People who bob, shingle, ingle their hair, grow whiskers or otherwise find' means of varying their appearance may thank their stars that they do not live under Chinese rule, for we learn rom a Chinese Paper that General Chang Chung-charg, Tupan of Shantung, is. to tax at the rate of $1 a month all under his jurisdiction who persist wearing queues. It seems. rather late in the day to worry about thi Particular style of hair-dressing. Tt was a respected and apparently much beloved ore years ago, judging by certain old family retainers who stil persist in it locally, and conditions now vary very much from the! wild days, preceding the revolution, when in the Chang-Ssu-Ho Garden there were on Sunday afternoons great quave-cutting demonstrations Uy Young China, this to be followed after the dethronement of "the Emperor by nasty queue-cutting raids. If General Chang had started some such game as "Beaver," he might have achieved his desired effect much more satisfactorily, for the fact that the tax sounds' like oppression is the very thing ealculatfed to make people obstinate.—All these reformers, however, generally go about thei business in. the wrong sort of way. There was two er three years ayo an oficial at Hankow who resolved that Chinese Women wearing wide trousers should not be allowed to appear in public, apparently he considered. these te be the hall-mark of immorality, To-day wide breeches are all. the rage. "If, however, General Chevg fants to do practical good by his measures he ought to tax girls with bobbed hair, for this special fashion has hit his domain, Shantung, expecially hard.
Shantung has been b: for several yeara the great producing! centre for hair nets, and the bobbing fand shingling processes which have been going on have so reduced the demand for hair nota that the industry has been very hard hit,
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