Belgrade, May 24.
'A highly amusing conflict has Jansen in the Jugoslay high school world owing to the director of the leading girls college having prow hibited the use of face powder and rouge. The indignant girls theres upon elected a "Council of Twelve" to organize a regular revolt.
'A deputation was sent to the Minister of Education to lay the Jease before him directly, but the Minister, possibly dreading the me fluence of some of Belgrade's pretty" Jest girls, refused to receive them, ly angered, the rebels. publish: led in the leading newspapers of the capital a manifesto announcing that they were resolved to ret fon strike "until these al methods have been given up/ This remarkable document goes lon to say: "Rouged lips, polished finger-nails and undulated short hair are infinitely more important to us than Latin, Creek, or other useless encumbrances, We have no desire to.be as ugly as our grand~ ni others and we do desire to get iey certificates in less useful in husbands than physical So far the authorities have fail Jed to allow them Ives to be winced by these striking argun and have started proceedings to exe Pel all strikers from. the school, lo the general public eagerly.
yusses the incident and takes sides for or against the ivls, who fat Toast have succeeded in giving [the Jugoslay capital another social sensation.—Trans-Ocean Kuo Min.
18th Regulars of the returned by the loyal troops but as far as is known no casualties resulted.—United Press,
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