Foreign News: Wise Wives

While the strong men of China welter in anarchy (see above), and her great diplomats flounder be wildered (see below), are there not any cool-browed, wise Chinese wives who keep their own council but contrive to be more important than they seem — perhaps most important? There are many such. But only two wise wives loom from China today upon the international scene. Of these two, one is, strictly speaking, a widow. Both learned the wiles of men and nations in the U. S.

Mrs. V. K. Wellington Koo. It is unfashionable never to...

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