"Back to the old virtues and forward to a new public service tha programme recommended the women of China by Princess de: Ling, formerly first-lady-in-waiting to the late Empress Dowager, Tzu Mut, and author of "Two Years the Forbidden City." Speaking at the meeting of the Rotary: Club at the Hotel Astor on "The Women of Ancient and Modern China," Princess sketched the out sta Women figures of Chinese histo and held out their personal virtues and their public spirit as worthy of being emulated by the present generation particularly under conditions such as now prevail in the Republic, "The women of aid the Prine: "But for centuries their cleverness has been applied chiefly to fulfilling family duties. In instances where Chines women have entered public li their service to the nation has wit-nested not only their cleverness, but a devotion to the welfare of their people almost without parallel elsewhere in the world.
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