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In Chinatown
The Chinese vote which is about six hundred strong will soon be swelled to very
respectable proportions. The reason is that a great many Chinese women are going
to vote. This may seem surprising to people who do not know the downtodate woman
of San Francisco’s Chinatown, but to those who are acquainted with that
interesting creature who shops in our most fashionable establishments, enjoys
all our amusements and has learned to adapt occidental fashions to her oriental
style of dress without spoiling its peculiar charm, it does not come as a shock
or as a surprise to learn that Chinese women are going to vote. But the Chinese
women are in a slightly different position from their white sisters. They are
not anxious to vote. So at least I am told by a Chinese of intelligence and
information. He says the Chinese women will vote because the men of their
families want them to.
The Spectator
Town Talk The Pacific Weekly
April 13, 1912
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