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AND MANY OTHER VALUABLE AND USEFUL ARTICLES.

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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, JULY 7th, 1927.

STRUGGLING TOWARD THE SUN.

JAPANESE WOMANHOOD EMERGES.

[By K. TAKAHASHI.}

calls them. In these estimates the majority of the girls' replion do not jack in self-esteem.

The women of Japan see the dawning of a new day, a day-preg nant with new hopes and new

Their failings are caumerated as aspirations. The morning is pul- sating with new life; a revolution follows: They lack the power of is taking place. Schoul girls have decision, are too often dependent never been so bright and vivacious in spirit; are deficient in courage: as they are to-day they are gain are seclusive but fond of gossips; ing in stature, freeing themselves are too casily moved and liable to from-nge-old shuckles that withheld be captivated; are very vain and them from participation in outdoor run after fashions; have no idea sports; young wives have never of the preciousness of time; are been so conscious. of the egunlity talkative; are fond of showiness of sex, and above all, the more and luxury; their standard of mature are also yielding to chang-education is low; their physique bug thoughts and habits. Women is poor; they are weak willed and have entered hals to struggle for wanting in self-confidence; they the uplift of their sex.

shun exertion and are destitute of the spirn of co-operation, as also of public spirit; and, have no poli- tical ideas-

RAILWAY POSTERS.

HOW ENGLAND'S HOLIDAY SPOTS ADVERTISE.

THE APPEAL OF THE HOARDINGS.

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A new season's crop of railway posters is up on England's station hoardings, but who shall presume, to plumb their balling psychology

In a tour of the London termini and Enderground (writes Olserver representativo) I made a valiant attempt, but in the end had to confess defeat. Why should the lure of certain places have to de pend on such capricious and even irrelevant things What makes one resort feature its sport, another its scenery, a third its history, fourth its morning coffee, a fifth its rainbow-for presumably it has one always on tap and a sixth its romantic lovers They never did these things in the days before the They poster became Poster Art. showed you a modest, decorous panorama. which might serve for almost any holiday resort 'twixt Land's End and John 'Groats, and left you to identify the place by the name underneath. Now the artist comes along with his cute, penetrating mannerisint, captures the inescapable, loads it will vehement colouring, emits a hap hazard gesture, and anys. Voila! Windyville-cn-Shingle! couldn't be any other place an warth, could it?

And

Indeed, it could not Here is a wonderful old windmill, and the Dame of the place is Upminster. Here's a girl in a red boating wrap, dangling her legs over a

Compared with the condition of their meters of the advanced West, the daughters of Japau may appear young in thought, old in manner Who says that a new spirit is nind unsettled in spirit, but they not moving in the mind of young, thirst for emancipation and pro- daughters who will to-morrow make gress while still yearning for the the woman's world of Japan what idealism, the poetry and traditions is. true of them in school being of bygone days. They are, how true also of their sisters in offices, ever, like a new race to the gray-shops and factories 1 haired mothers of the land. Their But what of the woman's world independence would shock depart of to-day Wives and mothers, up ed grandmothers and send them to fifty years of age and, more are seattling back to their graves, could women of modern education, cur-

sand dune and that's Cromer: they be called to see the world of ried forward by the irresistible Here's a delicate feminine hand their sex to-day, so great has been wave of general progress. If still groping among bluebells, dailles, etc.--and that's Kingston-on- the change within the past three swayed more or less by the inherit Thames. Here are smugglers under decades, especially the lust filleened spirit of reserve and self-efface the Skull and Crossbones hoisting ment, they are not horror stricken in a keg of rum: behold the East as their mothers and grandmothers Coast, and all the invigorating You see in Tokyo, in ever increas-

would have been at open air exer- joys thereof. Here's a saucy, par ing numbers, Japanese women

They are in the cises and sports of their own daughrot dangling a suitcase-and the European dress. inority but they are more and ters and younger sisters. In fact answer's the Vale of Usk. There, more conspicuously, in evidence in they occupy to day exactly the finally, is a delightful group of the streets, in society and at public same position as that of their sex sporty men and girls with tennis gatherings. Not that the Japanese in the advanced West, the doors of racquets trooping into a café, label- 31 and, in- women look atteselive in society being freely open to them, led Morning Coffee

ab Felixstowe. their foreign dress. They do not while their brothers have changed evitably, you are in fact most of them look ungainly their attitude toward them: only The vivid rainbow over the moun- Bat such of them as wear the new they have not attained the mental tains is The Trossachs; the stag dress, have, at any rate, asserted attitude to adapt themselves to the bellowing at the purple height is ther choice, ir preference to long new order of things. They are the Isle of Skye; that solitary girl sleeved, flowing kimono and show hopeful, however, that the next with the fishing rod, plus addments themselves conscious of their in-generation will fully enjoy all the of children in the background, is freedoin, equality and suffrage Filey for the Family" and that dependence. :

which civilization and culture bring youth with his arm round the girl's

waist is, indubitably-Southend.

