Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 261, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1919 — Chinese Women Are Advancing [ARTICLE]

Chinese Women Are Advancing

Woman Doctor Predicts Great Future in Their Politics.

EDUCATED HERE FOR MISSION

Dr Yamel Kin as a Baby Was the Only Survivor of a Family of Plague Victims —Taking Great Strides. a life which she has tAiilt up to a point of success such that she is recognized as the foremost woman physician throughout the length and breadth of China, Dr. Yamel Kin. who passed through Honolulu recently on her way to the United States, has a life history that has few equals for romance and interest. Many years ago a physician of wealth and leisure named Doctor Mo Cartee was traveling in the far East, going from village to village in China studying the language and customs. His quest lasted nearly fifty years. One afternoon he stopped for the night in a village devastated by the plague, and while walking about among the silent, death-marked huts he heard the wail of a tiny baby. He discovered an entire family lying dead in the hut, with the exception of a baby girl. Adopted Little Orphan. Having no child, the doctor adopted the little orphan and sent her to America for an education. He gave her the best medical training that time afforded, hoping to make of her a great woman physician, and In time she was graduated from a medical college In New York city, an Institution that ceased to exist when the Cornell and Columbia university medical colleges for women were opened. She Is now Doctor Kin. , . j Never for a moment, however, did Doctor' Kin forget the land of her ■ r

birth, and as she grew to be considered a brilliant -Chinese woman in America her efforts for the women of China were untiring. She has lectured and written in behalf of China, and has held a position under the Chinese government with a view to bringing the republic and the United States Into better understanding. According to Doctor Kin, women in China are taking seven-league strides to rid themselves of the environment of practical vassalage under which they have lived for ages past Sne predicts great things for an awakTier way to the UnTtea SWtes to make experiments which she feels will be of benefit to her countrymen.