To the Editor of the "Norra-Cutna Dairy News."
Sin,—In your issue of to-day you give prominence to an article under the above caption and for conveniently ready reference I will reproduce one paragraph American ex-soldiers are, if anything, more courteous than they used to be, for they have had much practice in the recognition of legitimate authority. The charge sometimes made against them, usually by relatives and fiancees, is that they have acquired a European way of looking at things, especially as regards women. This accusation has never stood serious examination, and if true in any cases, is 80 in too few to support a general indictment."
The italics are mine. Precisely what does the writer intend Europeans to infer from the words italicized? According to Cocker there is more divorce to the square inch in America than there is to the square mile in the whole of Europe.
As an Englishman I shall be much obliged if the writer of the article will "show me" wherein the treatment of women in Europe is in Americ: any way inferior to that m
Lam, ete., Har Yan, Shanghai, Jan. 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.