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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jul 4, 1912

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 27.

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Note and Comment

By Editor

A New China

Of the sweeping changes which are rapidly, and in many cases quite silently so far as the world is concerned, going forward in the Chinese empire, the United Presbyterian of May 16, 1912, says:—
The queue, which was imposed upon them over two hundred years ago by their Manchu conquerors, and which, almost to a man, they had grown to think was a part of themselves, is gone to stay. The new government has come out strong against the custom of foot-binding, absolutely forbidding the same. The reform against opium smoking is equally enforced.
They have changed from the lunar month to that of the sun, and, dating from this year, their year will be the same as the foreign. The better classes have almost to a man adopted the foreign hat, and those who can afford to are wearing the foreign shoes. Foreign tailoring establishments are springing up all over the city. I am even told that as soon as the government is properly established, all business will cease on the Sabbath day. This last does not mean that they are keeping the Sabbath day from a Christian standpoint, but because they recognize the importance of one day of rest.