Note 39 — Chapter XXII · HSAI-SHAN-PO TO SIAO-KIAO

I was present at a “drawing-room meeting” in Shanghai when Mrs. Archibald Little, of Chungking, took the humane initiative of establishing an “Anti-Footbinding Society,” which has now many branches, and is undoubtedly commending its aims to many men of the intelligent classes. The mission schools for girls are in general absolutely against the crippling process, and the wives of many of the younger Christians have “big feet.”