The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-01


 thinks it is the foreign style, but it isn't at all common among foreigners and you have perfect right to give a courteous refusal.' As Miss White tells the story: "A very much relieved youth went home and wrote his re-
 fusal as pleasantly as any such note could be written. Rescued by the 1 Foreigner would, I suppose be an ap- considerable advance from the period | only thirty years before when the whole matter was the sole concern of i the parents"
 Patriotism New to China. Contact with Christianity, and | especially the Individuality of Pro l testant Christianity, according to Miss White, has in the last few years deveI- oped a national consciousness in China where none existed before. | China hadn't the slightest evidence of patriotism. China always had strong racial pride, they were certain l that the yellow race was superior to Japan and China, if you told a Chinese 1 young man that his nation was being 1 licked by the little islanders, he didn't care, it wasn't his business. So far as the girls were concerned, they were absolutely indifferent, and more than 1 one of the girl expressed the wish that 1 she might be Japanese, because the Chinese were dirty and badly ruled" GIFTS tOuSnC HI Army. Little by 1ittle," Miss White con- tinued, .'as the boys and girls studied in our schools, they began to develop this sense of national consciousness The revolution against the Empress Dowager and Yuan Shiah Kai led by Sun Yat Sen showed us how great change had come. The high school boys joined the army. The girls in our Christian schools wanted to run away and join the army as nurses, fhav cd fo 1ohf in the army, and they did. They were enthused with the spirit of Joan of Arc, and were bent joining the revolutionist army, so they could Girls, fifteen to seventeen years of age, left good homes and schools to fight in the army
 What step that was" Miss White emphasized, when you consider that only twenty years before that they rather wished they were Japanese, Young girl in China have been finding themselves since that time. The revo- and China is still in the renaissance. The renaissance in any nation has many points of similarity to adoles- cence in the individual. In the in dividual at that time you expect all sorts of freaks and tantrums and dis agreements with parental authority So 1t is with nations. From the time of the revolution, we have had the
 
 Chinese boy and girl as you have here They have arrived at a sense of their own Individuality, and. do not hesi- tate to put their own wills in conflict with the wills of their parents and teachers precisely as your own boys and girls of 16 and IT do here.''
 Chinese Styles Superior.
 Chinese styles, Miss White considers a great deal better than those prevail ing today in America .sThe styles ' White Iaf nately by our Christian students. I'll say also that the Chinese young wo- man conducts herself on the street a great deal better than the young wo- man of say New York, perhaps I had better not say Bridgeport
 Family Life Secure.
 Miss White was asked if there were any evidences in China of feninism tending to destroy home life, as it had been accused of doing in Europe and America. Family life is much stricter in China," and China is much more conservative. Family life is not threatened by feminism but by some of the freaks who 1utter round the edge of the feminist movement. Those influences in China are working in an atmosphere so entirely foreign that they are taken up only by those poor fools who want the latest fashion in men in China, the women intelligent enough to read such things. are the product of Christian schools, and that sort of thing doesn't appeal to them much. I haven't met one Christian girl in China who has been led off in that direction. It would take a tremendous amount of courage for a woman even in America to become a harlot as a matter of conscience, and cannot imagine such a thing in China
 Soviet Propaganda Fails
 Miss White asserted that a flood of socialistic and bolshevistic literature particularly about the alleged social translated into Chinese. "1t hasn't taken root" she said, because China is too conservative. Bertrand Rus sell, it is true, has done a great deal He and his affinity 1ectured at some ! of the government schools-not the | Christian schools, and she talked of 1 what she called her beautiful re1a- on, but the natural modesty, the good l the strong sense of con- servatism and the sagacity of the Chinese women will save them from his menace.'
 Chinese travellers are more courte- 1uS than Americans or Europeans, I according to Miss White, and it is an Inheard of thing for a woman to be eft standing in a Shanghai tram.
 The High School Graduate.
 "One of my girls said to me- Miss White stated, that a girl who has graduated from high school is the free sst person in Shanghai today, a girl who was graduated from nigh school can do anything, and that s true" To illustrate her point she old of an encounter one of her form er pupils, Miss Gwong Fong, had with ! Chinese railway conductor who was rying to extort a sum of money from mother woman on the train. Gwong 7ong defed the conductor and told lin the woman was going to get off he train without paying him any oribe. When the conductor threw himself into a rage and refused, as Miss White tells it: Gwong Fong irew herself up and said: Do you xnow who I am? l am a graduate ,f a high school I am on an editorial 1 staff. You let her off the train or l. will report you in the papers," Miss V hite says the conductor was over lwed by the intervention of the '-high ;chooI graduate" and apologized and ct the woman off. "An incident like hat" Miss White commented, couldn't happen in America Do Il