Amoy, July 31.
Taiwan young ladies are dangerous creatures to dally with or to deceive. The driver of a motor car living in Amoykang has discovered this truth. He lies in hospital in w sad condition; his recovery is doubtful, The young lady requested him tomeer her at the entrance of a narrow thorough faro running off the Taltong Road Just to talk over their love differences a pleasant, friendly spirit, She led him along the narrow lane a short distance to @ dark spot where four stalwart Taiwan friends of hers were waiting and they beat him almost to death. As Congreve said:—"Heaven has no. rage like love to hatred {urned, nor hella fury Hike a woman If the Taiwan pretty girls are dangerous and deadly, the Chinese girls some ways have been educating themselves to become useful. For Some time a movement has been in-ribating for the organization of a Woman's Ambulance Corps, but never has it got far beyond the talking] lage, "Another similar institution has, however, had more success: an off-shoot from the Amoy Maternity School. Over 100. girl students this summer have, early every morning, fu Chungshan Park, been receiving Instruction and drill in emergency treatment for accident cases and in hospital routine. The lectures given by their instructors, Drs. Huang Bien-dong and Chen Shaw-chuang have been elementary but wide in their scope and application. On the practical side they have included Knowledge of bandaging methods: and nursing, and short talks on anatomy and hygiene. The keenness displayed by both teachers and students says much for the benefit this movement will confer both to the family life of the eily and to the community as a whole.
Another woman's movement that has received new life recently, and has been revived from the moribund condition into which it had fallen, the Woman's Association. This movement began a few years ago when a young woman, purchased when young by a merchant, a servant in his household for years, then his mistress, was murdered under peculiarly brutal circumstances by the wife of the merchant. The movement had for its object the protection of women and children from the cruelty of man, but it existed nebulously with no authoritative organization to voice its plaints.
This year, however, more than 300 Amoy Women have resuscitated this:
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