As a missionary said to me: "He can't lie out that he got there properly when he carries with him such damning evidence to the contrary." [Illustration: THE DESCENT TO THE RIVER MEKONG.] In China immense power is given to the husband over the body of his wife, and it seems as if the tendency in England were to approximate to the Chinese custom.

Is it not a fact that, if a husband in England brutally maltreats his wife, kicks her senseless, and disfigures her for life, the average English bench of unpaid magistrates will find extenuating circumstances in the fact of his being the husband, and will rarely sentence him to more than a month or two's hard labour?
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