"During recent years the women of China have attained a vast and heretofore almost undreamed Uberty. The privilege of public service, which formerly came only to Emprerses at Court, belongs now: to every woman in the country. To. those who are favoured with splendid educations, the opportunity is especially Inrge and F hope they mean to make the most of it. China is to-day in a critical condition and if it is to extricate itself and be-mie a great and powerful nation, the women must do their share "In the old days, China produced strong characters among her women '4s well as among her men—persons notable not only for their integrity, their wit and their resourceful boat for their good manners, too. Today there has set ina tendency toward Insolence among the young 4 well og a carelessness about the fundamental virtues. If the individual is lax in his morals, the nation is without strength and it ly time that the youth of this country took heed of the old virtues which prevailed in the time of China's greatness, lewing the famous women of the Princess chose the most distinguished next} to the late Empress Dwager, Tzu Msi, beneficence and wisdom; the Empress Kao Tsu of the Han Dynasty (B, C. 210) for her statesmanship and her persistent courage; and the wife of the Emperor Ping Ti who committed suicide in order to make her father desist from attempting to poison the Emperor and who made one of the most notable demonstrations of loyalty in history.
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