29th July.
The American Boycott, When the womenfolk of a country also jin to take an interest in matters affecting the public welfare, then indeed it may be ssid that the country in question is in a fair way of progress towards better things, It would seem that this American boycott has brought out several latent characteristics which Chinese hitherto have not had credit for. One of these is the intelligent interest Chinese women, old and young, have evinced in this question affecting the honour of their countrymen. About one hundred ladies we know attended the first mass meeting last week at the Wupén Girls' School Auditorium. On Friday afternoon nearly two hundred Indies, old and young, including number of female school teschera and their young lady scholars, members of several modern female schools here, beld a meeting in the hall of the Assooistion: for the instruction of commercial matters (lent.to the leches for the occasion) to discuss the American boycott, and among the matters decided upon was that.each one present would use her inf@uence with the male members of their respective families, and with their female friends who had not attended that afternoon to stand united and firm.in oarrying on the boycott to a successful
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