Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-19
JAPANESE WOMEN.
Accordin. 10 This Account They Are
 Not Beautiful Creatures at All. [Correspondencs of the Augusta CGa.) Chroni-

[Correspondencs of the Augusta CGa.O Chronl-
 cle.l
 Among the numerous objections of moral and physical nature to the Japanese
 "Musme" is their peculiarly offensive odor They dress their coarse black hair but once, or, at the very most, twice
 week, caking 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
 annointing it with a peculiarly pungent
 oil of the castor oil species So careful
 are they not to disturb this arrangement of the hair during the entire week that | they use little paper padded blocks ot | wood which fit just in the nape of the neck and leave the head clear, as pillows at night. Toward the fourth and fifth | days both the pomade and the oil acquire | an exceedingly rancid perfume in addition | to their other qualities, and it requires a nose of altogether oriental obtuseness or | smell to remain unmoved thereby
 Then too, their dress is not as clean as it might be- True, they bathe good deal l-I can vouch for that as an eyewitness,
 since they mostly perform their ablutions
 corams spublico-but they are not psrticu-
 lar as to the condition of the water, nor as I
 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 bsfore them | These dresses made of such durable
 | fabrics that they seldom wear out, and in } asmuch as they are never laundered, they . may be said without exaggeration to har- bor the impurities of almost centuries. rFr1l 0FN0Trr [ the figure of Japanese woman As l oeneral rule the trunk Of her body is far = foo long in proportion to the length of her lower limbs, a radical fault per SC Then, r too, her shoulders are narrow and sloplng, 2 her bust pitiable, and the whole attitude l of her body doubled up and deficient in : grace There are no superb figures such r ss one sees among the lowest classes in In d dia, Egypt, Persia and central Asia, where
 the women acquire physical development a of the most perfect kind from the fact Of f their being trained from earliest girlhood o to walk with more or less heavy jars Of @ water balanced on their heads
 @ The hands of the Japanese women are f usually well cared for, soft, plump Ano Io t pretty. The arms, however, are osoiy }, Formed and unattractive. With regard 70 |, tba faca it ia never beautiful or even pret- @ tv while it is absolutely hideous when the j. woman happens to be married TOT on Y inc day of the wedding, before leaving her e fathers house to enter that of her husband, ). she is obliged by sumptuary law or d usage which has been in force for nine n hundred years, to shave oil her eyebrows le and to blacken her teeth. The latter IS ,t done by means of horrible sticky mix G. ture in which powdered gall nuts and iron ar filings form the principal ingredients. of The blacking has to be applied every day T. for if more than twenty-four hours is per a. mitted to elapse without its renewal, thu ir color begins to wear away and the teetl st assume a dullish gray hue streaked witt 1e black.