A SENSIBLE CHINESE GIRL

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1903

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 29, No. 15.

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A SENSIBLE CHINESE GIRL.

Our American girls can learn a valuable lesson in modesty, propriety, and good sense from Miss Liang, the daughter of the new Chinese minister. She was interviewed by an Examiner reporter—a young woman, it seems—March 31 in San Francisco, and the following are among the good things said:—
America is a strange place to me. I have been in a state of bewilderment ever since my arrival. I have not had time to think whether I am pleased or not, but I think I am rather more pleased than otherwise, for every one is so friendly.
No, I prefer not to discuss my style of dress. Suffice it to say it is according to the most approved custom of my own country. These things are very trivial and only the unlettered women of China waste their time in talking of them.
The books I intend to study, the schools I expect to attend, and the progress I wish to make in learning the English language are more congenial subjects to me. The girls of China do not desire notoriety. We prefer the appreciation of our home people rather than the approval of the public.
Yes, we have a modern style of dress in China, since you insist upon knowing, and also a modern style of dressing the hair. I do not care to speak of the shoes worn by the Chinese girls. An American girl would object to being discussed in detail, so I think I, too, may refuse with much propriety. We do not publish our family affairs in the newspapers in China.
Oh, yes, I thoroughly believe in the education of girls, but I can not speak of the social life of the Chinese or what I would desire to change in regard to the social customs. I am too young and inexperienced to even think of such things. I have no opinion at all on the subject.