The greatest change of all during the past 25 years has been in the Chinese. In 1903 practically every male Chines wore a queue and dressed in Chinese clothes; off went.about in chairs and wore their official robes, As. for the female Chinese, one hardly ever saw them, Mrs, Archibald Little was, through the. Tien Tsu Huai, doing' her best to got her Chinese friends to abolish foot-binding; bat most of the few women one "saw had bound fect. The. hobbling Chinese women of those days: could not. be compared with the smart, fashionable. alert Chinese women of day. Chinese men and worner were never seen on the streets together and, if there were Chinese Romeos and Chinese Juliets in those days, they did not exhibit themselves to the vulgar gaze. One who. has lived 25 years here knows' perfectly well that "the never-changing. East", though the phrase may sound well, isa myth. China during. the past quarter of a century has changed more, probably, than any other country. And not only has the change been an outward. ace: the very foul of the people seems ty have changed, he concluded.
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