"Here is a 'reader's letter' from New Orleans Times-Democrat, 22 March, 1896  (though from the reference to India...

Blogger's note. Foot binding was a practice which was almost universal in China for nearly a thousand years. It was...

I hated dolls as a kid and never went near them, though my mother bought me something called a Debbie doll - she was brunette, with a ...

From the “ Sheffield Independent” July 18 th 1896 : SMALL WAISTS AND EDUCATION. Nowadays, when almost every pastime is being...