Morning journal and courier., 1891-04-27
JAPANESE WOMEN.
According 10 this Account They are
 Not Pretty at All. TErnm n Ey-ninlomaf In Chroui

According 10 this Account They are
 Not Pretty at All.
 From an Ex-Diplomat in Augusta CGa) Chroni
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 Among the numerous objections of a moral and physical nature to the Japanese 'Musme"is their peculiarly offensive odcr- They dress their coarse black hair but once, or, at the very most, twice a week, csking it with some kind of evil smelling fat or pomade for the purpose of giving the coiffure the required amount of stiffness and consistency, and likewise amounting it with peculiarly pungent oil of the castor oil species. So careful are they not to disturb this arrangement of the hair dur ing the entire week that they use little pa per padded blocks of wood, which fit just in the nape of the neck and leave the head clear, ss pillows at night Towards the fourth and fifth days both the pomade and the oil acquire an exceedingly rancid per fume, in addition to their other qualities, and it requires a nose of altogether Orien- tai obtuseness of smell to remain un- moved thereby.
 Then, too, their dress is not as clean as | it might be. True, they bathe a great deal T can vouch for that as an eye witness, since they mostly perform their ablutions corsm publico-but they are not particu- | lar as to the condition of the water, nor as | to the number of men and women who have been parboiled therein before them, and they invariably put on the same old picturesque but dirty dresses which their | female ancestors of the third and even | fourth generation have worn before them These dresses are made of such durable I AL. 4l sl oraA sr. asmuch as they are never laundered, they may be said without exaggerstion to har- bor the impurities of almost centuries. Women in civilized countries are always compared by the poets to lovely flowers, such as the violet or the rose, whose dainty beauty and delicate perfume they are as serted to possess. How is it possible, then, to believe that a man, accustomed to the adoration of woman, whose entire be- ing suggests exquisite flowers, can form any serious or lasting attachment for a | yellow skinned girl who is redolent, nor of the rose-bush, but rather of the castor-oil plantl
 Nor is it possible to agree with Sir Ed win Arnold when he describes the Japa- nese woman as graceful. Her walk, or rather waddle, is so ridiculously awkward and ungainly that it would provoke laugh ter were it not for pathetic, imploring, ill treated, dumb animal sort of look sp- parent in the eyes. She shuffies along with her toes turned, not outward, but in ward, and with her "kimono" wound so tightly around her legs that she progresses exactly as if her knees were bound closely together by cord. Her feet are very broad, very short and stumpy, and with ont even any suspicion of an instep. h. deed, a glimpse of them is sufficient to dampen any enthusiasm about the almond I eyed houris to whom they belong.
 Nor is there anything beautiful about the figure of & Japanese woman. As a general rule the trunk of her body is far l too long in proportion to the length of her lower limbs, radical fault per Sc. Then, too, her shoulders are narrow and sloping, her bust pitiable, and the whole attitude of her body doubled up and deficient in grace. There are no superb figures such as one sees amo-g the lowest classes in In, dia, Egypt, Persia and central Asia, where the women acquire physical development of the most perfect kind from the fact oi , their being trained from earliest girlhoot : to walk with more or less heavy jars o l water balanced on their heads,
 The hands of the Jspsnese women ar