Show training of girls in china during her first ten years the chinese girl enjoys as much freedom as A boy like a boy she wears her hair in a long pigtail and frequently goes about in boya boyd attire especially where there are no sons in the family for or in that case the chinese wish to maintain the illusion that the house is not without roalo male descendants during this time also no matter what her station she IA is trained in all household duties and womans comans handicrafts A high value is in put on becoming demeanor decent bearing and clothing and in many bouses houses it Is considered a point of honor for or the daughter to be able to prepare a large part of her dowry with her own hand band while the little chinese girl may be no less fortunate than a european child during these years of impressionable childhood the chinese parents with only few exceptions commit the first wrong to their daughters by letting them grow up without any schooling this applies especially to tho the north in the south particularly in the quang tong province in which canton lies a better report was obtained although there education among women dia did not begin to be so common as among men there were a few schools for or girls under directions while many received instruction from private teachers at the homes of their parents |