Where Half The World Is Waking Up / The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions

by Clarence Hamilton Poe

CHINESE WOMAN'S RUINED FEET.

The lower picture shows the terrible deformity produced by foot-binding.

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CHINESE SCHOOL CHILDREN.

The upper picture suggests a word about the amazing fertility of the Oriental races--the Japanese, for example, increasing from their birth-rate alone as fast as the United States from its birth-rate plus its enormous immigration.