The Ministry of Education, according to the Chinese press, has laid down five laws for all girl students to observe. It is stated that as many girls' schools are springing up all over the country there are numerous girl students who are leading lives which are too free as compared with their sisters. Hence the five laws are introduced and any student found breaking any of them will be subject to ex. pulsion, while the principal of the school with which they are connected will be punished. The laws are that no girl student (1) shall cut her hair short; (2) shall bind her feet: (3) shall engage in a free marriage (that is to say, she shall not marry without the consent of her parents); (4)—shall obtain leave without good reason or band herself with other girl students to go out and waste time on the streets; and (5) shall enter a ce-educational school after she reaches the age of 14.
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