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Show I Schoolgirl of China Coached in Manners In the native schools ot China the Chinese girl gels very little book-j book-j learning. She enters the school late at about the age of ten or eleven recehes instruction In morals and manners and marries as soon as her brief educational course Is finished. The proverbial Chinese politeness '.8 taught in the schools as well as In the home. Iu the classroom the little girls learn how to greet friends and acquaintances, how to receive visitors with all old-time Chinese formality; how to offer tea, how to present an umbrella to an aged lady, how to share an umbrella witth a companion u thousand and one acts of courtesy each distinguished by Its own proper ceremony. In families which have become be-come somewhat modernized the young Chinese daughters by way of a final ! polishing in their last year at school ; learn civics and receive a sort of patriotic pa-triotic Instruction. |