TURNE

The new dress in Japan speaks, in a measure, for the emancipation and progress of the sex and per haps also for a broadened educa a knowledge of things West tion, ern This is especially true of music and light litorature. School

Interior Position.

The position of a woman in the social and family life of old Japan is thought to have been little better than that of a slave. It is true

Where Is It?"

It is all marvellously intriguing. It would be more intriguing stilt if the railway companies omitted

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girls of Tokyo, nearly all of them that the dark age evolved in Japan the names and ran Where Is ese women a habit of keeping to It? prize competition. The num- their houses as a measure of self-

how wear foreign uniforms.

But what Americana and Europrotection, and the Buddhist docber of places qualifying for the peans do not know, is that these trine of sin and deflement of the rambow and the morning coffee, to uf foreign dress in public become sex assisted by the Confuciaaay nothing of the youth's spare ike regular Japanese masume the teaching, bred the custon of leokarm would probably-stagger, the moment they are back in their ing down on them as inferiors, learn, to their chagrin, that their authorities. The Trossachs would homes, where they don the kimono the and act, und indeed, talk like true Japanese. The dress seems to aflect their mental condition! Thus, being in the Weste in dress means a great deal more to young Japanese women than being merely in the swim of fashion; it even furnishes a guide to their psycho- Jogy.

WOHLI!

One of the most influential news- papers in the land recently sent out a series of questions, and ob tained answers from 2,500 young girls graduating from high schools them all over the country and therefore ready to enter society, to work, or to join the great throng of house- wives.

Attitude Towards Men.

A remarkable feature of the answers was the great unanimous dislike expressed by them for young men who try to flatter or persist in doing the silly and frivolous things to arrest the atten- tion of the maidene. They express ed a preference for manliness with gentle manners. It is interesting to note that extremely few now speak for the equality of sexez, showing that for all the advance

The Grand Old Woman Of Japan.

The one woman who has figured perhaps more prominently than any

ins "Between man and woman; but it

rainbow sometimes strayed us far || no exaggeration to say that no

was ever honoured with south as Abergavenny and even Box Hill, Mr. D. Y. Cameron's more loving reverence than the Japanese mother, nor was any ever epic, but somewhat heated, pre- treated more courteously and con: scatation of the Scottish High-

might siderately than the Japanese wives lands

be confused by and daughters.

Sassenach competitors with Vest- Every year that goes by is now vius in eruption. There is no limit home from the West, to the confusion which could result. In other cases, perhaps, the ob from Americe, younger

inore so. Who Japanese women who have been vious is rather educated at colleges and universi- could possibly mistake Hastings ties there. They bring back with with its castle, Bournemouth with the ideas and thoughts, its pines, York with its minster, with its castle, morals, philosophy and culture of Edinburgh also thei their advanced sisters.. These North Berwick with its golf course round the young Japanese women are making complete with "fans. themselves the guiding stars of the tee, Plymouth with its spectral woman's world of Japan today; Drake, Weymouth with its exclu- but even they insist that the Japan sive English edition of the Bay of ese daughters must never lose the Naples Here, obviously, the womanliness of their mothers and artist has plumped for safety first; grandmothers of yore, while they he was lucky enough to be given should strive to keep abreast of the place with a pictoriul cliché, and progress and enlightenment of their has made the most of it. In the case of Mr. Fred Taylor's York he Western sisters:

has qualified the cliché with some. enchanting work in the way of religious procession with banners and ruddy red roofs, as if to say: Well, you can have your Minster,

flourish, too. This is art, not but I'm going to have my little photography," As for Mr. Donald Maxwell's. Weymouth, naturally it had to be charmingly and sensitive English as well as Neapolitan.

