Hectic Wave of Reform in Cat ton: War on Superstition Faox Our Oww Conaesroxsext Canton, Aug. 16.
Writers are constantly observing} that the people of old Cathay are rapidly catching up. with Western ways, especially the womenfolk, Short skirts and bobbed hair have come into fashion, Chinese. damsels Ihave invaded the barber's shop and, perforce, tonsorial parlours have taken on an air of dignity and Fefinement worthy of the most Dalatical hair-dressing saloon on the Bther side of the ocean. In Cane ton, the sign "Specialists in the Cutting of "Women's Hair" has be conte 30 familiar as no longer to attract attention. One hair-dress-ug establishment one of the most Attractive of all—for the wording its signboard a little mixed up, fand in' two-foot letters proclaims iteelt to be the "Mere, "Females Hairs Dressing Parlour The transition from the old the new is not going on at a pace swift enough to sult some of the more enlightened and progressive spirits. Mr. Chu Ka-wa, Vice Chancellor of the Sun Yat-sen Univer sity, ups the most conservative 1 lenient when he initiated a move {to make all women loosen their tight clothes. "Housewives out making Purchases were stopped by. the Police, and then and there they had undo the fastenings of their snug-fitting' garments. Of course, the police could not keep up that sort Of thing, but, nevertheless, all that Bie. Chu said "about tightly-laced clothing being dangerous to. the health sank fu, and many women have since voluntarily discarded the garment,
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