The Governor of Kueichow has Just been making a tour of certain Schools in his province, and includ: ced in the addresses he has delivered has been an injunction to the female students not to allow their hair to be bobbed. At first glance one would put the Governor of Kueichow down as a diehard of the old= est conservative school, but actual ly to appreciate his point of view we must differentiate between the Position of Western girls who bob their hair and Ohinese girls, un the case of a great many Chinese girls bobbed hair suits the style of their faces admirably—at least from the foreign point of view—but unhappily there has been a distinct association between women of the bobbed hair type and the communist revolutionaries, euch those of Canton, As the Governoe of Kueichow is undesirous of having revolutionaries in his midst, equally dislikes bobbed hair, and we may take it that that constitutes the alpha and omega of hhis situation. It is, however, ale together different with the Western girls, for when at first they adopt. ed the fashion it may have seemed daring but was soon more and more adopted as a very rational measure. Although at Home mor are wearing long tresses to-day than a few years ago, for general convenience bobbed hair has won into favour, and few wish to discard it, Those who come to the East and have to endure hot summers cers tainly have no desire to go back to the old style, Yet even at Home there is a hint that particular aryles of bobbed hair indicate particular degrees of emancipation from old tradition, and it is said that the Eton crop shows that the wearer belongs to a very go-ahead section, We have no idea whether thin. s0 or not, but the fact remains that that style certainly suite some peo-pi
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