La vie des enfants dans les maisons chinoises . longtemps les rênes du gouvernement entre les mains. Il y a quelque temps, dit-on, un mandarin élevé a essayé de faire des fausses chefferies entre les deux dames. Il avait l'habitude de fabriquer des plaintes, qui hésitent chacune contre l'autre. Les deux Empress comparednotes, et ainsi décèlecedles dessins de thecourtier, et ils ont im-mediately ordonné himto avaler la feuille d'or, qui n'était qu'un simple passage de lui commander de renverser la peine de sa vie pour sa conduite foohsh. En 1872 Tung-chi, qui était un garçon de seize ans, était marié. Avant que Thenew Empress ait été annoncé beenpubHcly, le nombre d'alarge de g

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Child life in Chinese homes . long the reins of government intheir hands. Some time ago, it is said, a high mandarin tried to make mischiefbetween the two ladies. He used to fabricate complaints, which hesaid each had made against the other. The two Empresses comparednotes, and so discoveredthe designs of thecourtier, and they im-mediately ordered himto swallow gold-leaf, which was only a wayof commanding him topay the penalty of his lifefor his foohsh conduct. In the year 1872Tung-chi, who wasthen a boy of sixteen, was married. Before thenew Empress had beenpubHcly announced, alarge number of girlsfrom all the principalfamiHes in the empireWere ordered to be sentup to the palace, thatthe Empresses mightmake a selection fromamong them. Eumour said that some time before the Imperial ladies had decidedupon the girl who was to be raised to this honour. Her name wasAluteh, and she was the daughter of a member of the Imperial College, known as Duke Chung. The gossips of Peking said that the friends of Aluteh would gladly. PBINCB KONG. 86 CHILD LIFE IN CHINESE HOMES. have guarded her against the perilous honour which they feared mightawait her, for she was a girl of singular beauty and intelhgence. Itwas said that so determined were they to do all in their power toprevent the choice falling upon her that they placed rolls of waddingabout her shoulders, beneath her dress, to give her the appearanceof being deformed. But the Empresses were too clever for the anxious parents, for, having fixed upon her as the bride, they issued a notification to theeffect that although the youthful Empress had been deformed, thecouxt .physician had • been able, with much skUl, to remove theprotuberances from her back, and she was now so straight andgraceful that it was evidently the will of Heaven that she should bepromoted to the high position of Empress. The young lady who was thus exalted had httle of happiness_, inher short hfe, though much grandeur attended the wedding ceremonies.On the da

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