The Coming Chinaman Is at Hand
The coming Chinaman is at hand. Yung Wing, the agent of the Chinese Government, has just arrived, bringing about thirty boys, of the average age of twelve years. They are to be placed in families of respectability and culture in different parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut; never more than two in a family, and usually but two in the same town. They are just beginning the study of English, and provision will be made for their instruction in the rudiments of our language and our sciences. This is the first detachment of one hundred and twenty boys who are to be sent by the Chinese Government in this country, to remain fifteen years, giving them ample time for a complete course of study—academic, collegiate, and professional. Mr. B. G. Northrup is assisting Yung Wing in securing places for these boys, and we unite with him in the hope that these boys will find a welcome “in the homes which illustrate the best phase of American society.” The experiment which the Chinese Government has been induced to enter upon is one which promises great results; and no well-wisher of his kind can ever hope for a better opportunity of doing a service to Christian civilization than that which he would have in taking into his home two of these future mandarins of China.—N. Y. Independent.