A New Woman Question Emerges in China
In modern Shanghai and Beijing, Chinese women challenge ancient roles. Yang families confront a mother in law over modern schooling and social freedom, including coeducation at Peking University and women adopting Western dress such as trousers.
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Nathaniel Peffer
New York Tribune
Yang Hsien
Sheng
Yang Hsien Sheng
Mr. Yang
Yang T’ai T’ai
Mrs. Yang
New China
Mission School
Yang P’o P'o
Yang
China
Mimlp
Mrs. Young
M. Yang
Shanghai
Siam
Peking
Russia
Greenwich Village
Europe
America
Tsai Yuanpei
Government University
Great Horse Road
Crandfather
Rolled stockings ignite moral quarrel in Mason City Iowa
In Mason City a civic controversy erupts over whether women should wear rolled stockings with prosecutors claiming moral risk while defenders argue convenience and health. Police matron Anna Merrincourt bans nude knees, prompting debate among clerks, stenographers, and doctors.
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Mason City
Anna Merrincourt
O. Kred
American women appear dull to the Reyes of Europe
Anne O'Hare McCormick notes a recent English visitor to the United States believes American men show a distinct national type while American women lack distinctive facial marks or features. The observer finds American women at home too diverse to exhibit a shared facial identity.
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Supreme Councils of Clothesmakers
Italy
France
England
Europe
Ravenna
Saint Apollinere
Classe
Reyes
Anne O'Hare McCormick
New York Times
United States
Postum Offers Coffee Alternative For Better Sleep
An advertisement argues caffeine in coffee and tea harms nerves and sleep. It promotes Postum as a coffee like cereal beverage that avoids caffeine, promising sound sleep and steadier nerves. It lists Instant Postum and Postum Cereal as two product forms and urges readers to buy from grocers.
The True Question: What We Do, Not What We Gain
A brief meditation on life’s purpose urges that actions define value more than rewards. The fragment mentions the idea of true question guiding conduct, with a person named Carme implied in the text.
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Carme
Prince Albert
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