Extent of the Cult in Shanghai A correspondent from Hankow writes (and his letter appears this issue) deploring the fact that Chinese girls are taking to tight-lacing and the generally bad habit of wearing corsets Inquiry was immediately made to discover whether this was true in Shanghai and, judging from the consensus of opinion, it is not.
Many Chinese girls of wide acquaintance have stated that the practice is practically unknown in Shanghai among the better class of girls. One girl said that she knew a few ladies who wore corsets because they said it was more comfortable) to do so, particularly since their skirts tie about that waists. -Many of the returned students, who have adopted foreign dress, have' also adopted the corset of the Western world, and this is sometimes retained if, as they generally do, they return to. their native mode of dress, Some girls take to wearing corsets as a fad, it was said, but there are very few who do it at all. Either Hankow is more faddish than Shanghai or else our correspondent is misinformed.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.