The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-14

parchment, which contains in wate +
lines a gigantic American eagle and
seal of the Department o State.
AS to baggage | carry three trunks
and two val.sss. and it Is as necessary
for traveller here to have his evening
suit and swallo tailed coat as it is at
Washington. l carry also cheap So 80
nickle watch in addition TO my gold
one, for the differences of time in trav-
cling necessitates so many changes that
it would ruin any t1ne piece of machin-
cry. This watch has twsnty-four feet
of spring. and it taxes one long time
to wind it, though it is stem winder.
By holding the screw on the wheel of q
jinriksha it winds itself in no time, and
1t does not seem to hurt the watch. As
to clothing, one needs good supply of
shirts and neckwear, and if you wish
any books of reference you had better
bring them with you, as books are very
high abroad. Hats and underwear you
can get anywhere, and [ find that
/ clothing is much cheaper here than in
| America.
The moment arrived at the Grand
hotel in Yokohama 1 was called upon
by Chinese tailor, An Shlng was bis
name. He brought lot of samples
with him and took my measure on the
spot, He made me suits of the best
white flannel serge for SO suit and the
fit was a good one He was hardly out
of the door before another tailor of
Yokohama, Mr.. Chang Chow, came in
and took my order for a suit of blue
flannel at SO, white vest at ST. so and
suit of pyjamas at So. Pyjamas are the
night clothes of the east. They are
composed of pair of loose dr. iwers and
a jacket which buttons up loose at the
neck, and which is he at the waist by
draw string. They are made of fsn-
mel. silk or cotton, according to the
taste of the wearer, and it is all right
here to appear in them from after din
ner in the evening until breakfast time
in the morning. Ladies wear them as
well as gentle men, but they add a wrap
per to the suit. and quite number OF
the foreign men here add kimona or
Japanese gown.
AS Chang Chow measured nae for nv
| Pyjsma he Jabbered at me in pigeon
English about his American customers
He was plump, Acknowledged, yellow
skinned young fellow, with a cue which
reached to his heels, aud with laven-
dar silk gown which would have made
q White House reception dress. His
cue fairly shook while he tried to de-
scribe the big frame of Governor Hub
bard, our Minister Plenipotentiary TO
Japan. Governor Hubbard is almost
as heavy as George Barnes, of Georgia.
| who rejoices in the title of being the
latest man in Congress. He makes q
silhouette something like that of Ben.
Butler, and he is as big around the
wsisJ as Sam Cox is tall. Governor
Hubbard is by no means q short man,
and his frame eats up cloth as q corn
| shelter chews corn. Fatness in the
east is q sign of wealth, and Chang
Chow could hardly express his admira.
| ton and wonder at our minister's
shape.
Hubbard belly great man." said he;
"come to Yokohama to have him
clothes made. He takee muchee goods
Muchee goods
"You ought to charge more. Chang"
said I.
Course" replied the Celestial
"Havee chafgee more! One man
makee vest. costee dollar and q half.
Makee Hubbard vest costee two dollar
a half. Costee one man suit chenty
(twenty) dollar, CHARGE Hubbard forty
dollar. He so bigee lound takee alice
cloth. Hubbard belly great man |!
Belly great mani" And with that the
Chinese tailor spread out his yellow
hands and opened his eyes. In the
meantime l find that Governor Hub
bard has made many friends here, but
he is now up in the country at Mike,
and have not met him.
IL addition to clothes, one 81 ould
take supply OF simple medicines with
him, and if he is fastldious in the use of
soaps and perfumery, he had better lay
in good stock of articles of the tCiiet
One wants by all odds a steamer chair
and warm rugs as well as heavy over
coat for sea voyages. A pocket filter
and an alcohol stove are among the
requisites, in this country boil all my
water before drinking it. have also a
complete photographing apparatus, and
| | will illustrate some of my future let
| tiers with views taken on the spot, of
| the strange characters and scenes
which are all around me. [ do not as
yet find my baggage cumbersome, and
would not dispense with a single trunk.
Some lady travellers are apt to think
| that they can go around the world in
black silk dress and linen buster, and
the foreign residents here tell strange
stories OF some characters. One girl from
| Boston who came out here to act as
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done some very good mission work, too :,
wept tears of sorrow with her friends
| before she came cut to labor among the
heather. She packed away all her
party dresses and left her jewelry at
home. She expected to find none but
the Japanese to associate with, and she
evidently thought that the Japanese in
culture ranked with the inhabitants of
the Congo. She found at Yokohama.
as l did, some of the best dressed
women in the world, and upon being
invited to several of the parties of the
foreign settlement, concluded that her
best dresses and her finest Jewels
would be of as much use to her here
as at holue. 1t is in travelling as at q
hotel. The nobby suit gets the bridal
chamber and the rags go to the attic.
Letters of Introduction and good
clothes are more of necessity here
than anywhere else.
| In the meantime Japan gets along
with less clothes than any other nation
l have ever seen, and its picturesque
characters will enable my camera to
give you some good representations of
the anatomy of the human form as it
exists among this nation of the mon
golians. FRANK G. CARPENTER.