Kashing, Nov. 20.
Exercises just concluded at the Kashing Hospital on the gradual tion of the first female trained nurse were of unusual interest. Miss Dan, 8 member of a well-known family dating back to the Han dynasty, has at her own expense taken the full course of study with Dr. and Mrs. Venable and has done all of the practical work required in the Hospital.
Several local literati made congratulatory addresses, but the feature of the eccas was the eloquence of two Chinese lady speakers, Mrs. Chang of the Nor-School spoke of the new career open to Chinese women in medical work and dwelt on the benefits to the future homes of China. Mra.
Wang, head of the Girls' High School, spoke of the higher standards of life and duty for Chinese women and closed with a poem in classic style.
Only a few years ago, not one of these women would have been soon outside the walls of their homes; to-day, they are active in all that elevates Chinese womanhood and are successful exponents of Chinese scholarship modernized by western training. true that the foot-bound, illiterate mothers of China have been to large extent responsible for the timid and ignor rant generations of past ages, it is not likely to be so in future, if such women aa we are seeing to-day take the leadership and set the example.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.