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mental In bringing aout, successful?
Other school have not glveu up
tt.elr student councils on account of
the war.
ALUMNA IN CHINA .
WRITES OF COUNTRY
Genevieve Lowry, '16, Writes
of Her Experiences
HAS CHARGE OF SCHOOL
Says Varied Forms of Work Sur
rounded by Oriental Language and
Costumes Is Fascinating
RED CROSS REPORT
Number of dressings mad jes-
terday
Number made lat Thursday and
Fridav lTO)
t
Total
About half the girls who signed
for the work were at the rooms ye:
terday afternoon. 6 out of 123; of
the 65, twenty-six had never been in
the rooms before.
University women must do better
than they did yesterday to accom
plish anything worthy of a school
this size.
A CHALLENGE TO NEBRASKA
GIRLS
To University of Nebraska girls
has come the challenge to think In
terms of world democracy for which
American men are giivng their lives.
Our response to the opportunity of
fered by our Nebraska In China Week
will measure our interest in the perm
anent forces which make for the peace
of the world. The national secre
tary of the Young Woman's Christian
Association of China, Miss Grace Cop-
pock, holds a position of unparalleled
influence among all the women of
that great land, who have as yet no
other nation-wide woman's organiza
tion. To us, in our opportunity to
support Miss Coppock "there comes
a greater challenge than could come
in the support of any other secretary
in China. Ail of the city work, all of
the work among the women in homes,
all of the physical education work, all
of the college work, all of the indus
trial work which is undertaken under
the Association in China is upr-rvi.ed
by Miss Coppock.
Because of the greatness of the work
which Mis Coppock represents, Ne
braska girls are challenged to tet a
standard for other Universities. I
have every confidence that Xebr&ka
girls have a large enough vli-ion to
respond In a way &kh wj'.l do them
credit.
FAN'S' IE DRAKE..
OUR SERVICE FLAG
Several months ago the All-Univer-Mty
party committee voted to ue siif
ficlent funds frm the All-Ur.ivensity
party treasury to purchase a Univer
sity of Nebraska eivce flag. The flag
has not appeared.
The reason, doubtiess, i that no one
has teen definitely appointed to pur
chase the flag. The school year will
oon be over. The committee has bad
enough time to secure the flag. The
list of Nebraska soldiers may easily
be obtained at the alumni office. The
committee in charge should either ex
plain the delay or secure the flag.
THE STUDENT COUNCIL
la Nehratka to Lave a student coun
cil next year? Obviously not. unless
elections for the council are held this
spring.
The reason we bave not had a stu
dent council government this year U'.
lhu Eagberg and a number cf th
students who were interested in the
council believed that a war year would
be an inopportune time to launch it.
They realized that University men,
etpectilly the older men who would
logically be members of the council,
would be constantly leaving school.
They feared that as a result the coun
cil would be wea.k and unsucceaiful.
It seems the ar wCl last longer
than we believed. The student who
bave been Interested is a student cotn
cll.thoiie.wbo tave worked for 1L will
be through - before the war is
flubbed- Will future student ba suf
ficiently Interested to make a sew
plan, wbich tbey bave tot ben Inntru-
I Miss Genevieve Lowry. '16. now in
t China working in connection w ith Miss
Grace Coppock, national secretary of
the Young Women's Christian Asso
ciation of China, has written a very
interesting lettvr to the local organira
tion from her headquarters In Nanking
in which she describes her voyage
through Japan, started last October,
her first Impressions of the Orient, and
her daily work with the native child
ren in her classes.
"After school on Mondajs." she J
writes. "I have a class in English con
versation at the Y. M. C. A. I am
really interested in it and even my
boys poem to enjoy it. At recess time,
instead of playing, thej crowd up
close to me and ask me all manner of
questions. To be very polite in China
one should always ask your age, com
ment upon each article of clothing you
wear, and ask its price. It is said that
in certain places, you are even asked
if your teeth are real and your hair is
your own.
Following Is the letter 6he has writ
ten in part:
The past three months liave been
too crowded with thrilling experiences
to give me much time to devote to
such commonplace duties as letter
writing. Often my conscience has
pricked but I have kept right on pro
crastinating. Meantime it has come
to that pass that I douM if ever I can
caCch up either with my correspond
ence or with the events of these
months.
