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The article cites the contribution of Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of schools in Chicago, Illinois, to the education of girls in the city. Young emphasized the need to impart social grace to school girls. She emphasized that learning how to be socially correct and graceful is as distinctly an education accomplishment as to learning how to solve mathematical problems. In this context, Young has implemented a social hour for girls in the schools.

The article reports on the appointment of the teacher, Shizuko Takeda, to study modern methods of women's education by the Empress of the Japanese Imperial Household Department in Japan. Takeda was the former teacher of the Empress, and she will be leaving for Europe and U.S. for advanced education to be applied for the girls in Japan. She will be spending one year in the U.S. and one year in Europe as part of her advanced educational training.

The article relates the experiences of the authors. One author recalls that when she told a story, which did not reflect upon woman's chastity, at the club dinner table, the men listening to the narration were laughing at her. The other author, on the other hand, refers his experience when he attended his second football game in a lighted field and asserted how the lights affected his eyes the next day.