A  very  large  proportion  (59  percent)  of  the  women  of  the
Ch'i  Hua  Men  families  cannot  read,  but  this  is  not  surprising
considering  the  district  in  which  they  live,  the  available  oppor-
tunities for  education,  the  attitude  of  most  of  the  Chinese  toward
the  education  of  women  and  particularly  the  size  of  the  family
incomes.  The  41  percent  who  can  read  is  a  much  larger  propor-
tion than  will  be  found  in  the  ordinary  Chinese  community.  Even
now  in  Peking,  only  one  in  twenty  of  the  girls  of  school  age  is  in
school,  and  in  all  of  China  only  one  in  three  hundred.
The  efforts  of  the  missionaries  to  educate  those  with  whom
they  come  in  contact  have  certainly  produced  results  and  these
results  are  shown  by  the  high  degree  of  literacy  of  the  Chinese
families.  All  of  the  Teng  Shih  K'ou  and  Pei  T'ang  families  have
at  least  one  member  who  can  read,  and  while  there  are  12  of  the
Ch'i  Hua  'Men  families  in  which  no  one  can  read,  the  condition
is  not  as  bad  as  it  seems.  Ten  of  the  12  are  families  with  one
member,  while  the  other  two  have  two  and  three  members.
