Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-09-23

travelling abroad are frumpy to the last
degree. They looked like wax dolls OF
the eighteenth century. Their hair
hung down by the side Of their faces I'm
stiff eurls, and over their foreheads In
bangs Their dresses were rieh in ma
terial but extremely ungracefuI In cut,
the skirts being shaped by hoops into
seemingly ~inf1exible cones. In short,
Costumes We're Carieaiures
Of the current fashions-a characteristic
AnglIciation Of styles which French
and American women wear gracefully.
Ny companion told me that Angeles
dress was made Of pink silk, with q big
ruching OF red silk round the bottom,
high puts on the shoulders, and q mar
row red sasherossing = plain waist, open
IN the back. i could see for myself that
she was still handsome, IN spite Of this
assumed English dowdfuess and an &C.
companying angularity Of action. An
gele is indeed q beauty, and her face
keeps you from looking much at her
enormous feet and hands. The color
Of Aimee's costume was altogether
canary which was in 3 wide band
around the bottom Of the skirt, and
about the Old-fashioned low neck of the
bodice. If the effect in Angeles case
vas enbaneingly quaint, the same must
not be said OF Aimee. She was success
fully funny, but, whereas, up to this
scene, arttul toilets had concealed her
advance in age-nOw she is exposed as
45-as laughable as q grotesque come
dian, but for the time being devoid OF
pIettiness.
Near me in this audience sat Japan
ese. He wasclOthed, not only in Ameri-
can style, but in regulation evening
dress. His hair was cut and combed
fastidiously, his garments were IS good
in fit as q Fifth venue tailor could
make them, and In all but his
yellow Complexion and Oriental
features he was like the rest of the dan
dies. He came with 8 party of New
Workers, and was himself the escort of
a rich merchants daughter. 1t is q
curious fact that this mans presence in
the parquet of 8 theatre, and in soeia-
bility with refined white folks, was by
no means exceptional. There are many
japanese engaged in mercantile busi-
mess here, and a a rule they associate
with cultured people. They take read
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our polite society, and make themselves
so agreeable that they seldom meet with
rebuffs on account of their race. This
is in direct contrast with our hatred of
their national next door neighbor, the
Chinese, of whom / have never seen a
representative in y New York parlor. l
spoketo a japanese acquaintance about
this.
Japan is higher in civilization than
China, to begin WITH" he said; "but
there is no such difference between the
countries as you see in the Immigrants.
Japanese who come TO this country are
mainly either rich tradesmen of cOnsid-
cradle account at home or bright young
fellows sent here to be educated. We
have hOrdes Of ignorant and more or
less vicious people, but not IN the extent
or proportion that is to be found in
China. 1t is from this class that your
Chinese are drawn. You see, therefore,
specimens from the top Of Japan and
Abe Bottom OF China.
That Is fortunate for you japanese
gentlemen who come here" | suggested.
That is true" he assented, $50 far as
IL lDSures Us consideration in good SOci-
ely; bat it makes it bad for us i'm the
streets sometimes, with people who
dent EnOw a japanese from q China.
man. | have frequently been insulted
in consequence Of the prejudice against
the Chinese. They don't discriminate.
What they ought to do is to look for q
pig-tail before they conclude that every
chap with almond eyes and yellow skin
is a Chinaman."
We discussed between acts the age of
Aimee. He said that IN Japan there
was no dislike among women to letting
their ages be known. Indeed, they dis
play the facts as to their age in the ar
rangement of their hair. Girls from 8
to ID wear their hair interlaced with red
describing a h~alf-circle round the
head, the forehead being left free, with
q curl at each side. From 10 to 30 the
hair is dressed very high on the fore
head, and put up at the back in the
shape Of q fan or butterfly, with inter
Of silver cOrd aud "A decoration
D fcOlOred balls. Beyond Sd a woman
Twists Her Hair Round n Shell Pin
horizontally st the back of the
bead. Widows also designate them
and whether or not they desire
to marry again.
Here in New York" said the Japan
csc, "the ladies quite bewilder one as 20
their age. I sometimes think that they
intend to mislead on that point. No?
I wrong them? Then why do the
matrOns comb their hair like the maid
ems, and act like them, too? You can't
tell a wife from girl, if she isa stranger,
nor a widow from either. 1 should
think this would lead to awkward mis-
takes. The first thing you know you
might find yourself flirting with a mar
ried woman"
Hirsute honesty of the Japanese or
any other sort is not likely soon to pre-
vail among our women. Perfect cSndCr
as to hair would reveal bald heads, for
instance, and that is too much to ex-
pect of the sex, A theatrical manager
Inld Inc Of producing a farce in which
one character was a bald woman. II
happened that the actress who was cast
for the part had no hair on the top OF
bar head. But did she avail herself of
natural advantage? No, indeed.
She wore 3 wig over the bare spot, as
usual, and thereon laid some paipably
false badness. This actress, you under
was q woman. r. +.
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