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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Chinese

THERE is no more fas-

cinating and at the same time more debatable subject than that of "woman." Her

one.

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18,

Women AN ESSAY BY

ciples, so why lower them to

a mere question of money?"

A

the.

T. Paul

Gregory

Most Chinese scholars, how-

influence in the scheme of THERE was one outstanding factor which distinguished human progress is so inef- the women of China in the not fably great that it is impossi- no distant past, and that was the favourite walked across it, he is ble of being casually summ- practice of chin-keuk or foot- reputed to have exclaimed: "Po ed up; for is it not the binding. This is a subject which po shaun kam-fa!"-"Every consummate truth "that has been made the field of much footstep, of you, my love, makes the hands which cuddle laboured Investigation on the ally grow!" From this inci- the babe rule the world? part of Chinese students of dent, the Chinese allege that the

sociology who have ventured to poetical term for bound fect Her position, too, has been express the probable date of the kam-li or "golden Hiles" ንቤ a diverse and ceaselessly commencement of the practice; derived! changing

Mankind Needless to say, they have not has grudgingly conceded her succeeded in unearthing any ever, state that the practice of the elemental rights which very satisfactory data respect compressing the feel does not ing the actual period when this date farther back than the 10th are hers by inheritance, and peculiar and excruciatingly pain- century. Most of the poets of thus we find that in those ful custom became established. the effulgent Tang dynasty lands of the West where the Popular tradition. however, the so-called "Golden Age" of Code Napoleon is in force, affirms that the dubious honour China--dedicated many an erotic her position may be justly should be given to

of having set

fashion verse in praise of women's bare # court feel. In fact, one of these poets said to be somewhat inferior tady narual Yiu-neung, who was the celebrated Li Po who to that of her sisters in was incidentally the favour seemed to have been like Ros- those countries which have ite concubine of Lei Han-chuc, getti and Swinburne, a connois- progressed further

effeminate prince whose seur not only of wine but also in "n achieving a

more equable downfall terminated the so-call- of female beauty, and his poems- state of true democracy.

ed Southern Tang dynasty, in praise of the fair sex have no eirra. A. D. 975. There is. allusion whatever to artificial +

moreover, a statement in a 12th compression. IN none of the countries of the century Chinese work entitled

may be interesting to not? globe, however, hus the posi- T-sháan Ts'ing-wứ that "Yius that the reasons advanced for neung, the concubine of Lei Hau- this singular practice are many tion of woman undergone mare chue, was slender and beautiful, and conflicting. The real rea- vicissitudes than in China. She and an accomplished dancer. son, however, is alleged to be has fulfilled in this ancient He (Lei. Hau-chue) had golden sexual one, but statements in lilies made, six feet in height, support of this theory cannot varying role over

adorned with precious stones, throughout the ages. Indeed, and amongst the lilies be sel one era, she has held a (images) of sunny clouds, upon which he caused Yiu-neung to position of equality with man. dance, with her feet compressed and in another she has been re- by bandages into the shape of legated to a station of the most the new moon," So attractive abject humility. Thus we find did the beauty appear that the Chinese poets of that age com.

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"Lin chung fa kang ho,

that in the ever-memorable Han posed many verses relating to dynasty, women were granted the incident, in one of which the rights of holding public occurs the following lines: office and competing upon terms of equality with men in the public examinations, and there are numerous examples in Chin- ese history which attest. the eminence of the talents of the educated Chinese women of that illustrious epoch. One of these talented Iulies was Cheuk Man- kwan, who is credited with be ing one of the most skilled poetesses of her day. In fact, one of her compositions is highly appreciated that it is

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middle class. The tastefully cut and well-designed long gown of the gentlewoman of to-day was not introduced until about fifteen years ago. About this time," 100, physical culture for women was first advocated, and the obviously be given here, al question of hygienic dress came foremost amongst though the reader may find a full "Peso

these lenders of reform waa one account in the medical works of whose name should be enshrined Dr. Martin of l'eiping, and quot. ed in extenso in certain of the as one of the most farsight- ed men of his generation-Dr. volumes of that admirable mono. Chue Ka-wa, a member of the graphic series "The Psychology Kwangtung Provincial Govern- of Sex" by the English savant ment and concurrently Commis- Mr. Havelock Ellis.

