New Year Societies: fees, 209; use of funds, 209; consequences if not paid, 210; gamblers' use of its funds, 210. "Odes, Book of," quoted, 237. Parents, care of in Chinese theory, 328, 329. Partial payments in China, 207, 208. _Peking Gazette_, 99. Pig-styes, 28, 29. Pits near villages, 24. Poisoning in China, 330, 331. Population of China: ignorance of the Chinese people concerning it, 17; official ignorance on the subject, 17; attempts of foreigners to ascertain density in certain districts, 18, 19; too great, 308, 309. Poverty characteristic of China, 310, 311; its alleviation, 311. Property, distribution of, 327-329. Proverbs: concerning teachers, 73, 74; school discipline in last month, 76; necessity of continuous study, 91; reading required, if one would know history, 99; funeral feasts, 192; girls _vs._ boys, 258; obstreperous women, 305; daughters useless to mother's family, 326. Punctuality a lost art in China, 151. Rain-making: gods connected therewith, 169, 170; iron tablets used, 170; why these methods seem efficacious, 171; detrimental influences, 171; punishment of unsuccessful rain-gods, 172. Reforms in China, how to be secured, 43; difficult in educational matters, 107. Relationships, assumed, 240. Religious societies, four characteristics of, 141; two varieties of "Mountain Societies," 142, 143; program on reaching the mountain, 144, 145; the secret sects, 145. Roads in villages used as shops, 35; "low-ways," 35; why crooked, 35; flanked by ditches, 36; in rainy season often rivers, 36; method of making new ones, 37; road-building and la grippe, 38. Scholars "not utensils," 93; economically they are useless, 94; an exception, 94; begging of foreigners, 94, 95; without adequate literary apparatus, 96, 97; their ignorance of history, 98, 100; of geography, 101; their conservatism, 103; lack of literary judgment, 104; ignorance of arithmetic, 105; strolling scholars, 107-109; functions at funerals, 133; in lawsuits, 133; subjectivity of, 313; gullibility, 314; riots due to their credulity, 314, 315. Schoolboy beginning his studies, 80; honoured in the family, 91, 92; a spoiled child, 92; effects of study, 92, 93. Schoolhouses, 75; their furniture, 75, 76.