Tientsin, July 7.
One workman was. killed" and seven injured yesterday as a result of the caving-in of a mine at Machiakow, near tangshan, belonging to the Kailan Mining Administration.
An explosion also occurred at another pit resulting in the death of one Worker and the. injuring of three. Due to the strenuous efforts of the workers, the fire was subsequently Brought under control.
All the injured persons were rushed to 'Tangshan' for medical treatment-—Kuo Min, was too expensive to wear their elaborate and costly kimonos to the Datterea, quake shaken temporary Dusiness' offices. Many women and Sirls, consequently, adopted thermore raciieat european mode of attire, and with this apparel came, natural-Ty, coating of imported facial cream, a dab of rouge and lipstick and the Clipping in some instances, of tresses, What was more important, the women liked their new surroundings Once established in offices, they have been averse to surrender their newly acquired "rights.
Women's Rights Again And why shouldn't the women desire to escape from the bonds whicn have for centuries tied them toa sorrowful life? Tt is declared that no women in the world are a {il-treatee as the women of Nippon. This probably is not true, but official statistics nevertheless reveal that one out of every ten wives of the lower lasses is "returned" to her home by her husband. In early days the figures were one out of every three.
While tne upper classes do not resort to such measures so. Ire quently, conditions have been and continue to be so bad among the Tower classes that there is much truth in the saying that all a man has do to get rid of his wife in Japan is the give ner the equivalent of five cents for car fare and order her t0 ack up and get out.
This will not seem strange when it Is explained that the etiquette imposed on Japanese women is really fan etiquette of fear, derived.rom the old-fashioned moral code which enjoined unconditional, and, therefore, absurd and abject obedience to a superior. A woman was told to obey ner father, husband and brothers under every circumstance. with "fear and humility."
To-day such obeisance is impossible especially when women extn their own living—there are more than a million" and a half wage earning women in Japan at present, and the Japanese lass is now fully awake to the birthright of her sex.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.