Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-24
TO TALK ON CHINA
Dr.. Yamei Kin Will Address the
National Geographic Society.
RANKS HIGH AS PHYSICIAN
One Of Few Women to Practice Medi-
cine in Her Native Country.
BRINGS GIRL STUDENT HERE
Miss Hsui Ian Pal of Picking Ex-
poets to Take Degree at Johns
Hopkins University.
RANKS HIGH AS PHYSICIAN
BRINGS GIRL STUDENT HERE

A Chinese woman physician who prac-
| tees the healing art according to the oc-
| cidental school Of practice upon her fell
| low-countrymen in China. Mrs. Yamei
| Kin, Is to be the lecturer before the Ma
tional Geographic Society tonight. Pres
| ent Conditions in China will be her
| theme.
| DIR. Kin is one Of the foremost physi-
clans Of her native country. She has
| charge of three hospitals in Tientsin. Her
education was obtained from American
| missionaries in China. afterward receiv-
ing her medical training In the United
States.
| She Is now in the United States making
a study of the latest researches and i'm
prcvements in the American hospitals.
| The address to be made by Maj. Gen.
A. W. Greedy is postponed until the end
of March.
| DIR. Kin arrived in New York January
| ~. bringing with her Miss Hsui Ian Pal
| of Peking. who intends to learn English
and medicine in American schools.
Will Try for a Degree.
| The young woman has completed the
course of study at the Nurses Training
School at Tientsin, which is under DR..
kin's direction. When her English is
good enough for classroom work she will
enter John Hopkins and try for an NJ. d.
Miss Pal intends to be an American as
far as she can while among Americans,
and she made q start by changing her
Chinese first name to Augusta, after the
month of her BIRTH
DR.. Kin was graduated from the Wom-
ans Medical lnf1rmary, now part OF
Cornell University, in 1885. She took
hiuJ, tor Shf. r..
turned to China and began a reorganiza-
ton of the hospital system for women
and the hospital of woman nurses. She
is the head of the Hospital for Babies
the Nurses Training School. at Tientsin.
The doctor has revisited the United
States several times before and has lee
tured here. This time she made the jour-
ney by way of London, where she will re-
| turn two months hence to lecture before
| the Lyceum Club before returning home.
Is Known in Washington.
Dr. Kins English has no trace of ac-
| cent.
While in Washington she visited Mrs.
Franklin MacVeagh, wife of the Secretary
of the Treasury, and will lecture before
| the League for Political Education.
| DR.. Kin has been asked about woman
| suffrage in China. She has replied seri-
| ously. that while suffrage was not an is
| sue, since even the men have no vote, it
| is true that Chinese women are taking a
| much more active part in affairs than be-
fore. and that the men accuse them Of
| being restless.
There is the ping chuan' in China,
| which means the equal movement, says
the doctor, land which corresponds in a
way to your suffrage agitation, but it is
the manifestation on the part of the
| women of desire to obtain certain
1 y{nrhH
to those which men now enjoy. AS for
| this ballot which you talk SO much about
must confess l am not specially keen
| about 1t.
II expect to go to England in the
| spring. and hope to meet Mrs. Pankhurst,
because she seems to be a woman of so
much power. Then perhaps l shall under
| stand the movement better than l do
| now.
To Study Modern Sanitation.
Just at present l am eager to study
new methods of building and heating
| and sanitation. SO that l can adapt them
to Chinese conditions. OF course you
have certain materials here which we are
without, but on the other hand we have
some things which you haven't and labor
Is much cheaper with us.
Il have been for two years and a half
/
| at Tientsin, and l have had to solve all
the building problems as well as the edu-
cattonal ones for myself. l have thirty
six pupil nurses to instruct, and l am
| obliged to respond to all the outside calls
myself. because my English assistant
doesn't wish to undertake that part OF
the work.
| DR.. Kin discourssd on Chinese clothes.
why, embrolderies have altogether
| gone out in China" she said. There are
many sold over here. and you who buy
| them don't realize that you are purchas-
! ing our old clothes.
simplicity is the key to our fashions
! Even the men have foresworn the wide
flowing garments, and we all wear small
| sleeves
Some of the women are scarcely able
| to sit down in their aos We call this
| that / am wearing an 40.
| Miss Pals Gle thes are re lilly quite Diff
| ficult to spell. She Is wearing the Man.
| chu dress-the dress Of the conquering
| race-our Normans, you know. l am or
the real peorle-like the Saxons OF Eng
| land, So.