To the Editor of the Norru-Cuina Dairy News,"
Sir,—Recently, there have been going on among the Chinese press of Shanghai, discussions on this subject, pointing out the injuries to the human race that this practice by women is doing and urging women to bring about a reform. In the past this question has been brought up time and again but apparently women are not moved to take steps, Shanghai is the leading city of China in that whatever clothes in new style women in Shanghai wear, al] women in other cities are sure to follow, sooner or later.
ake, for instance, the' short jacket, the existing fashion: isn't it the innovation of Shanghai? Therefore, it is up to the women of Shanghai to take the lead in doing away with this unhealthful practice. I do not know what has been done since the writing of my last letter, but it seems to me it would be far more to the point had I appealed to the girl students, especially students who are now studying in schools such as the St. Mary's, Mclyeire, ete., and not to the returned women students who, instead of living at the same place, are' scattered, thereby making it difficult for them to take joint action.
At the present time the tide of the students' movement in China is high. If the girl students do it, there is no doubt but that they will very soon find that their sisters in Shanghai and other places are ready to follow them with just as much enthusiasm as in the case of new fashions.' A Chinese saying (and it may be the saying of other countries, too) goes, "it is only hard to make a beginning." But once a piece of work is started, it will give strength to the workers to carry on. The students should remember that since they have better chance and more opportunities than their sisters, it is incumbent upon them, as daughters of China, to do everything in their power to help in the strengthening of China. With a body of several hundred students in a school, it would be no hard task for them to take up the job if they will only try. Won't they do it?
I am eto., Hankow, Feb, 26, 1922.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.