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Show in TiiE mm OUT OFJSIATIG LIFE New Order of Womanhood Is Springing Up in tlio Orient. Oriental womon arc casting aside their veils. Even tho rank and flic of them aro revolting against being penned up In harems, says tho Travel Magazine. The word harem Is Arabic, aud moans privacy, seclusion. The confining of women In haremn, that Is lo suy, secluding seclud-ing them and denying them the privilege privi-lege nf talking with or coming In contact con-tact with men, excepting their husbands or nearest male relatives, Is a Mohammedan Mohamme-dan custom, and harems aro to be found existing In every country whom tho Influence In-fluence of tho 'Moslem has been dominant. The downfall of the harem Is the greatest great-est good that modernism Is accomplishing accomplish-ing In Asin, and with it is dying polygamy. polyg-amy. A new order of womanhood Is springing spring-ing Into being In all quarters of the orient. Masses of oriental women are willing, nay eager, to share tho responsibilities respon-sibilities of public Hfo with men. Moro-over, Moro-over, they aro willing to work with them shoulder to shoulder. In every Asiatic country you see tho "new" woman conducting special schools for girls and neighborhood centers for women of comparatively advanced ages. These institutions arc resigned to cdu-catfi cdu-catfi tho present and rising generations of women to properly discharge their various va-rious duties. In hese schools oriental girls and women arc taught what constitutes con-stitutes their real rights. Here they aro also Inspired to unflinchingly and steadily labor to obtain and maintain these rights. Paradoxical as It may seem, the most favored and successful manner In which tho oriental woman carries on hor propaganda propa-ganda work is through the channels of the newspapers and even magazines. In various parts of Asia, especially In China, Chi-na, India and Japan, women are conducting conduct-ing publications to further the cnuse. In Japan the Twentieth Century Woman, a radical monthly magazine. Is edited by a woman, and many of her contributors are women. China has three flourishing nubllcatlons edited by anil for women. In Hindustan is also a magazine for women. It Is printed In English, and, started some two years ago, it has a large and growing circulation. |