New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-09-11


you remind me that your read
srs are interested In more than the
sublic aspects Of China. They would
know also Of the people, their customs,
heir manner of living. II CORE
snondents would write to their news
aapers as they do to their friends
4hsi, articles would be more readable.
v,u say aptly. And by way of sugges-
ton you state some Of your own Gu
ricsities: What kind of clothing do
che Chinese wear? What OF their cost
&; living? What of the woman ques-
tion. il there is a woman question?
II there is 8 woman question!
Are not the Chinese human? Male
and female. did He not create them,
tool They have women. Have they q
roman question:
Thia morning. in an interval when
had wearied of the calculations by
shen Hsien Sheug, my preceptor, OF the
mysteries Of the distinction between
lao and lao. after had said lao mean
ing fall" when meant to say lao
mesning odd" lao beng not lao but
lse-all of which, being concerned
with the bsne of tones" YOU do not
understand morning. as say
Shen Hsien Sheng RECALLED me in my
WEAKNESS with 3 cidbit from the gossip
among the pedsgogues. II concerns
Yank Hsien Sheng q colleague.
Yang Hsen Sheag has taken unto
himself bride In the custom Of his
people ne has brought her into the
home Of his own family, as another
branch Of the ancestral tree. Yang
Haen sheng, or Mr.. Yang, and Yang
IT. Tai. or Mrs Yang. are Of New
China now. They have gone to the
mission school; they can talk English.
hesitating. painfully correct English:
they are self-conscious in their new
vays and proud of them. Yang p,
Pc. or Mother-in-law Yang, is of Old
China old She knows only the pre-
cepts Of the sages, the Five Obediences
there enjoined on her sex.
Old Chinese Brides Place
Is Very Much In the Home
Thus II In dsrrea1 m or tho rood vv{ fa
remains st home in modest seclusion
When her husbands friends come she
withdraws Co an inner chamber. When
he goes out she stays at home to pre-.
pare food and tea and comfort against
MS return If she goes out it must be
Only with female members of the fam
lily; or II. on rare occasions. with her
husband. then walking discreetly and
With proper modesty little in the
rear. To no male save of the family
must she talk And never must she
depart from that proper reserve which
eloaks feeling or betray before other
any sign of affection for her husband.
To her mother-in- law she must yield
strict obedience as the need TO age
and wisdom and the fulhllment of the
iron exactions of the most sacred of
Codes that Of filial piety. For the Chi
nese bride sewers all relations with
her own family on her wedding day
Thereafter she is a member of her
husoai DIS family. 1t is Co his parents
she owes hlial piety; 1t is at the tab
Iets Of his ancestors that she must
Worship Her place, In short, is in the
nome far back in the home
Thus Is 1t decreed, but Mr.. Yang
and more especially Mrs. Yang, have
gone to the mission school. They have
learned Of the ways Of the West; more
particularly has Mrs. Yang learned of
| lie ways Of the Western woman. Like
timers OF her kind and general on, she
mas begun to c. afe under the myriad
'nou-shslt-ncts of the Chinese woman
MIRA Yang would go out with her
lnend Mrs Chung to the public gar
uehs for tea and gossip Mother-in-
law Yang forbtds, IL It not for a young
married. woman to go about the streets
accompanied only By another young
married woman. Mrs. Yang and her
husband GO TO mission school party
"gether, walking side by side and
even arm In arm. Il has come to the
saFs OF Mother-in-law Yang that they
aase deem seen at such occasions speak.
ing 70 each ether with familiarity
aotner-in-law Yang forbids: 1t Is not
proper for wife to attend mixed
'0c'ai gatherings: IL Is vulgar to faunt
.ae marital relationship In the face o.
'ae public; II is presumptuous for tn.
we 70 act before others as her hus
~hds equal Mrs Yang has been seer
psaAing tc 'S1s1 ...er It such gather
'ass Motf -r-,r-isa ang forbids: tn,
'ssoom OF Cd e,iers is evidence such
sSnonct is in.moral Further anil YET
more important Mrs. Yang dispute.
'ac dicta Of Mother-in-law Yang OF
nSssrs Of the home Mother-in- law
lang cries out at the blasphemv. II
.sf mind is scandal, In her hen IT Ia in
shstion. on her lips Is tart comn ent
As ancient proprieties have been out
ssa Hsr dictatarsAiY has been chal
-~ad
-. lang Remains Neutral
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