Index:Glimpses into Chinese homes.djvu

Title Glimpses into Chinese homes
Author Elizabeth U. Yates
Year 1887
Publisher J. W. Hamilton, printer
Location Boston
Source djvu
Progress To be proofread
Transclusion Index not transcluded or unreviewed

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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Boat Life 6

CHAPTER II.

Homes of Poor and Rich 10

CHAPTER III.

Royal Palaces 16

CHAPTER IV.

A Merchant's Family 28

CHAPTER V.

Saved from Suicide 37

CHAPTER VI.

A Teacher's Home 41

CHAPTER VII.

Wanted— "Loaves and Fishes" 44

CHAPTER VIII.

Beloved Daughters — Unburied Bead — "Weary and Heavy Laden." 48

CHAPTER IX.

A Home op Rank — Wives — Opium — Ignorance — Indifference 68

CHAPTER X.

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A Country Pastor's Home — Naming the Baby — Dominant Heir — Bible Lesson 70

CHAPTER XI.

Want and Povbrty — Tobacco — Cash — Faith 78

CHAPTER XII.

One Woman's Attempt to Read 83

CHAPTER XIII.

Homes in Severalty 87

CHAPTER XIV.

The Old Lady who never Sinned — Chinese Wedding — Infant Diet 91

CHAPTER XV.

A Home School 105

CHAPTER XVI.

Prospective Happiness 109

CHAPTER XVII.

"No Place LIKE Home"— Poverty — Small- Pox 113

CHAPTER XVIII.

Catholics — Slavery — The Rich Young Man 118

CHAPTER XIX.

A Mohammedan Home 126

CHAPTER XX.

A Dying Woman 131