New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-01
4 SCHOLAR FROM CHINA.
Miss Kang Tung, Of the Reform
Party. q Student at Harvard.

.rHor,es,ek7 Oh no. could never get home
sick said Miss Kang Tung Bac. quaint little
Chinese woman, she babe goodby last week at
Grand Central Station TO her numerous New-fork
friends and set out alone to pursue her studies
at Harvard The world is so big. there Is so
much to learn. much must learn before can
help my country. could not possibly get tired
or get homesick until ready to work on,
yes | do all | can now. / organize societies and
wake UP our women wherever can. but do not
vet know enough; must study one two three
four. five years more here before go oack 10
my country. Then | want TO spend one year more
in London to study English politics. want to
know how all the best people in the world govern
their countries and then / want to so home ana
help my emperor govern his
AT Harvard? Oh. there 1 shall study political
economy and history. ard all that will make me
know how to help my people. and especially the
women OF China"
When Miss Kang Tung Qn China the family
name is first in order, her fathers name being
Kang Tung Web speaks her face lights up and
wholly loses the immobility that belongs to the
rank and file of her race her eyes sparkle ana her
expression and the tones of her voice change
rapidly accompanying her varying thought When
interested she has all the American vivacity OF
manner and her grasp of local affairs Is lightning
like and adequate, but her English is still quantity
broken, though for the last three years she has
been the only Chinese pupil in an English school
IN India.
Miss Kang Tung wanted to enter Wellesley TINS
autumn but there was mo room empty for me-
came SO late" she naively puts 1t, so she VIII
have to wait till next year.
''Oh you American women can do everything.
said this enthusiast. You go everywhere that men
CO. you read mems newspapers and you know all
that is going on. but In China We have to stay In
a baudbox; we are not really alive. Yes at home
/ dress in home clothes. but like these better ana
would never live in China again II could not go
and come as please. Yesterday went through
your big gray prison, what do you call it, tho
Tombs? They all wore the same clothes, and sat
in the same kind of dark rooms. 1t made me think
Of women at home. Really we are not much
better of.
Am I writing anything? Oh. yes. write nearly
every month for cur womans paper at home. My
sister Kung Tung Nee is the editor OF this. and 1t
is published in Canton twice a month So few
Chinese women know how to read. but those who
do know enjoy reading the paper. Almost
all the writing in II IS done by women. No. we
| don't bother about fashions. The paper is more
! about what IS going IN the outside world and
what other women doing.
~? No 1 don't bother about fashions, either.
| I wear what l other people wear. what the
stores have to SELL oh. yes. like pretty clothes
| but l am so busy. 1 haven't time TO spend on
| them"
And yet this little seventeen-year-od enthusiast
! Is always well dressed. quietly. becomngly and in
good taste. This is Miss kang Tunss first visit
10 America and though she has only recently come
to New-York. she has been In the country several
! months. in California British Columbia and other
places where there colonies OF her country
men Everywhere she goes she tries TO interest the
! women and organize branches OF the reform
| ISOLATION OF which her father IS the head. 30
weung Wool is the Chinese name of this society,
, whose members already number from three 70 four
million some three thousand of these making their
home in this city. All the progressive Celestials
all, indeed, except the most rightly conservative
readily ally themselves with il. The liberal trans
! Iation OF 30 waung Wool Is Protect the Emperor
ociation' having it's origin in the plaintive
peal of his royal hghness ouorns Soo-e, to his