To the Editor of the "Norva-Cama Dairy News."
Sir,—Kindly allow me space in) your esteemed columns td protest against the somewhat. extravagant and immodest manner in which the fair sex in Shang-bai are dressed. It is revolting to see women and girls in broad daylight. with short skirts, low necks, painted lips, and last, but not: least, without sleeves. The girl without a sleeve is a common' sight in the tram-cars and in the streets of Shanghai. Our standard of morality must be low indeed when we tolerate extravagant and immodest: dressing.
We are wont to pride ourselves that. our civilization has reached' tg zenith, but we certainly make a poor show of it when we introduce our fairer sex immodestly dressed before our Asiatic neigh-hours. The latter, in the pre-since of the writer, had resented lately the sight of a white woman' without sleeves waiting for a tram-car in' Nanking Road! I Wwlieve I am voicing the sentiments of the majority of your readers when I say that the present immodest manner in which our fair sexes are dressed' is an insult to our standard of morals and ethics and should not be tolerated any longer.
I am, ete.,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.