sioner of Civil Affairs during the years 1917 to 1919. This gentle. DURING the Ts'ing or Manchu man realised that in order to dynasty, the practice was build up a strong nalion, much widespread, although the Man- depended upon the creation of a chu enquerors as well as the healthy womanhood; for is it Hakkas of Kwangtung Pro- not said "that the girls of to-day. vince did not permit their are the mothers of to-morrow?" womenfolk to indulge in such an With this end in view he began invidious custom, and in the to fearlessly advocate that all third year of reign of Chinese girls in the city's schools the Manchu monarch. K'ang-hsi, must adopt a more sensible eired 1661, an edict was promul- method of dressing, and should gated "forbidding the practice no longer follow the practice of the "conting under dire penalties, in the case ch'uk-hung or of all female infants born subse- free development of the femin- quent to the first year of the ine chest by tight undergar

The NEW movement Emperor's reign." The newly- ments." established Manchu government was termed kaai-hung or "loos-

interfere too much with the tion was regarded by conservas however, thought it best not to ening the chest" and at its initia- established customs of the Sons tive familles with loathing and of Han, so the decree was abro- even dread. In fact, the new gated in 1668, at the instance of scheme was in positive contra- the Board of Rites. Indeed, I diction to the Chinese ideas of remained for "the efforts of feminine appearance and even Christian missionaries in the morality; for in the case of latter part of the last century to a young girl to be other-

than sow the seed which led to the wise

flat-chested WIH. ultimate exposure of the folly deemed the aeme of indecency. of the age-old custom. Nown. However, the Commissioner of

ANSWERS days, however, one scarcely ever Civil Affairs decreed that, if a

Week-End Problems

PROBLEM 1 CHOCOLATES

The three prices are 10s.. 45., 15.

Mr. Palimpsest buys:

Wan lul yuel ch'eung-san"

(1)

5 hoses at Hts., 1 at 4s, 6

at 15.

"Amongst the lilies yet a fairer flower,

(2)

3 boxes at 10s.. 7 at 4, 2

at 18.

(3)

2 boxes at 10:, 10 at 48.

Amongst the clouds an ever- crescent moon.”

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PROBLEM II

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likewise legend affirms that another famous beauty of the past was the pos- bound feet. This of

Seasor

often quoted at the present beauteous lady was named Poon day as it is entirely modern

Kwai-fei and lived during in its conception and theme, the

sixth century A. This is the

in order

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Current Affairs

1937

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

The SNA

CHECK UP ON YOURSELF

Do your summer prints show the care this one does the deft framing of follage, judiolaus placing of figuros, strong shadows against brilliant high. Eights and full exposure for shadow detail? Will trimming them help, as trimming on the white line helps balance this plature? When you make a mistake, do you note it down, so you can avold it in the future? It's a help. ful Idex.

3.

HALL is a neason for taking stock | sheet of cardboard or a white plenle

in any businesses, it is also a cloth spread in tho aut. good time for tho amateur camera- if a inndinenpo is dead, analyzo man, after a busy summer, to take and recall the scene. Maybg by back. Ing up a little or moving to one side, ntock of self and his work.

Are you improving? Are you tukyou could have included a grace. ing better pictures now than you fully-curving tree branch fairly close were six months or a year ago? And to the camera, to give the pleturo If not, why not?

depth and a natural frame. Maybe It, perchance, you aren't improv-by a change of position you could ing as rapidly and steadily as you have included a path or a hodgo that think you should, I'll venturò this is ? would lead the eye gradually across the renson-you aren't studying and into the picture. Write on tho your mistaken.

hack of the print what you should have done.

The rat sparo hour you have, why don't you collect all your mutn

Maybe you have chlid pictures in mer prints and singlo out those that which backgrounds are mottled and Are bad-the portraits made in confused, slicking up in meaningles harak sunlight with no provision for fashion behind the subjest. Ansthor the shaded side of the face, the background, a change of viewpoint, landscapes with dead foregrounds | might have made each picturo per- and no "framing" of trees or follage, feet. Write down what you shoul the prints that show blank white bave done. akles, without clouds or tone.

After you have noted theso mits. Recall the scens and then write taken, don't just slick the printa down on the lack of each priut what away and forget them. Use them as you should have done to make then referency Ale. Take a fow out on pleture good.

your pleture-making jaunts and be mindful of them when new picture chances arlue.

If you have a blank sky or very thin clouds, note down that you

ahoull have used & filter.

