That development along these lines is desired by the Chinese, themselves is manifest from, the demand for physical instruction coming from Government, as well as from Mission Schools. The charm of the Chinese lady does not disappear because she has healthy, muscular body and if Chinese children are already among the most attractive in the world, what will the next generation be,—the children of these women who have physically developed along modern hygienic lines?
Anyone whose interest is aroused should pay a visit to the Y. W. C. A. Training School for Teachers in Shanghai and watch these young women at their exercises. It is a delightful experience to see the quick, lithe movements of their young and supple bodies, their bright, intelligent faces, whether) engaged in class work or out in the open playing such games as their mothers had never dreamt of and then compare them with the average Chinese woman who has not yet developed along these lines. It is difficult to believe that the one can have been the other. and yet it is just from average Chinese} homes that these young women have come.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.