The Landscape Tradition. Then there is the minority which just surrenders itself humbly to if it cannot stir hectis emotions in Her visit to Washington preceded prospective holidaymakers at least the young men of to-day, are poor the Disarmament Conference and it can make decent, sound pictures in physique and are desirous that

her efforts were typical of her work in the landscape tradition. In this they go in more for outdoor, sports; others rate the male sex as general for the causes in which she believes. sincere minority one places Mr. Five miles from Dairen, bat connected with the city by special to farafshed thick all the girls will fall in love interpreter as many as five times a Birch's Lake District, and are

ly conceited, so much

so that they Speaking only her native tongue, Charles Buchel's Deeside, Mr. Paul she her message through an Henry's Connemara, Mr. Lamoras riage road and aloptric tramway. Yaasto Hotel (85 rooms) and 12 bungalows in charming of garden, Hething, Bosting, Fishing, Colt, Tennis, with them. Equally numerous are inte

girls Billiards, Orchestra twior a week.. Ospital place for children

who

day in Washington and New York,

freshing study OGONDAI.-Most beautiful and select Benards Bosort in the Far East Two for the reproach their brothers abowing the strain of the

selfishness and wilfulness

depicting a plus-fours gal- from Port Arthar. Formerly the Bummer Resort of the bigh Raesian and want them to cultivate better tremendous effort. Champion. of lant and bross open-air girl on the righte of her countrywomen, she the butts. These things bring a offloors and offaisla. Yamato Hotel sad #0 villas and bangalows, mostly with morals.

has taken part in the public life of quiet joy to the eye. A lovely detached servants' quarters, Excellent Bathing, Won lorful Scenery, Historic

Japan for more then half a a century.

place, they induce one to say. Battlefields, Kained and Dismantled Fort, Mine of harming Walks and Drive.

Pionicing Facilities. Oroheatri twice a week. Best place To the question "What are the She organized the W.C.T.U. I'll go and stay there some day

strong and weak points of Japanese Japan and has been active in her whereas the cleverer ones are in for high-class PORT ARTHUR.-Fanions for its two memorable Bleger and its beautiful women?" the answers give the fol inbours for peace and prohibition clined to set one thinking rather

Excursions. landlocked Harbour. Exactly one hour's journey from Dairen by express lowing as their commendable char- She was founder and president brain

Yamato Hotel (18 rouma,

Just one or two reflections re- Beflotent place of historical and canleaeteristics: The Japanese women the Toshi Gakium Guild for Girls of Cheap Day interest to fill a month with fresh walk or drive every day. Most bealthy are modest, gentle, self-depreca in Tokyo and head of various other main. Chepstow is now boomed

deep

મું spirit and salubrious spot in the Far East.

self-sacrifice

With an zory,

women's organizations.

for its new racecourse instead of are rich in sympathy and motherly understanding that has mollowed its castle. The ubiquitous golfer

Madame All under the direct management of the SOUTH MANUHURIA RAILWAY GO love; make better wives than their with the passingent of things Take of Thun, though one would has strayed into a corner of the sisters of some other countries aro Yajima is kindly tolerant obliging, polite, and make most others condemn. She saye: "Every willing housewives; are strong in thing that is now is bound to be swear there was hardly, room for and faithful; are criticized. Some things new are, ping-pong table 'twixt moun -THE SUPERINTENDENT OF HOTELS, Trafle Departmen national spd patient; are skill-good and somo are bad. Only the tains and water.. Picardy is no

peace loving and Cable Add. Mantan or BOO, BOUTH MANOBULIA RAILWAY. Dairen ful in delicate manual work, and test of time will tell, and we must longer Roser, as in the song, but

Coder A.B.C. 5th & 6th Ed., A1. Lieber'■ and Bentley's.

hold out till the last when duty not be too quick to condomn."

(Continued on next column),

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by the younger generation movement is Madame K. Yajima, they have not developed entire con- often called "The Grand Old uuence in their sex in its new day. Woman of Japan." It is now more There is no doubt, however,

that than four years ago that she tailed their

minde are heading that way on the late President Harding at spoken to as Washington, D.C., and was received

"You are a dear,y a girl. They demand re-

ra with the words:

and I

reverence nd protest being treated 'sweet, old woman" cognition

anyone who still keeps the spirit of as dependents. They want also co- education and the raising of the youth. May you live a long time standard of girls' schoole.

to continue the

Hundreds of girls. point out that you are now engwork in which pure, unaffected art, thankful that

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Londoners com- priests and processions, in Mr. E the foreground.

(Under- Country Joys" A. Cox's most joyous manner. posite Harrogate seems to be attracting ground) now comprise jockeys and grey-moustached colonels, retired mounts racing over a tennis court list, with most adorable nieces; at and missing by inches an artist. least, we conclude that is the im- with easel, while the Great God plied relationship of the pair in Pan pipes the odds near by.

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