Kwangchow, or Canton, known throughout China for its culinary art, finds its best cooks among men and not women, in spite of the fact that kitchen work is supposed to the duty of every Chinese woman in an ordinary household.
When a group of Cantonese women opened a restaurant, which they called a "retreat" at Wal Sun Loo, last Saturday afternoon, a male chief cook had to be engaged, notwithstanding that every member of the "retreat," from waitress to cashier, was a woman, To be as good as the men in cooking, the Women's Rights Association at Wai @i Sano Leo, A Hongkong telegram to the Chinese press states that Mr. Sun Fo, son of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, has sent an' agent to Canton to ce-operate with Gen, Wu Te-cheng in the work of transforming the Bureau of Public Peace and Safety into a Police Bureau, with Gen. Wu as Commissioner-General of Police and Prisons. Mr. Sun. Fo, who was formerly Mayor of Canton, has promised to give his financial support if the number of police is strengthened.
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