To the Editor of the "Norra-Cara Dairy News.
Sin,—Many of this community will remember when the Municipal Council opened the first Municipal School for Chinese boys on Elgin Road. Since that time, three other schools have been opened, I am sure that the Chinese community looks with gratitude upon those' schools, and both Council and community may well be proud of their achievements, But J want to point out a very one-sided state of affairs. Years ago, it would have been of little use to open a Municipal Schoo] for Chinese girls. But now it is different. We see schoolgirls on the street every day. Has not the time therefore arrived when the Council should seriously consider the opening of at least one good school for girls? An up-to-date community like Shanghai must see the futility of educating the future man and neglecting the future woman—the wife—the mother. The old saying "the hand that rocks the cradle, sways the world" is true to-day in China.
The educated young man of China needs an intelligent wife, and so it seems only right, that if, as a community, we recognize the need for schools for boys, we should also see the same need for girls, In giving education to the boys, we are surely not thinking only of the commercial value of education, but are also thinking of the larger value of knowledge—good citizens, and good homes. Education should tend for the good, not only of the individual, but of the nation.
In advocating the above plea, I am voicing the desires and feelings of many of the Chinese residents of this Settlement. No doubt. if the Council favours the proposition, there are public spirited Chinese, who would help in providing a site, Thanking you for the courtesy of your columns, Tam, etc.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.