The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-08-24

entiys however. from the AfDO3. ana Leu
tenant kibZack OF the navy, vino spent
some years In Alaska in the employ OF the
museum. has prepared report upon this
subject, which Is now in press He says
That the Haira tribe, of Alaska have re-
duced tattOoing to . fine art, and that the
women frequently tattoo fiager-rings uFon
their hands afd bracelets upon their arms
1t often takes several years to tattoo a
woman pfaperly. and the legs and breasts
are fatfooed ss well ~ the faces and arms.
Iaftooing b done among the ThibetaHs and
IN the HImaiaya mountains you will
see women with their cheeks SCARED and
red paint rubbed into them Among some
Of the fashionable ladies of gapan--I mean
English ladies' living in Japan-tattooing
has gotten TO be quite fad. and man
who returned last week from the East, I'm
showing me a red, white and blue design
which had been pricked by tattooer
upon his arm. told me that . half dozen
fashionable ladies' at Kobe. Japan, had had
pictures made on certain parts OF their
bodies by this man. / could hardly be-
Heve him, but be assured me that il was
fact 1t Is only the men among the Japan
csc who tattoo and the Japanese girl keeps
her beautiful skin clean. II IL the same
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fui women OF the Orient the yenuses of
Japan and Barmah are the most beautiful
They have skins a. white as ours. Their
forms are as plump and their eyes rs bright
and their smiles as Winning. The only
difference il in the conformation OF the
features and In the dress and in certain
ideas Of adornment which make up what
they consider beauty.
EAEs PRETTY AND OTHERWISE.
There is no prefsier ear in the world than
that OF Yum Yum. II 10 dainty IS that Of
baby's and It's color is q delicate coral.
II 10 never deisced with earrings and IL
sits on each side Of Yum Yum's Jersey
cream face fit ornament to one OF the
sweetest pictures you viii End in the world
Of womanbood. Her hair Is well pulled up
from II. and II you could separate It from
the whole IL alone would form enough OF
attraction to make the blood jump In your
veins. The Venus OF Burmah has naturally
just as pretty an ear. but she runs 1t by
her ear plug. As soon as she reaches that
age at which our girls begin TO lengthen
their dresses her ear Is bored by profess
sionaI ear-borer, and this boring makes her
q young woman. 1t is done with great
ceremony. Her mother gives party, and all
tnt lflEE03 tDD& Oti " HE rnt ID tBIOHls oOWA
on the ground and golden wire Is thrust
through the lobe Of her ear and twisted into
q ring. After the sore Is healed bigger
wire is put in. This Is followed by bigger
one, until the hole becomes as large around
as a mans thumb. Then plug of gold,
silver or glass IL put into the ear and is worn
there from this time on as an ornament.
These plugs are sometimes studded with
S1 g1a anil {xsf he II ffxrr oil
they are very costly. Among the poorer
Burmese women the holes are enlarged I'M
til you could put a napkin ring inside of
them. The Burmese cigar is about
three times as big around as
the ordinary Havana and the Bur-
mese women often carry their cigars
around in their ears. In some cases the
ears are pulled out so that they will hang
almost to the shoulders, and have seen
photographs of such ears which contained
holes large enough TO me to have put my
fist through. This ear boring is done by
some of the East Indian maidens, and the
daughters OF the kings deface themselves
in this way. As to nose rings the Indian
women have all sorts of them. and you
win find that about half the women in the
world ornament their noses. There are all
sorts of nose rings here in the national
museum. The women OF Foochow, China,
wear thin ring of silver as big around as
the bottom of tin cup, in their noses, and
in eating they put the food through the
ring into their mouths. The little 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 it. In
travelling in China i saw at Annoy a
woman who was carrying the dirtiest kind
of Stops through the slIms of the city. She
was barefooted and barelegged and she
wore q cotton gown that cost about Is
cents. Still she had q dozen great silver
hair pins, each foot long, stuck into her
waterfall and q bunch of roses was pinned
a. the breast of her blue cotton shirt.
PRETTY FEET ALL THE WORLD OVER
Not few of the women of the world or
nament their feet. and in India girls often
wear bells on their toes. have seen hun
dreds of them tramping along in their bare
feet and making In reality, in the words of
went along. These bells are of silver. gold
or white metal, according to the wealth of
the maiden. They are a good deal like
sleighbells. and are fastened to the top of
ring like a lingering 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-fourths of the women OF the
world go barefooted, and some of the pref
tiest feet that you find anywhere
are those of India and The far East. The
Chinese women would naturally have a
pretty foot, were ii not for the system of
COMPRISING it to make it smaller than it
is. The Chinese are beautifully formed.
They have small bones and are the aristo
| Gratis 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, 900, 900 of wives
and maidens in China who have COM
pressed feet. There is 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 raptures over
under the name of the golden lily. 1t is
horrible thing, however, when il is outside
| of the shoe. You find that the maiden has
merely been standing on her toe, and that
her foot has been squeezed out of all sign
OF beauty. This squeezing commences at
the time the girl is wears old and often when