While in London, she had met Mr. S. 1, Hsiung, author of "Lady Pre-dous Stream," and had admired his work. Her collection of Chinese furniture was now adorning his apart ment, which she had lent to him at hhis request. Referring to Dr. Lin Yustang's book, "My Country and People," Lady' Halse said she considered it a great achievement, und a self-portrait of China, although she did not entirely agree with all he id, especially in regard to women. The fact, however, that Chinese themselves were interpreting their own country for the West, was a great step. In the old days, the East did not want the West {o understand it. Books that were then written only tried to show how dissimilar both peoples were, not where they touched on common ground. Now the East not only wanted the West fo understand, but was capable of Interpreting itself.
Afler an absence of eight years Lady Hosie was glad to be back in China, She said she was delighted when the smell of salt fsh assailed her on the Bund, for she then knew she was at home, slim, slinky modern gowns, and 1 hope that they will not develop the stick mind, By that T mean, living on their emotions, with no depths of intellect."
Before coming to Shanghai, Lady Hosie spent some time in Canton and Hongkong. "She was." particularly thrilled at the progress made in Can-fon, which she had not visited for Alton years.
'The work of years had yielded a splendid harvest at last, she went on say. The big streets were amazing and where formerly almost every child had sore eyes, she had now only geon five or six in as many days. Again, the number of young men's athletic and swimming "clubs was astonishing, especially when one recalled that 100 years ago, when some Britons went rowing' on the river, the Chinese authorities" forbade' them to do so again, because
coolles, they got" "red and sweaty ike "Rope of Steer"
Lady Hosie arrived in Canton three days after Gen. Chen Chi-{ang's flight, "and questioned as to the reaction of the Cantonese, stated that they all seemed to be relieved fat his departure, and happy that there was peace with Nanking at last. Among places visited was the Chungshan University, with its huge agricultural campus. There the feel-Ing struck her that Dr, Sun Yat-sen's "rope of sand" had truly became a "rope of steel."
In Hongkong she had sat with the Mul Tsai Commission when the interesting suggestion had been put forth that any child of uncertain family entering the Colony should be protected, and taken care of, as to its final ' destination, like any commodity which passed the Customs.
Lady Hosie, previous to coming to China, spent four months in India, which she left last October. There she stayed with her stepson, Mr. Alexander Hosie, who-was born in Shanghai and Isa well-known cricketer, From there she went to 'Australia where she stayed four months; during which period she gave many lectures illustrated by 65 lantern slides of the Chinese Art Exhibition at Burlington House. 'They were given before women graduates and teachers' colleges, arousing intense interest. The last dinner she had had in Sydney. wi even by the Chinese Consul-Gen She later visited Ball and Jay former she found disappointing, The daughter of the late eminent! sinologue, Professor W. E. Soothill, and widow of the late Sir Alexander Hosie, of the British Consular Service, Lady Hosie was born in Ningpo, China. As a child she was as one with the Chinese, their ideas and ways were as understandable to her fas the background of her own English home. Going to England at the age of five, she studied until she was: /seventeen, when she returned to China with her parents shortly after the Boxer rebellion.
Perceiving the need of western education in China, she returned to) England to attend Newsham College, Cambridge, specializing in teaching methods. 'Returning to Ching with 2 classmate, she founded a high-doss iris' school in Peking, but the re-Volutlon broke out a month late: Her marriage took place shortly. after and the school was taken charge of by her friend, She then went to the Isle of Wight with her husband and worked three years on a commercial map of China which is accept ed as the authoritative map to-day. She now spends her time travelling, lecturing and writing. being the autheress of several books.
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