Gathering fuel and manure, 246, 247. Girls and women in China: girls' inferiority to boys, 258; unwelcome at birth, 258; reasons for female infanticide, 258, 259; sale of daughters, 259, 260; "rearing marriage," 260; foot-binding, 261; girls' employments, 261; confined at home, 262; married daughter's return home and its consequences, 263, 264; daughters rarely taught to read, 264; anxiety about girl's betrothal, 265; restrictions after betrothal, 265, 266; evils of early engagements, 267; engagement cards, 268; arrival of bridal chair, 268, 269; "lucky days" sometimes unlucky, 269; delivery of bride essential feature of wedding, 269; dowry, 270, 271; birth of first baby, 272; children must be born at their father's house, 272, 273; faulty care of infants and children, 274, 275; mortality of infants, 274, 275; early senility of women, 275; incessant labours of women, 275, 276; daughter- and mother-in-law, 276, 277; abuse of daughters-in-law and consequent retaliation, 277-279; lawsuits in such cases are rare, 279, 280; result of bride's suicide, 281; a typical case, 282-286; number of women suicides, 286; suicide a virtue, extract from the _Shih Pao_, 287, 288; grounds of divorce, 288, 290; why women must be married, 289; prudishness in speaking about marriage, 290, 291; sons should be married before parents' death, 291, 292; marriage to epileptics, idiots, etc., 292; kidnapping of wives, 292-295; wives sold by husbands, 295, 296; "cheaper than an animal," 297; concubines, 297, 300-302; marrying the dead, 298, 299; men and women do not eat together, 302; husband and wife do not converse, 303; wife's twofold defence, 303, 304; hen-pecked husbands, 304, 305; classical teaching concerning women, 305, 306; Confucianism's seven sins against woman: lack of education, 306, 307; sale of wives and daughters, 307, 308; early and too universal marriage, 308; female infanticide, 308, 309; secondary wives, 309; suicide of wives and daughters, 309; overpopulation, 309, 310. God of Literature, 140. God of War, 137. Government high schools or colleges, 131. Government, weaknesses of Chinese, 220; its strength, 221. Grapevines unlucky in yards, 24. Greek drama in some respects like the Chinese, 56. Hare hunting in Denmark, 175. "Harrying to death," 185. Headmen, village: names, 227; qualifications, 227; duties and functions, 227-229; "ins" and "outs," 229, 230; why incompetents are not removed, 230; result of complaints illustrated, 230-232; facility with which troubles arise in village life, 233, 234. High schools, how different from common schools, 110; Government high schools, 131. History, Chinese, 99. History taught through plays, 66. Hospitable man described, 180.