To, the Editor of the ""Nowri-Cuina Daty News."
'Sm—There are a number of young people nowadays, [the ye young, who seem to imlat though their parents and rents' contemporaries have actual ly existed they have never really ked "lived" according to their acceptation of the term. It is true that, at Weihaiwei in the ferred to by Alet (as far back Jas 1900) young women who went [there for the summer did not go surf riding behind speed boats, nor bout in motor cars nor wear bathing dresses nor lie in ithe sun for hours to acquire an They were for growing families whose health and part young matrons with young
appintas was the frat consideration in addition they had certain household duties which took up. {good deal of their time dally. ey course their simple pleasures, fountains," played' tennis, and they tathed, walked, rode, climbed lbicyeled, There were more
wrrlages were rarely age Ju those days than, now fo carry food ete, for picnics, The day was pretty well occupied and there' was not as Alethea suggests so much time for gossiping and fqcarrelling nor were they the sort Jef people who indulged in this form lof entertainment. Feminine fashions Ihave changed considerably since then and though the bathing dresses worn then were neither 50 skimpy nor to tight ting as those fworn to-day they were, at least from
turesque and attractive nor did they, masculine point of view, more ple-Jers in displaying' their prowess handicap in any way the fair wear
like water, Several young women Jeven in those days swam long dis~ tances in the open sea A Lin Wire tite Past.
Ang. 26, 1992,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.