are killed, where do so
many millions of Chinamen come from? If
the boy child is always welcomed and the girl
child is always destroyed, how do the 400,-
000,000 of Chinks propagate?
Mrs. Frost should have said that, in some
rare cases, where the child is deformed, or the
parents miserably poor, a babe will be ex
posed, or strangled. That is done in many
countries, including Canada and the United
States. There have been quite as many in
fants put to death in the convents of Europe
and America, as were ever killed in China.
We will give you a copy of Mr. Watson’s
Life and Speeches for a new subscription to
the Magazine or Weekly. No trouble, why
not get it?
The Negro Who Shot Out the
White Man’s Eyes.
