Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1920 — Women’s Rights in China. [ARTICLE]

Women’s Rights in China.

A paternal government in the province of Hupeh, China, is endeavoring by official action to bring the women to order and reason, in the matter of clothes. “Women and girls are* not permitted to wear extraordinary clothes,” runs the official order which the police have been instructed to enforce. “The women's dresses, which were generally adopted by the Chinese gentle sex previous to the first revolution in 1911, are better suited to young women because they are not too short or too narrow, and they should be used again.” The official order gives further particulars of the abuses which It alleges have taken place by which, in the matter of clothes, it is not possible to distinguish, the Chinese women of “respectable and good families from those who are not.” But the significance of this solicitude on the part of the military governor of Hupeh is found In the part of the order which states that the importance of bearing and clothes Is to be recognized, “in view* of the fact that women are playing an important part in modern politics in western countries, and there is sufficient reason to believe that this awakening of the gentle sex will soon be extended to the far East.”