Evening star., 1915-11-14
Grasping Opportunity Under
the New Dispensation, Says
Miss Fung Hing Lui.
WAY NOW OPEN TO THEM
FOR LIBERAL EDUCATION
Girls Are Eager to Learn the Best
There Is in Civilization of
Occident.

chinese women OF the present genef-
alton have a wonderful opportunity for
helping in the formation of a new
China, and they are making the best of
the opportunity, according to Miss
Fung Hing Lui, graduate of Amer
ican colleges. who is en- route to Can
ton, China, to esta the woman's
department of Canton Christian Col
lege, and who spoke last night at the
first social meeting of the College
Women's Club of Washington. D. c., at
the Raleigh Hotel
Miss Lui expects to leave America for
the intervening period in visiting SEM
Canton in February. She will spend
inaries and women's colleges In this
country for the purpose of studying
their methods, so that she will have
plenty of data to begin her work when
she arrives in the Chinese city.
Chinese women in the past. according
to Miss Lui, have been taught to work
with their hands, putting aside any
intellectual training. They have been
taught how to take care of the home.
how to embroider, how to make decora-
tive designs out of paper for the home.
They have been taught the manage
ment of the household affairs, the
servants, the care of the sick and aged,
the religious SlQe OIL HE, Uut liey He[s {
had no book training. she said. Some
of the mothers of China cannot even
read or write, although they preside
over a big household perfectly. They
have been taught to work and toll with
their hands, and for this reason, she
said, one does not wonder that they
have lacked scientific training.
Girls Are Eager to Learn.
The women of China, she continued,
have heretofore played a wonderful
part in the history of China in a, quiet,
non-conspicuous way, but things are to
be changed and the old ideals are slip
ping away 1t rests with the Chinese
girls of today to say what course China
shall take.
Chinese girls" she asserted. ARE
eager for everything that the western
girls have. They are eager to learn;
they want to learn the best and they
want to learn from you people of the
west.
when 1 left China my friends came
to me to tell me goodbye. Some OF
them cried. told them I was not go
ing to take long and that l was COM
ing back, whereupon they told me that
they were not crying because l was
going, but because they could not go
with me. The Chinese girls of today
have a wonderful chance for living In
formative period. They will have a
large part to play in it's development.
The Chinese women should be given
the best opportunity for the develop
ment of the country, intellectually,
morally and socially, and for the good
of the future of China they cannot and
must not wait any longer. but must go
right ahead with their work. In this
duty they will need and will seek all
the help they can get from their Amer
lean friends of the west"
Name Means Conservation.
At the conclusion of Miss Luis ad
dress, Miss E. H. Turner, acting presi
dent of the association, declared that
the name Fung Hing Lui meant Con
secration." She explained further that
boy was so much more welcome in
China than girl, and when it was an
nounced to Miss Luis father that girl
had been born he decided to consecrate
her to the new China and to have her
educated.
Miss Lui arose again and explained
that when she was born her father had
decided that one of the greatest prob
lens which China was facing in her de-
women. and therefore he decided to
consecrate his daughter to the new
China.
Therefore," said Miss Lui. amid
laughter. "he named me Conservation
and there followed six more girls and
three boys, all educated"
Miss Lui is a graduate of Wellesley
College and Columbia University. She
is being sent to China by the Vassar
College Alumnae Association. She Is
scheduled to leave tonight for Bryn
Mawr College.
Preceding Miss Luis address a re-
ception was held. and in the receiving
line were the following officers of the
club: Miss e. H. Turner, Mrs G. F.
Ferguson. Mrs. J. r. Weyrich, Mrs.
Thomas w. Sidwen and Miss Musa
Marbut.