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Show Oiiwse Ways. How Chinese women were expected ex-pected to behave themselves 2,000 years ago is set forth in a pleasing little Chinese work of '.'A') chapters. In the presence of her parents or parents-in-law, a woman might not ! sneeze or cough, neither stretch, j y:iwn nor loll about when tired. She was required to wear a happy I face and to show a smiling, pleasant j deportment in serving them, in j order to soothe them. The wife of a certain Liu Kung-tseh comes in 1 for a large share of praise simply I because "for three years after her I marriage nolnxly bad ever been her smile." |