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Show JAPANESE WOMEN EAGER FOR NEWEST MAGAZINES TOKJO, rct 8. i Correspondence Subjects of in-tere.M to women read ing In Japanese- magazines indlcatlnK ?inea indicating the more Important place Japanese women are tiklng In the life Of their count The number ui magazines Intended primarily for I women Is also augmenting. 1 Women suffrage' was the BUbJeCl tikcn up by the Josei Nipponjin meaning mean-ing "Feminine Japanese," ons of the most noteworthy of the new period! cals. it has tuken a distinctive placi among the many new magazines i ' ed for the feminine public. Articles In this and other magu.ines show that ! the women of Japan have a keen Interest In-terest in the social problems of the I west. The Josel Nipponjin is edited b I Dr. Yujiro and Mrs. Niyake who early distinguished herself as one of the pioneer girl writers of the Mel.ll regime. reg-ime. Another women s magazine, the Fu Jin Club (Woman's Clubt gave a I symposium on the Ideal wife or husband hus-band by 129 school boys and girls and I working women ; complaints about an I unappreciative husband, a too strict home, narratives of experience, meth-i meth-i ods of kitchen efficiency and cure (or servants that steal The article are iiommon to near!) all magazines of the same type Tho Gendal (Contemporary) deals also with women's interests. Tens of thousands of copies are sold of entertainment enter-tainment magazines telling popular, talry, romantic or historical stories. The Shin Mungel (New Literature), seeks to familiarize Che reader with modern western and especlallv English Eng-lish literature The Svptembi. r number num-ber ld-als With -liisoph C'inruil and H ij Wells It proposes also to study the fundamentals of new ' Isms" and their application to education and literature. The Shlna-Gaku (SIihi1ok i wishes lo modernize eastern culture on a common com-mon racial and literary basis. |