Interesting Lecture by Miss "Grace Yang general club meeting of the -W.G. was held an Tuesday sftere noon, with Mise A. Viola Smith, sident, presiding, and a programme, consisting of an interesting dis: cussion of Chinese women of the Present time presented" by. Miss Grace Yang, Executive Secretary of the National Committe, Y.W.C.A, and of music avenged by" the Musie Department of the Club, Miss Yang was introduced fo the large gathering as exceptionally competent to interpret the Chinese wanton's movement of the present time. In commencing her discourse the speaker compared three stages of Chinese woman's development, the first being likened to the droop-Ing flower described by the Chinese
4 woman, namely delisaey, frailty, having the bert qualen of modesty" and. other undssuniing virtues, The next stage was one ju which Chinote women hed. education "and advantages. The had not been a distinction. as of superiority or inferiority between Chinese men and women in this stage, Miss Yang said, as it had been' merely a question of the sphere of work involved, A Chinese woman' place was in the home and hor life radiated around that. The next period was one characterized by. the word, "responsibility,"
'At the resent time there was general "depression throughout 'China, the speaker declared, over the failure of political hopes,' and. the aspirations of various students. and others to come true. People of all classes were beginning to. realize that what was needed were lenders of real character, At all kinds of fatherings where there' were. dine cussions about the present-day eon. ditions, one heard constantly about the need for building character if a solution were to be found, Miss Yang spoke of the problems of Chinese" women in Christian Schools and in government positions, those in the latter posts being fre-avently inexperienced and. very Young" for the. responsibilities iailed. The work of the Y.W.C.A-an organization with 10,000 mem= hers throughout China, and of the courage and initiative of the Chinese young women interested in the work were stressed by her. Special re: ference were made also, to the various branches of the work, economic, educational, social, re= ligious and an attempt toward international understanding. 1
'a lonely pavilion and a stranger, man, approaches, it is not the ordinary terror a helpless woman fools alone that harasses the heroine.
Yueh-hua's dilemma becomes a mighty ordeal, because she, like all women of her time, had been taught from childhood not to look: diveetly fat male strangers, let alone occupy with tne, in a desolate place, the same pavilion! Lest the audience entertain the least doubt that she is in a most uncomfortable frame of mind, the heroine not only shows the spectators by gesture and dacinl expression her bewilderment but also sings in an operatic aside, a
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