One of the Chinese newspapers in Peking, where a vigorous "anti-luxury movement" is in progress, has Jconsideratle advice to offer to the Jwomen of China to check the injereasing imports of luxuries and semi-luxuries. The newspaper Jquestion assails the considerable volume of imports of this nature, and jeiticized the. women of middle and upper classes in the treaty ports "who [seem to be competing with one Janother in taking to things foreign. Chewing gum, which it says is not a necessity "but our modernist men and Jwomen have made it so because of their love of dancing." perfumes and cosmetics come under the journal's ban as detrimental to national wel-appears to be the concern of the provincial authorities, for "obviously, the Central Government has enough on, its hands to deal with the Reds the South, and if the purtult of these gentry to the bitter end isan expensive process, there can be not the slightest doubt that a successful eradication of this menace to the prosperity of the country would in the long run be a very good investment, even if present costs id appear to be large,
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