It seems better to begin away back
at the beginning so to go back to the
crossing. The trip was much colder
and rougher than I had expected. At
one time SO per cent of the passengers
were victims of mal de mere. The
Empress of Russia is one of the largest
and fastest liners on the Pacific. We
had a fine table, good service, really
nothing to complain of but the mo
notony of Just doing nothing. It did
seem good to see land once more, even
if it were thousands of miles from
home side. Bright- and early on the
morning of October 2 we sighted the
terraced hills, squat huts, queer boats
of Japan. Our first glimpse of the
flower land was through gu-fts of driv
ing rain. The tiny 'doll-like kimoned
figures, both men and women, as well
as the adorable kiddies, clumped and
clattered along the streets on tbeir
queer wooden shoes which are raised
from street Ivel by little cross pieces
of wood or bair.boo. Some few car
ried foreign umbrella?, but fortunately
the Urg'-r number were protected by
native oil paper shower sticks of
enorn.ou proportions and decorated
;'h fascinating designs.
Coaling Ship by Hand
Kobe, the Inland Sea, Nagasaki.
M';gi were all Interesting but it will
(Continued to Page Three)
AS WE SEE A CHINESE
WEDDING FEAST
(Continued from page one.)
the other men were dressed in Chinese
clothes. The groom U afxtven, a stu
dent still at St. John's College, where
he will return after the ceremony is
all over and be has had his China New
Year holiday.
With the groom were four "middle
men," and niw brother as a sort of
best man Beside the grvm was an
old man, apparently as employee, who
fold him 'it each zt:v what- to 4 :
Tie poor V'iv grenrj wa as nervous
f "'.y .vmcrican m.vi at h-s own bi?
church wedding. After he arrived he
had to d? hszor u the bouaebold In
order. This Is a kind of introductory
service. First be meets the father and
mother. In a Chines room there are
"higher" and lower" places. So
when the father and mother came they
stood In the blgbest places, the groom
rather "low." lie made a very low
bow to each. There was master of
ceremonies who remind one of the
old-time dances you read of where
there Is a person who calls out the
figures of the dance as they come.
So be sang out to a wonder-sort of
singsong tune, "bow low three times"
and so on with the order of the day.
After ths father and mother came th
sons and daughters-in-law. In bow
ing Ibis time be ood In line with
them, for tby are of the same genera
tion. Bui when the grandchildren
come In for thHr introductions he
stood above them.
After the Introduction wore nil ov r
the groom and hi attendants were
seated to" partake of light refresh
ment. Then we returned to the wom
an's apartments whero th wedding
"feast" wa awaiting u. Th.re were
three tables spread with small silver
dishes. As we waited the bride came
in. She ia more than twenty but she
looks like a little girl, though It was
really qui: difficult to know how she
looked at the wedding as you will
perceive when I have described to
mil how she was dressed. 5aa n.m
on a wonderfully embroidered rohe-of
red salin which shone and sparkled
with the gold and silver threads, on
her head was a most remarkable head
dress, difficult to describe. It was made
of pearls on a frame work of wire and
stood out from her head. From it
hung bunches of pearls and little silk
decorations'. They told us that it had
taken two hours to arrange her hair
and nut on the head dress. A'hile we
were waiting, before the bride came
the bride's veil had arrived sent
from the groom's home. In a red
lacquer tub effect. The veil was of
delicate pink chiffon. This wearing
of a veil Is In imitation of western
custom. One wondered how it would
look on top of all that head dress.
On her hands the bride wore pink
silk gloves, but around them was
wrapped a pink slik handkerchief ac
cording to the old Chinese custom.
As a protection against the public
gaze she wore deep green spectacles
can you Imagine the effect? Poor
little girl, she looked pale and ex
hausted, and the really was ill. For
days the whole family had been up
late with the preparation and she was
quite worn out. The night before she
had been up until 3 o'clock getting
her trunks packed and making final
preparations to enter the home of
her mother In-law. They told us that
they had been preparing for a whole
year for this wedding. No wonder the
family seemed quite worn out. The
old mother quite frequently left the
table and went to smoke a cigarette
by the fire to sooth her tired nerves.
While we were sitting at the feast
which was about thirty courses in
length, including sharks' fins, birds
nest soup, pigeon eggs and all the
rest, the groom together with his at
tendants returned to his home, from
where he sent the bridal chair for his
bride. We could not give the time
necessary to see the ceremony through
at the home of the groom, but it would
continue as follows: The groom would
meet his bride at the entrance of his
father's house and lead her into the
large reception room where the final
ceremony would be held. This must
be a very trying part of the whole per
formance for It is the first time the
two ee one another. After the cere
mony is finished the two receive their
friends.
The day after the wedding the bride
returns to her mother's home to call
and then after that she takes up her
abode with her mother-in-law while
her young husband returns to college.
The future of the bride so far as her
happiness is concerned, depends more
at least for the first few years, upon
the mother in-law than upon the hus
band. Let us hope that in this case
the young daughter-in-law will win the
love of her hueband's relatives and be
bappy in her new home.
Temple Theatre
The University Players
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