To the Editor of the "Norrm-Cuiwa DANY News."
Sin-—As you will see, I have suecumbed to the fetal lure of an ale iterative title, being inspired by news items published by two foreign papers in Japan, With a war about Wuchang, a new extended boy= cot. movement' at Canton and Cabinet resume at Peking, it is certainly diverting to note that newspaper correspondents have seen fit to telegraph that bobbed hair is being banned in Chihli by order of the Tupan, The items in question are as fol-Jow:—
From the "Japan Advertiser, October 2.—"Tientsin, September 30.—Bobbed hair for women and girls is detrimental to good custom,' is the opinion of General Chu Pu-po, the Tupan of Chihli Province. The Tupan to-day issued on order prohibiting bobbed hair with severe penalty for fathers or brothers of those girls who. violate this prohibition, The Tupan has also ordered the. various schools in the Province not to employ women with bobbed hair 2g teachérs.—Nippow Dempo Service."
From the "Japan Chronicle," October "eking, September 30.—Deciaving it to be destructive of good moral practices, the focal educa. tional and the Police Bureaux have issued an order prohibiting bobbed hair among the girl students, which euston has recently gained influence among, the female population—
Eneléring my card, Tam, ete,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.