The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-15
THE DoINGs OF woMENFoLK
Who Hail From the Land of the
Mikado and Other Regions.

Oyana, wife of the japanese mi lister of
war, is one of the few ladies of the court
circle at Toxic who receive" at their own
homes in the native costume which Euro
pean fashions are so fast driving out Of the
land of the Mikado. The countess prefers
the comfortable and picturesque Japanese
dress to the foreign costumes which tue
court has adopted, and this in spite of the
fact that she is Que of the firsG Japanese
women educated in America. having grad
uated at Vassar in 1892, the only woman
of her race who has received the baccalau-
reate degree Stematz Yamakawa, as she
was known before her marriage, spent
about ten years in this country, coming
with the Japanese embassy of 1872 aud re-
turning so thoroughly Americanized that
she almost forgot ner own language. She
is remembered by her college mates as an
| extremely attractive girl, pretty even to
American eyes, tall, graceful and well
| formed The return TO her native
| country was to her something of an ordeal.
| She came here a girl of H. adopted
| the christian religion and the customs and
| habits of thought of western civilization
and went back marriageble woman Of %
with the knowledge that her parents would
| Immediately find husband for her, very
| possibly one not at all in sy npathy with her
| the Count Iwao Oyana who was himself
educated in France and as whose wife she
| has taken immediate rank in social and
| philanthropic circles in TOXIC. A number
| # Japanese women have since come to this
| country as tudents, and several are here
| now. Miss Shige Nagai entered the Vassar
| School IF Music in 1878 and made a love
match with Lieut.. Uliu of the japanese
| navy, who was educated by his government
at our naval academy at Annapolis, and
| first met is piquant countrywoman at a
| Nassar fete to which a number Of Annapo-
| lis youth were invited. The wedding was
| agreed upon before either returned home.
| Ole of the festivities attendant on the
| marriage in Toxic was the amateur presen-
tation of Tine Merchant Of Venice" be-
| fore the urt aud Mikado. Miss Ume
Tsuda studied at the Archer Institute in
| Washington, and is now teaching in Toxic
in the Peeresses' school for Japanese noble
| women.
Miss Kin Kato, who returned to Japan
| this summer, spent some time as special
student at Wellesley Miss Ma Ia Kuroda,
VINO is now in New York, is m king special
study of XII dergarten methods. One or
| two Japanese girls have taken courses at the
| New Haven and other trainil schools for
| nurses, and one OF the most industrious
| students in the classes at the Art Studel ITS
| League at the present time is bright and
| interesting Japanese girl. japanese women
| have graduated from our normal schools
for teachers, and one at least has done we'll
| at medical school,
The pretty and artistic costumes worn by
| ladies at the early autumn entertainments
Owe much of their brilliancy and pictuc-
| sequences to the revival in popularity of
the exqulsitelv painted fans which our
grandmolhers fancied as fitting compile
ments to their simple esthetc, loosely
wing gowns. Of these none are more
disastrous and bewildering in effect when
used as toy by white and dimpled fingers
to shade bright eyes than Marie Antoi-
ne te fans of primrose or blush pink silk
with romantic but impossible maidens
masquerading with equally unreal esquireS.
A very dainty desig is by an artist ia H.
Gus over half the world. The fan is of
black silk, the picture is night, with stars
burning clear To the left two female
figures are falling through space, Falero's
famous twin stars. In the distance similar
, figures are dimly repeated and all the sur
face is star sown. A magnolia white gauze
fan claims your attention. Disks an inch
and half in diameter are wrought upon it
IN silk embroide Y; within eacn disk is
delicate bit Of opaline sky, and in this silken
atmosphere a flower blooms or a butterfly
floats For $500 it is yours. Mrs. Kendall
q
ure Of fan, painted by Albert, who does
/ wonderful things on gauze. A ballet dancer
in black poses against pale yellow. The face
and dreS, are done with a miniature touch
SO perfect you would swear it was photo
graph Mrs. ke dial his mania for col
Letting ia s, and an Albert or a Houghton
she finds irresistible Another fan In her
cabinet is dance of nymphs, and another,
children chasing butterflies The costlies6
of these lovely trihes ablaze with splendid
water colors have sti ks of irridescent pea ri
ornamented with enameled flowers aud
diamonds, rivets of gold, and a body of kid
or silk painted perhaps with court or fete
, scene by Nine. Chennebiere. Fans have
s Id in New York as high as 5000 Lace
fals often cost as much as those which are
, painted. Point lace, Duchesse. Valenci-
| ennes is stretched on pearl or tortoise STICKS
aud sprinkled with diamonds The painted
fan has the vogue OF the season. 1t is
! shown in a glass frame at the great dry
| goods openings, straight from the French
} exposition, but nothing after all can GUST
the ostrich plume. Magnificent feather
fans sell as low as $50 and seldom run
above 800. Comparatively poor people
can have them, you see.
1t is at the theater that the autumn types
, and phases of fashion can just now be best
) observed. Here the august danes and
DAINTY damSels OF the 4UO aN tasting the
fresh pleasurer Of the opening season, and
) sit best ie their less distinguished sisters of
the 10000 all in their new fall frocks and
equally interesting to look on. Ia the or
chestra one night last week the wife of
Manager A. Nj. Palmer aired one of her
! Paris gowns, heliotrope silk striped with
narrow lines Of white aud made with a
Directory redingote over a skirt Of plain
r hellotrope armure. Upon the csrsage was
a deem mouSouetaira collar ana 6ch,, ~
white lace, AID the wAap Of holiotrope