EDUCATING AN EMPEROR.
The Dowager Empress of China has issued instruction concerning 'the education of the young Emperor Fou-Yi. The Imperial edict orders the Bureau of Astronomy to select a favourable day during the seventh moon when the Era-' peror may enter the Imperial Ycon-King Palace in OTder to pursue his studies. "We furthermore order," the edict states, "that Lbu-Zeng-Chiang, Minister of the Empire, and Tcheng-Pao-Sen, Governor of Shansi, bearing tho honourable title of Vice-Minister, shall both become tutors of the Emperor. Thov shall instruct him night aud day with tho greatest care, and shall teach him all science becoming a royal personage, and also tho history of tho different countries of the world, in order that our Emperor.may grow strong in knowledge. They shall also explain to him from time to time the now administration ■ and constitutional laws, as well as all modern sciences, but at the same lime they shall- not forget to instruct him in the doctrines of Confucius concerning the means to practise the virtues and to govern tho Empire."
Some Japanese young: girls, ivhen they desire to look extremoly captivating, gild their lips.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1252, 7 October 1911, Page 11
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188EDUCATING AN EMPEROR. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1252, 7 October 1911, Page 11
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