The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1912. CHINA’S WOMEN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 62, 8 March 1912, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER. FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1912. CHINA’S WOMEN.

One of the most fascinating points of the situation in regard to the revolution in China, it is held, is the part that Chinese women are playing in, it. lit :is hard'to conceive women taking part in anything in China, hut the ■statement made by Sun-Yat Sen in Chicago not long ago, to the effect that 1 htndctf hist regime ttlj’e"age-long ' subjectionvo.f his cbuntryworgew would he altered to a, pdsitiou -of-, full political equality is in itself an almost incredible tax on imagination. A correspondent who has had some conversation with a well-known London physician, who is one of Sun Yat Sen’s most intimate friends during his stay in London, was told that the Republican leader is not only deeply in earnest about this matter, but that no section of the Chinese people have more implicit confidence and loyalty in his if eg-1 hue than the women. The receptions in his honour, indeed, which , greeted him in many cities on his trip, at the end of last year from London to China were notable everywhere for enthusiastic demonstrations by women, while in China itself the educated classes among the women have had many celebrations in his honour. From the same authority we learn that it is a Chinese woman, and a very brilliant one, who is a connecting link between the fortunes of Sun-Yat-Son and his well-known adversary Yuan-Shiih-Kal. Mrs Chang, the niece of the Monarchist statesman, studied at Aberdeen University with her husband chiefly through the advice of Dr. Sun himself. Something of the enthusiasm with which Chinese women are assimilating Western culture may be gleaned from the fact that before she was fifteen Mrs Chang had road extensively in the works of Carlyle, Spencer, and John Stuart Mill. If this iS' as stated, Chinese women are making strides towards emancipation

PHYSICAL CULTURE.

Dr. Abrahams, a member of a Committee whose aim it is to endeavour to put English athletics on a scoentilic basis, to collect information on the best methods of training and other subjects of that kind, recently ihlad something to isay about training, the old style and the now. Of the old scheme of training—raw meat and no fluids—die made sport. A man whoj was old enough to go iii for serious 1 athletics was old enough to know what I was good for him, and Dr. Abrahams was in favour of rather more fluid than less during training, so long as it was water and was taken at the right time, and not with! or immedi itely after food. He had not been able to convince himself that smoking made any diflorence, perhaps because the athlete was always a very moderate smoker. .Dr, Abrahams was in favour of those forms of exercise which had a high psychological as well as a. physical value—tennis, golf, and, the like, —and did not think mucfil of; walking nor yet of swimming, because the psychological value of swimming was low, and there was no perspira-

tion. Above all, he was against what is called “physical culture” in place of games, the stretching of rubber, swinging of clubs, and the like. Such exercise was generally taken in a close room, and there was no value in the growing of muscles for muscles sake. Ho strongly recommended skipping in tne open-air.