Business men would do well to pay attention to one present movement in China—women demanding suffrage, equal rights with men, full constitutional privileges and so forth. As a matter of fact some business men are taking much notice of it, for as soon as a certain amount of success has been achieved-in pursuit of these aims a noticeable effect on certain branches of trade is likely to be seen. One of the results of a wider education and with it the increase of power for the individual, is that the man wants to be clothed better. Homespun and shoddy are apt to give way to genuine woollens, possessing artistic merit. and wearing quality ies, and arguing from that we may hope to see the Chinese woman, once she has begun to get some of jiier rights, demanding better clothes. Even at present a very great number do themselves extraordinarily well in the way of rich and fashionable garments, modelled upon traditional lines but very often the material, also traditional, is hardly of a type to appeal to the aesthetic feminine sense. Woman has no chance to be eclectic in these days, but given more individual power, and the tendency will be in that direction, certainly int the matter of clothes, and then these fine fabrics which England can produce so much -better than anyone else will be in very great demand and there should be a profitable time ahead for merchants and manufacturers. Obviously from their point of view the woman's movement is to be encouraged,
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