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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Nov. 6, 1929)
THE BATTALION 7 SAY BO, DIDJA? Say Bo, didja ever make a statement * • • To the effect that * * * Anyone who would write * * * The Sweet Young Thing every day • * * Was a such and such fool, and * * * Furthermore, they could take * * * Three royal boots on * * • Just back of your lap. * * * Then, Bo, didja wander away off * • • To New York City, Philadelphia, * • * Baltimore, then to the Chemical * • * Warefare Camp at Edgewood, Md., • • • And go around camp for a cuple of • • • Weeks without combing your hair • • • Or giving a whoop whether you * • • Lived or died ? • • • Then, one night at a dance didja • • • Look around and see the one • • • And only girl you had ever seen With features of an Angel, * • • And rushe everyone on the floor * • • Trying to get a “knock-down.” • * • To find you above all had fallen in * «■ * Love at first sight. • • * Then, Bo, didja come all the « • • Way back to Texas in a trance * * • Which even a “flat” could not # * * Phase, and, now, writer her every • * • Day in the week and Twice on * * * Sunday, Aid Mail and Special * • * Delivery ? * * * Say, Bo, Didja? * * * JOHN HOWARD did. MODERNIZATION IN CHINA Here comes a letter from this land of intrigue, graft, warfare, famine, suffering, chaos, to tell you and the readers of your excellent papa about China’s new woman who has had a share in the “goings-on.” If a woman in China twenty years ago, had been given a Rip Van Winkle sleep, she would be more imiiiimnDimimimmiiimiiiiiniiimiuincjiiiiimiiiiumiimuiiuumiuimcjmiinmiicaiHmitiiiniiniiiiimntti^t mmm wg^d§t w^irconEg j They are Sturdy, ‘T^eliable, and good looking. I [\l_ew tJ&Codels ‘Priced i $15 $18 $19 AND UP XDI A. TVX O IXT O S . iS £ Xj'\7" J53 IFS. . X717" Oi3CE! Si f surprised than he was, should she awake today. Or, if of a better fam ily, be cooped up at home and stay there. She was allowed to be seen only by her husband or brothers. Now what a change l The modern Chinese young women skip around the streets with a spring, grace and freedom that’s quite refreshing when one remembers the women for merly hobbling along on bound feet supported by amahs. Now girls bob, shingle, or permanent wave their hair. That’s a sign of freedom l They ride bicycles, play tennis, basketball and engage in other athletics. For merly the parents arranged their marriage. Now one often sees the young ladies walking very affec tionately arm in arm with their “best boys,” and the young people often do the arranging. The dress used to be the most modest of any nationality. Now women are often seen with short sleeves and very low-necked frocks even at mid-day. Sometimes they’re seen with the most up-to-date up-beyond-the-knee short frocks and flimsy silk hose and very high-heeled shoes. Indeed the Chinese girls are quite amusing flappers sometimes—shocking some times—so much so that the officials have felt it necessary to issue procla mations commanding them to dress modestly. The girls have even learn ed to flirt in the most up-4;o-date way. That's freedom! They danca in the latest style. They ride horses, astride, with boots and riding breech es. “That’s English, you know.” Once the ideal for girls was that they be able to do beautiful needle work at home. Now they are doing other things. They are clerks in stores. Some are typists and stenog raphers. Some are bankers. They play the organ or piano or other musical instruments. Some are be coming movie artists or actresses. Some are lawyers and judges and doctors, are teachers and kinder garteners. They even become soldiers and sometimes they become Gener als’ secretaries. Women also become street-corner politicians and scream the revolutionary platitudes such as, “Down with imperialism,” “Give the people freedom,” to beat the most zealous men revolutionaries. Rarely do you see meetings for propaganda or riots without seeing girls or wo men taking active part in them, urg- ❖ <*■ Here at Last! Another Shipment Packards and Connelly’s Calf Dress Shoes just as before. (Broad toes of course) All Fresh and New. W. F. GIBBS & SON Here’s hoping the Aggies ride the Ponies.