About a month ago we wrote in these columns on "Chinese Students in England" and offered a few Suggestions as to how to encourage Chinese to go to study in Great Britain, Since then our attention has been called to some remarks made by "Looker On" in the correspondence column of the "North-China Daily News" of March 1. There is no need here to reply to all what our kind critic had to say, as the arguments were for the most part irrelevant, But we may profitably join issue with his last Paragraph, as follows Chinese students hav a great future before them, they have benefited—by Western education and it will extremely interesting to see what that training produces. "The average student on his return readily slips into the well-worn grove of "What is the use" as he abandons his foreign clothes for Chinese gown in winter. lo custom' Will not be denied and Chinese New Year is celebrated ith greater enthusiasm euch succeeding year in spite of the Chung Hwa Min Kuo!
In other words, are the Chinese returned students making good?
Question or Cannon SeNse.
Before proceeding to show whether these students are or are not making good, it is pertinent to remind Looker On" of two significant fallacies in his premises quoted above. When a Chinese returned student prefers the Chinese gown in winter (or summer), it is because the foreign garments are rot warm (or cool) enough for his purpose. Surely our foreign friends are irrational when, knowing the Chinese fur gowns are warmest in winter, they yet deliberately prefer to go about insufficiently clad. No doubt many reasons can be produced to defend the foreign _attitude in this matter, but the fact remains that the Chinese returned student is none the worse for his sojourn abroad as regards his common sense is concerned. For certain purposes European dress.to be preferred for its greater ease of action and more constant injunction to cleanliness: but for warmth in winter or coolness 2s well as comfort in summer, a Chinese gown wants some "beating." Such being the case, the returned student is only acting according to his best common sense.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.