Dairen, May 25.
Fifteen thousand alert and interest~ spectators turned out at the Dairen Stadium last Sunday to see the outdoor Mi pageant of the elly's youthful and beauteous femininity in Gurythymies and dancing exhibition peclacle which has been staged since 1929. Tt was a delightful display of health, discipline and grace fof the girls of ihis seaport, all at-{red in: their Sunday best.
striking contrast in colour was apparent between the girls from the upper classes at schools, who were attired in the regulation black and White uniforms' and the summery, gaily patterned kimonos of those who had advanced sufficiently in age to have recently eft school. Both Chinese and ' Japanese girls were present to the number of several thousands, "The itis carried out their dances and" exercises with precision, en= thusiasm and tremendous buoyancy. Indeed to the onlooker it seemed that they got quite as much enjoyment from. taking their paris though they were spectators. Folk dances were lively numbers as the rightly coloured "kimonos uttered round while the young ladies swayed gracefully. An amusing item was Wwhen troops of tiny tots from the Kindergarten trotted past in some form of gymnastics.
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