If a report reaching Shanghai is to be believed, the girl students vf Chekiang have decided to clip their! tresses with the idea of making themselves appear more masculine. Having learned something of the wiles of womankind, by reading 20 novels and history, we wonder when ther this is the real reason. Have they come under the glamour of the Battalion of Death, the unit which the Russian women raised to stem the German tide when the male army was melting away under the influence of Bolshevik propaganda? It may be, only let us not be too sure. For there is just the possibility that they may, under the: guise adopted, be trying to make themselves look even more feminine'
—by bobbing the hair for instance, which had a great vogue in England some time since and is still popular with several. And by all means let us have a continuance of the reform in hairdressing which has been noticeable among Chinese women during these past few years. By experiment, though with' per-hans some tribulation, they may be able to evolve something better than the conventional "bun" which crowns so much of the grey matter! of the world.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.