We have received a visit from some of the ladies connected with the management of the Chinese Y¥.W.C.A., who are naturally distressed on learning that the rumour still runs among some people that the Association's work has a political tinge. This story, it may be remembered, was_current a veal ago when the Y.W.C.A. were making their annual campaign for subscriptions; and although the secretary wrdte us an emphatic contradiction, which we published, there is no' question but that i prevented money from coming in as freely as it would have done. The only foundation which the ladies whom we saw yesterday can suggest for the rumour is that one of them delivered some lectures on political science, as an. ordinary part of the curriculum, the subject being treated quite generally and without any particular application. Our visitors were also anxious to emphasize the international character of the Association, and that it does not seek to push the influence of any one country in China more than another's. We call special attention to these statements, because the Y.W.C.A. is doing splendid work in the general cause of the education of Chinese girls and it would be most unjust and regrettable that its influence for good should suffer through false rumours.
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