Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-06-20


Description Of MT. Mutsus the J4pAAeos
Minister. and His Wife.
The present Minister, Mr.. Mutsu. il
. typical Japanese. 1.-the, slender.
active. alert. a polished gentleman
and deep thinker. He is swarthy,
and his eyes are as black as night He
learned to speak English in Japan, and
while he doesn't speak it huently, he
expresses himself very well and under
stands readily. He is a devoted hus-
band and very proud of his pretty
wife, who has but to look as if she de-
sired any thing to get it He is in
favor of the highest position for
women, and advocates their advance
ment and freedom Mr.. Mutsu was
appointed by the Emperor Governor
of Yokohama, and several years after
wards political complications arose
and he was thrown into prison, where
he was confined for four years and a
half. After the political upheaval he
was released. honors were conferred
upon him. and on the recall of Minister
Kuki the Emperor made him his Min
lister to the United States. During his
Incarceration the cholera broke out in
the prison and his wife greatly feared
that he would be victim to it. She
then had to care for his two little boys
by former marriage and her own in
FAINT daughter. She was then quite
young herself. and had little more ex-
perience of life than child. For the
distress she endured then he is trying
to make up now by his tender care
and his admiration for her courage
and self-reliance is unbounded.
Nine. Mutsu, although she is the
mother of a daug liter taller than her
self, and has not the slightest objec-
ton to telling her age up to the latest
date. is very young and girlish look
ing; far more youthful. in fact, than
many a belle who has been out
season or two. She is by far
the prettiest Japanese lady ever
seen in Washington. She is Pc
tite, with a pretty, graceful figure,
and the tiniest hands and feet imagin-
able. Her skin is of that smooth. sat
my texture resulting from the hot
baths SO universal in Japan, and is a
clear olive in hue; her cheeks are like
the damask rose and ner eyes large
and dark and sparkling with intelli-
gence- Her eyebrows are straight and
delicately penciled. and her abundant
coal black hair is rolled back from her
forehead and coiled on top of her
head. Her teeth are white and even
and her lips are full and ripe-red. Her
expression is very quiet, but when she
smiles her whole face lights up and
becomes radiant Unlike most jap
anese her face is perfect oval, and in
the American dress, which she has
adopted, one has to look a second time
to assure himself that she belongs to
another race. As one of the ladies in
waiting to the Empress, she became
accustomed to foreign dress and liked
it.
She is fragile. delicate little Great
ure, with scarcely muscle enough to
lift an ordinary chair. and looks with
wonder On the activity of American
ladies. She rarely walks except in
the garden behind the house, and has
walked on the street but once in the
day time (then just around the block
with a LADY,. and twice at night for a
short distance with her husband She
is fond of going out visiting, etc, but
doesn't take the mad delight in shop
ping for nothing that we do. She
dosen't go shopping except when she
really. wants something. selects
quickly what she wants. and that is
the end of it.-Washington Letter