no Min News Agency" tells us that the Kuangtung Provincial Educational Department issued, on Friday, a circular order to edueatutions to the effect that "beginning from next academic form, ce-education will not be allowed in private, Government, or Provincial Middle Schools. In locali-
Periodically we used to have 1 serious agitation with the object of stopping the steam Iaunches. from excessive use of their sirens in the harbour, but we seemed to get no forrarder. And frankly one began to feel that Shanghai was condemned to be a city of noise, But after New York it really seems a city unusual repose. ties where no girls' middle schools are available, separate classes for boys and girls may be maintained." Tt will be remembered that the very} energetic and practical Educational Conference which sat at Nanking: at the end of May wes all against] ce-education. We speak under correction, but we rather think the boom in this system has begun to wane in England also; at least one does not hear nearly so much about it as one did a few years ago, But it is interesting that Canton, which, after the revolution of 1911, was the first to proclaim the breaking down of old barriers between the sexes, is the first to set them up again. China is refreshingly conservative, if one only gives her time.
The Jury System The Dancing Derby Judging by newspaper reports almost every city of any importance in the United States has its "dancing Derby." Apparently it is the sort of thing that one would enjoy seeing once in " while, although it must be a strain for anyone to have to watch people dancing for something like 150 hours. But imagine the antics that competitors go through at times, as witness the following from report of a recent New York Derby:—Helen Augusta Clark of Youngstown, Ohio, found her partner, Albert Kish, of Couple 19 sleeping so soundly on his feet that he no longer reacted to the dance rhythms. with his shoulders oF Knees, "She aroused hima, as she alwa} Rad done at such times, by Kicking, both his feet, but particularly the left has been suffering from Promulgated in 1923, the jury system comes into force in Japan at the beginning of October, and it is reported that the authorities are not at all confident as to how it will work. Between the date of the promulgation of the new law and the present day the Japanese Government has spent something like five million yen in educating the people to a point at which they should be able to fulfil their functions as jury-men, but it seems to be felt that the people are still lamentably ignorant of what them. As it is anti any year about 2,800 cases will have to be submitted to trial by jury under ¢his law, the Department of Justice is naturally concerned as to how the system wilt work. Probably' a broke into fancy dancing, hireling the Garden again and again with spectacular hoong and dragging Helen Augusta with him.
Another interesting little episode occurred during the same competi-tier Phyllis Colbert and Don Alfred Eeheveirria of Team 23. were rated among the iron horses of the Der and their elimination caused great jor among the other favourites. Phyllis had walked from Los Angeles to Chi-cage to attend a Derby there, but arrived too late. "She borrowed money come-on to New York." For six days she danced without showing a trace of weariness. Suddenly at 10 o'clock yesterday she flew at Don Alfred, het handsome little Spanish partner, attacking him sith sts and nails, took four men to remove her.
'Yet people in' Shanghai grouse when greyhounds want to fight.
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