Dame Edith Lyttelton on the Influence of Reform The tremendous vitality of the Chinese wor greatly," said Dame Edith Lyttelton, in an interview on December 4. Thus she expressed her belief that the solution to the problems of the vast readjustments in modern Chinese life lies in the young women of China. Dame: Lyttelton has been to the Kyoto: Conference where she became impressed with the problems and the possibilities of the solution of those problems of the omanhiod of China. She has made some very good friends amor the Chinese, bath men and women, both during her visit in Kyoto and. on her recent trip through Korea, Mukden, and Peking. Among those friends is Mrs. Paul Hsia, the chairman of the National Counci for the Y.W.CA. in Shanghai whom Dame Lyttelton met in Kyoto.
Dame Lyttelton believes that it is only by an acute perception of education, life, recreation, the new problems of sanitation,
and all living readjustments, and a willingness on the part of China's young women to tackle these problems and throw themselves into working them out, that any sort of feminine independence in this country may be achieved. Short and brisk, almost brasque, in her speech, business-l ner it is the contagious hope, and the nearly' definite promise, in Dame Lyttelton's belief that the women of will solve their own difficul-
The Charms of China Dame Lyttelton thinks that China is fascinating. She wa: pressed by her sight-seeing trip in Peking. While she was there she stayed ut the British Legation. But she is particularly impressed with Shanghai by the developments of intercourse between the Chinese and. the foreigner which, hitherto, Dame Lyttelton believes, hhas_ been sadly neglected.
Dame Lyttelton is an author of note, having written several plays, literary essays, and papers on Psychical Research. She is a member of the executive committee of the British Institute of Internation-at Affairs, and the chairman of. the
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