Modern education has decidedly} made Chinese woman a more desir-fable and pleasant companion, she knows more, she sings, she dances: and she talks more intelligently, at thesame time it has made her more extravagant in her taste. She needs a vanity case, better cosmetics and many other luxuries which were unknown in the days of her mother. It was not uncommon for the daughter to make a good use of her mother's wardrobe, which is today out of question, as fashion chances too} rapidly to make it possible. China in her economic backwardness, it} will not be to the best interest of the Chinese race for their women to habit and. taste I in richer countries.
What a modern gid spends: in willie suffi jin money to keep her mother con tented for one whole year. Why not Chinese women take a lesson from, Japanese women?
On, reading Chinese newspapers tone cannot fail to notice the inereising number of. divorce cases before Chinese courts, the majority of which are instituted by the. wife. Many rush-into court on the slight est provocation, The disruption of home life cannot be wholesome on the people as a whole. The judges fare making their urs, to Induce the parties to amicable settlement, and in many, instances meet with complete suc~, cess. What threatens to be an irreparable disaster in many a home ix thus made whole again before tne. breach widens too far. Chinese Inw fon divorce as it exists to-day, is al~ together too indefinite and "loose: People should be made to realise the fact that it is to be taken as a final resort after having exhausted all other known measures.
Kuomintang Legislation on
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