Wanted: a Concubine

In Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines to provide him with heirs.

That Oriental young women have ideals distinctively their own appeared in Tokyo, where students at the Government's "schools for prospective wives" lately voted by large majorities that the ideal Japanese suitor is a rather stout man with a steady job who secures his fiancee through a broker, takes his wife home to live comfortably with his parents and three times per month escorts her to the theatre or a movie.

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