Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-25
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR APRIL 25, 1915

tne nlneSe w omen S Cooperative Assoc
citation. 1t was founded three years ago
with funds collected for the Revolution,
and has faculty of six or seven capable
and patriotic young women and an at
tendance of almost 200 students, which it
aims to prepare for college entrance re-
quirements. China is full of these mlsh-
room universities for men. There are
seven universities" in Picking alone, all
founded the year after the Revolution;
but this is the only one know of that re-
fleets the same recent ambitions among
Chinese women. 1t has an excellent three
story building, and pays its bills regularly.
1t is a sound institutions; although to
foreign nonsympathizers it was apparent
~ created out of the mirage of Young
China's hopes.
But Miss Sophia Chang Che Sophia is
from Russian revolutonist whom she
has made her heroine) comes from Honan,
province that is China's Scotland for
tenacity of purpose. At the time of the
Revolution she organized the mass meet
ings among the women of Shanghai that
We're able to send 100000 to the revolu-
tionary cause in less than fortnight from
the firing OF the first shot on the historic
tenth of October She is one of the real
pioneers of women's education in China
OUTSIDE of the mission schools there
are no medical colleges in China for
women; but in both Canton and Picking
women doctors and nurses are trained UNI
der Christian auspices. There are three
Chinese women doctors of conspicuous
talents, -women of whom any Christian
nation could well be proud, in Drs. Yamei
Kin of Tientsin, Mary Chang of Shang-
hal, and Mary Stone of Kiu-kiang. DR..
Kin is the head of the only native-con-
trolled womens hospital in China directs
school for nurses besides, and is a
Southerner, but strong Northern part-
zan. She has several times made trips
about the Western world, and has re-
ceved funds from Rockefeller in America
and from President Yuan, her close per-
sonal friend, at home. In the summer
months, when l visited Tientsin, between
$50 and POO women day We're coming
to her free clinic. The crowds in her
broad, stone-fagged courtyards We're elo-
quent of the grateful confidence with
which the women of this conservative old
city We're responding to the once unheard-
of audacity of womans doctoring.
Unlike DR.. Kin, DR.. Mary Chang and
DIR. Stone are both Christians; but DIR.
Chang is little Cantonese revoutionist
who led the plucky band of volunteer
nurses to Hankow at the first gun of the
Revolution, where she performed an in
credible number of operations-over 100
in ten days, and most of them amputa-
tons the battlefield. She is now di-
rector of the big native hospital in Shang-
hal DR.. Stone, Chinese woman of very
charming character, is the best known
missionary woman doctor in China, and
the capable executive of big Christian
institution.
THESE fine achievements have carried
their inspiration to every corner of
China, and. next to teaching. nursing and
medicine, attract from year year the best
of China S increasing army of girl students.
a recent American consular report points
out this change, which amounts already
to revolution in Chinese social life, in
the prosaic but conclusive opinion that
nursing in China as a profession for
American and Europnan wompn praSants