Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-24

screw earrings which we are now using come
from the far East and you will find thousands
of them in India. The Indian girls punch holes
all along the edge of the ear from the lobe up to
the top, and they screw these earrings into
them. They also screw rings into the roots of
their noses, and the blacker the skin the more
anxious the women seem to be to ornament 1t.
In travelling in China saw at Annoy q woman
who was carrying the dirtiest kind of Stops
through the slums of thes city. She was bare
footed. barelegged, and she wore cotton gown
which cost about fifteen cents. Still, she had
dozen great silver hair pins each foot long
stuck into her waterfall, and bunch OF roses
was pinned at the breast of her blue cotton
shift.
PRETTY FEET ALL THE WORLD OVER.
Not q few of the women OF the world ornament
their feet, and in India girls often wear bells on
their toes. have seen hundreds of them
trAmping along in their bare feet and m akiug in
reality, in the words Of the old nursery rhyme,
Emusic as they went along. These bells are
of silver, gold or white metal, according to the
wealth of the maiden. They are good deal
like sleigh-bels, and are fastened to the top of
ring like a fnger-ring that goes around the toe.
In some cases a woman will have five of these
bells on each foot, and in others only the rings
are used and no bells. About three-fourth of
the women of the world go barefooted and some
Of the prettiest feet that you find anywhere are
those of India and the far East. The Chinese
woman would naturally have pretty foot were
II not for the custom Of COMPRISING it to make
it smaller than 1t is. The Chinese are beauti-
fully formed, they have small bones and are the
arts eocfnts of the world. The Manchu women Of
North China do not compress the feet and their
limbs are as beautiful as those of the Venus of
the capitol. The empress OF China wears number
two shoe and no woman with a compressed foot
IS allowed in the royal palace. The bulk OF the
women OF China, however, are not Manchus and
there are at least $50, 000 600 Of wives and
maidens in China who have compressed feet
There is a woman at Canton, China who can
stand and spin around on trade dollar without
letting her shoe come outside the rim. Her foot
is one OF the kind that the Chinese go into rap
lures over under the name OF the golden lilly
II is horriblet thing however, when it Is OUT
side Of the shoe. You find that the maiden has
merely been standing on her toe and that her
This squeezing commences at the time the
girl Is I'VE years old and often when
she is younger. The toes are tied under the
foot, the heel is squeezed down towards the
is terribly painful and 1t results in making the
women cripples. It takes away all the beauty
of the calf and there is n lot pound OF flesh ON
any one of these IT,, 000, 600 Chinese women be-
low the knee. have photograph in my DOS
session of Chinese woman's foot. Her leg is
merely the shin bone covered with flesh as far
as the knee, and yet her face Is fat and her
arms are plump. The Chinese women fsttsp
easily and fairness is the sign Of beauty The
Japanese wonsn's foot is small and delicate.
difference between it and the prettiest of the
American article, is In the spreading apart Of the
big Toe from the other toes OF the foot. This
comes from the Japanese stocking and the Japa-
nese shoe. The Japanese stocking reaches only
about three inches above the ankle. It is q sort
OF q mitten, with one finger for the big toe, and
the string Of the sandle comes between the big
toe and the rest OF the little toes, forcing them
apart. The Japanese girl Is always well dressed
and she wears one Of the mos. picturesque cos
powder andknows as much about hair oil as her
American sister.
THE WATERFALLS OF TEE ORIENT
The Japanese woman has the most gorgeous