From Our Tokio Correspondent, Tired—and what is worse—bored of trousered government, the growing tendency of Japanese women to-day is to question openly the ethics of the past. The boom and roar of the Allied guns that blew the Hapsburg and Hohenzollern autocracies sky-high not only caused a new consciousness to leap into life amongst the classes of Japan, but also awoke the women of this country from their stupor-like subservience to generations-old customs and engendered a feeling of restlessness, akin to rebellion, against the established social and family regulations that are to-day being widely condemned by them as obsolete. The unrest has gripped the younger women most, and schoolgirls in their teens are now discussing whether the "'virtues" of filial piety have not been so apportioned that the fair sex has to be content in this life with the intangible merits they lay wp for a future existence through the privilege of sacrificing themselves, in the interests of their male relatives, on the altar of filial piety.
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