Glamorous accounts written by travellers of the women of the Mongolian plains suffer a severe shock alongside the description given bya writer in. "Manchuria," the fortnightly publication of the "Manchuria Daily News," who treats his subject with the ruthlessness of doctor doing a post mortem rather than ana bby gallantries. guided He writes, have none the "women of more Couns {tles." They are far too. ignorant. to, ind necks are invariably when walling they take long steps and throw the whole 35 Wotgne if their bodies on to the heels So Their walk Is therefore awkward and Jo] erect and when standing they often 5 the entire weight of the body on fool. They also have the slovenly of leaning against anything they arg] can find within reach:
Those are brave words for a man ata] to say about women after centuries of politeness have developed the social habit of overlooking physical defects and infringing the sanctity of the George Washington code in regard to truth, but it cannot be denied that the writer must have devoted considerable study and observation to the subject.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.