MODERN YOUTH.
An authority writing in the China Gritic, Shanghai, declares that tho modern Chinese youth requires in tho modern Chinese girl an embodiment of "all the ancient virtues and all the modern ideals She must bo smart, but not extravagant. She must be sociable, but not boisterous. She must understand politics, but not practise them She must recognise his rights, but not insist on her own She must be at once his mato and his maid."
This would perhaps bo a little sur prising, after all we have heard of the new China, did not the writer grimly add: "Such a modern girl is not to be found 1"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20562, 13 May 1930, Page 15
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