Women’s Clubs in China.

Lake County Press, Issue 905, 5 April 1900, Page 2

Women’s Clubs in China.

Ladies’ clubs in China are more approved of by women than men if one may Judge from an edict lately issued by the Prefect of Kwaiig Chau-fu (says the " Pall Mail Gazette”). “ Women’s clubs,” it runs, “ are hereby prohibited. It is a well-known fact that in the districts herein named a great part of tlie female population has a horror of matrimony. In consequence whereof our young persons who are married do remain away from their husbands a whole year at a time, passing their existence with parents, female friends, or in clubs. Should the man demand his wife back by force, she kills herself, and this causes grumbling against him from tlie parents and friends of (lie deceased. So t hat a man must, often live without his wife. I. therefore order that these clubs tie closed, and that the married woman go back to her husband within the space of one month. Contumacious wives will be taken back to their husbands by the policeman.” The revolt of the daughters, the revolt of the curates, tlie revolt of the wives—wo shall surely next have the revolt of tlie grandmothers.

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