Learn what you do wrong-decido how to do il right-think before you shout. Here is one of the secrets of pleture-making succesù.

sees a pair of bound feet, unless girl did not follow the dictates of it is in certain of the country dis- hygienic requirements, she could tricts in the remote hinterland. not attend school, and inspectors where some of the ladies of the were appointed to see that the older generation cling tenacious- regulation way carried out. ly to the now-outlawed anti re- Fortunately, after some prelim- pudiated custom, As far as the inary haggling and reticence, younger generation is concerned, the justifiable antagonism of foot-binding has been non-exis- the more advanced of the popu- tent for well over a generation, lace was gradually overcome. and the Chinese girl of to-day and as we look upon the splendid can well boast that she possesses specimens of young Chinese The most exquisitely proportion womanhood of the year 1937 Castle the American danseuse the hated "Red" doctrines, so

ed pair of feet of any of Mother we can affirm with pride and in

Eve's daughters, ......

수

If a portrait has no detall on the shiny side, nola that you should have used a reflector near the then on that side, oven if it was only a

the

John you Cuilder,

1917, were few and far that after the suppression of the admiration that the young between, and it is recorded that movement by the troops of the woman of modern China can the practice of shorn locks, like Kuomintang, women with bob-

aside of leaving

bed hair were in positions of hold her own with any of her that

sai - tight-fitting

minent peril. It is a pity THERE is another phase of

Chinese custom which has sisters in any country of the extremely

or shaw

chemisc of

directed the that suspicion was globe."

old - fashioned woman. been heroiently handled by the.

was against those who had adopted assumed to be too exotic and this style of coiffure. It exponents of feminine emancipa- tion and that is the question of

THE introduction of the style devilishly daring to be imme- is stated that during the subse- nore hygienic dress for women.

of bobbed hair is likewise of diately acceptable. Indeed, in quent purge, many a maid Until some twenty years ago, the prevailing style of female comparatively recent origin and the year 1927 during the days of with bobbed hair met an untime- the ill-fated Communist putsch ly fate-not the speedy death apparet was the smock and pair dates no further back than 1922. at Canton, young women with of the bullet, but a shameful and agonising one in the hands of a fiendish soldiery,“

of trousers such as may be seen Even at that date the exponents shorn locks were alleged to be

to this day in the case of Chinese of the novel-style-of-hair-dress amongst those who disseminated women of the servant or lower- ing first advocated by Irene

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famous poem Unkind, tradition affirms that written in answer to her hus she

was the possessor hand who wished to take a con- clubbed-feet. cubine-a-lady-whom it is alleged to-concert-this-she-Caused them. possessed no little wealth, and to be enswathed in silk. Her whose probable dowry was the mincing gait was the source of object of her husband's inten- much delight to her lord and tions. The concluding lines are master, an effeminate prince by especially famous:

name of Tung Huen-hat; so much so that he ordered the artisans of his court to pave the mosaic of palace floor with a golden lilies, and when his tiny

"Naam-nui chung yi-hei Hoh-yung ts'in-to wai" "It is important that men, and women have right prin-

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There were two misprints

week's last

ATISwers. Q. Queen Elizabeth has been made a Doctor of Literature. Q. 14. Tschaikovsky was, 1st course, a composer.,

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The Samphire Casa Playfair

spotted-what his colleague Truefti had over- Mrs. looked that the letter to Hellefant was in code. "Every second

Taking every counts." second word of each sentence, he rend:

Wait for me ve to-morrow with syndicate papers you knowo where.

confirmed bis This message suspicions. All he had to do now was-having ostentatiously with- drawn his subordinates from Mrs. Hellefont's dat-to shadow her to the place of meeting with Sam- phire.

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You're looking very attractive tonight Mrs. Cartwright

I'm looking forward tremendously to this theatre party with the Cartwrights tonight, darling...

no woman

can hide...

Now then!

Now then!

Aren't you coming for a drink, darling?

No, I'll stay, Banks

THINKER

I look dreadful Beside that Cartwright

woman-so drapen and fired-looking. I even make tired, I must sze a doctor

Horlicks every night.

Darling, you look

wonderful! Better than

Mrs. Cartwright?

TWO MONTHS LATER

THINKS:

I'm not. 1 look about a hundred-, wish I wasn't always so tired

whole

WHERE TIREDNESS FIRST" SHOWT

1.

PULL ETES

2: PINCHED

DRAWN

LOOK

PASTY SXIN

This waking tired tells on your appearance. Your trouble is you're not replacing the energy you use up during sleep in breathing and other automatic actions, so of course you wake feeling and looking tired. It's Night Starvation: I suggest Horlicks regularly at bedtime....

Horlicks makes such a difference to the way you feal and LOOK

A WIELEST

HAIR

5. AGEING

ALWAYS feeling and waking tired tells on your looks and personality. Take Horlicks—a cupful regularly at night -.. and end Night Starvation. You wake full of life-skin petal fresh, eyes bright. You have untiring sparkle all day.

HORLICKS guards against Night Starvation

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