Show Smoking the Harem Out ou of ol Asia A New Order of Womanhood Is Springing Up in the On Orient nt Oriental women are casting aside their veils eils Even the time rank and ani file fe of them are revolting against being penned up tip in harems The TIme word harem is Arabic an and ald d means giving privacy seclusion The confining of women In ill n harems that harems that is to say se secluding se- se eluding duling them and den denying ng them the tile liege of talking with or c coming In contact contact con con- tact with tt f men e excepting their 1 husbands I b 3 or nearest male relatives relatIves relatIves-is Is is a Mohammedan custom and anti harems are to be found existing in every country where the tile Influence of the Moslem has been dominant The Tile downfall of or the time hamem larem is s the tile greatest good that modernism Is accomplishing in Asia sla and with it is s dying polygamy A new order of womanhood is springing spring tog ing n I into g being 1 In au all wn quarters or Of the orient Masses of oriental wom women n are willing nay imay eager to share the re responsibilities re- re of public pu le life with men Moreover er they are willing to work with them shoulder shuder to shoulder v vIn In hil every Asiatic country you Ot see the schools new woman conducting special for girls and neighborhood centers enters for women of comparatively advanced ages age These institutions are designed to educate educate edu edu- cate the tile present and anti rising generations of women womEn to properly discharge their various duties dutes In these schools girls and women are taught what constitutes constitutes const const- I their real rl rights Here they are also inspired to unflinchingly and sl steadily steadily stead stead- adly ad- ad ily ly labor to obtain and maintain these rights ts Paradoxical as as' It I may seem the time most favored and successful manner in which the oriental woman carries on her propaganda ganda work worl is through the tile channels of the newspapers and even en magazines In various parts paris of Asia especially in China Cilina India and Japan women are re conducting publications to further time the th cause in IP I Japan the tile Twentieth Century Woman a radical radial monthly magazine is edited b by bya I a woman and many of her contributors are women China has imas three flourishing publications edited by and for women In is also a magazine for women womEn It is s printed e in English and started t some I haar two years ago dg it has a large g and growing growing grow grow- f ing circulation |