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The children all seemed quite unrestrained & happy.
I saw no women with bound feet [[strikethrough]] but [[/strikethrough]] altho I saw many shopping.  All wore a plain dead black silk jacket & trousers to which there was not the slightest sex lure.  The temple of a medicine god next excited our attention.  This was situated near one of the city wells.  Here the superstitious come for advice & cures.  One of the methods is to shake out of a bamboo tube of sticks a numbered one & this refers to a pamphlet on which is written the treatment for the cure of the disease of the person.  The government does not favor this temple but puts its faith in the hospitals.  In one of the rooms are 60