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Show ENGLISH IS "COMMON TONGUE. Chinese Girls Learn It to Talk to One Another. ' Chinese women stuiH'iilK In (ho Tung I'll College, IVklng, China, nic obliged to leniii Ihigllsh In order to talk with one nnother because of the different (lliilccts used by tbo student body. Olrls from Hie extreme western prmlnct'ft of China, who nttenil the school,, must remain In Peking dm Ing all of the eight .enrs requited for their high school and college training, train-ing, because to leturn ench summer would lemilrc sis weeks for the (rip ono wny and would cost more than a trlii to America and return. (tills, from each of the western pro luces speak a dlffeicnt language and they eaunot understand one np-j np-j other nuy ninro than they ran the girls fiom northern, southern, eastern or central provinces. Hence, they have adopted English as a common tongue. |