New-York tribune., 1908-09-24
CHINESE PAPERS
Many Run by Women, Says Hong
Kong Editor.

sbadop-v r,u,ors OF woran's daily paper in
China have foated through womens puoiicauoils
in this country for several years. but It was lett
for Ii Sum Ling TO declare that there were not
one hut dozens, of women's daily papers IN emma
Ii Sum Ling wore purple satin brocaded morn
ing gown which would have reused envy IN 'iie
breast Of any woman on earth the morning ne PEI
nlitted the Tribune representative TO secure ms
IDEAS on women. The visitor is the editor OF Inc
Chinese Maii" Of Hong Kong. who arrived in New
York on Tuesday his way around the world
HIS morning gown Chinese garment thouSh
the cuffs CT the white man showed below the eose
OF its sleeves; and though he wore black satih
shoes and his hair in a long braid down his back,
ne smoked the cigarette of the white man ana
smoke the tongue Of the AngloSaxon without break
or accent.
There are four wonen's daily papers IN Canton
said he five or six in Shanghai. and the same
nroportionally in every large city in China Ihese
neners are ali run bv Chinese women. and women
do ell the work on them They give summary oi
all the news of the world Of interest 10 women
and YOU viii find the educated Chlnese women IN
formed on what is going on all over the "oiIu
They publish many translations OF articles oI ih
-erest IN proraen in foreign languages Ihen Chlla
is full of periodicals for women weekly ana ioii'n
fy publications Just as il is here
The new system OF education Introduces iH''
China includes girls municipalities everywhere
have opened girls schools, and one sees the sfls
soing to school in crowds every morning. AS YET
ft Is only the children Of the well 10 90 VINO are
educated but hope TO extend II as Idsl aS POS
sihle 70 all children in the empire
Then in the large cities there are schools ol
higher education for girls-not colleges out coIfe
spending perhaps TO your high schools 1heIe IieS
study Chinese classics. foreign languages ana gen
eral educational branches. There are somewhere
between ten and twenty such schools N canton
The pupils are usually daughters OF Tlch lhsh'
There is no dornitory system. They ooara IN
families when they do not live al home In Hong
Kong the Belilios school has existed for twenty
wears II is for Chinese and foreign girls. and IS
carried on by a board Of Chinese ana 1orelsn
women II has more than thousand pupils
'.An this is not new, you must understand SAID
the visitor: there was a period in Chinese MS
tory when the women were very highly educated
and OCCUPIED high social position Female edu-
cation feT into neglect. and it is being re-
surned that's all. 1t is necessary for the women
10 be educated if country is to advance. Modern
Cinnamon appreciate that. and are acting on it.
educated cannot compete with one in which all
how educated the father is, the children lose some
thing if the mother is not educated All the grad
uates of our girls schools marry at from about
sixteen to nineteen. We have not the OLD girl IN
our country said Ii Sum Ling, simply
Questioned as TO the women of the Occident, he
declared that they had too much liberty
What did you see TO make you think that?
''Oh nothing nothing. said the editor. hastily.
II was only a week in England arrived in New
York only yesterday. ! do not presume to speak
from personal knowledge. but from what l read
I think they have too much freedom"