The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-06-23
JAPAN's GARDEN OF GIRLS.
Fair Women on Plump, HobbIedy Legs WI
Defeat kissing

Fair Women on Plump, HobbIedy Legs Who
Detest kissing.
Japan Letter in London Illustrated News.
Among the distinct curiosities of this
lovely and welI-advertised land l Imme-
diately note the following. Here we have
o sea that Is destitute of freshness and
what at home We call ozone; flowers that
have s6ent; birds that have NO song;
women that are actually pleased with their
uniform unloveliness; men who laugh and
chuckle as they display their shaved heads
or scru bling brush hair; babies of infinite
ugiiness. whose cradle is sack on tho
back OF their stunted mothers; married
women with teeth black ink. and cats
without q vestige of tail These facts
are too often suppressed by the imp ressi0n-
able traveller. who writes home and tells
his friends that earth 8 paradise, its garden
of girls and dream of fair women. lies be-
tween Yokohama and Hakodate. Who 10
this little toddllng bundle coming toward
me across the streetsf She cannot be more
than four feet high. Her face is as round
and as fat as dumping. Her little black
beads of eyes are 80 sunk into her head
that they are almost lost In their over
hanging frame of fat eyelid. Her figure
if iiRnre 1t could be called-wOuld at home
be pronounced squat" Her body looks to
me as square as q die, and her legs. as they
peep from her wadded "kimonO." are
bowed or handy. There is dab of vermil-
Ion on her ever grinnlng lips. The dear
little thing is one fat and eternal grin.
1t was done up by the barber q week
ago, and there it has remained intact ever
since. 1t ID piled up in Jet black-raven
black. If you will-ink black rolls of we'll
oiled tresses, pile upon pile, roll upon roll.
Into these greasy bandeauX are stuck
sprays of artificial flowers. skelns OF silk,
pins and combs of every imaginable
device and color; and TINS smart. dust
catching, oily head-gear will rest content
eddy wooden pillow on the mat for the
next ten days. But then her tiny, toItering
feet! fear that Sir John Sucking would
not 60 into raptures over these japanese
mice that 60 In and out beneath the NIppon
pettIcOat. They are white. it is true. but
the stocking IL a coarse garter with a 'di-
vided toe"-that is to say. the only covered
toe visible is the great one. which is used
IA q lever for clasplDg the clog or slipper.
The sandal of the clog is. In fact, slnng
to the useful great toe, between It and
the rest of Its neglected companions
all tucked MP in the undivided gsiter. She
has no diRnited or stately walking. but q
cross between q waddle and O tOddle The
slippers without heels shuttle and smack
across the polished floors and snowy mats,
and the clogs-ohi dear me. how they squeak
and set your teeth on edge in the street or
at the railway etationi This. my good
friends. Is the mustn't" of Japan, over
whom sane men lose their heads and for
whom they virtually turn their backs on
the lOVellest and most graceful women in
Europe. BY the side of the .'musumi"-all
of them chips of the same block-shntfies
her mother. She Is still fairly pretty
much prettier than her daughter, so is
seems to me-for age III Japan reduces
the fatty plumpness Of the moon
faced dsriings" end makes their faces
oval and Interesting. But being married.
fate, or her liege lord. has decreed that the
poor woman should stain her beautiful
white teeth o bideous black. They are uot
stained or painted. they are positively
lacquered. Why a married man who wants
TO keep his wife at homo should black her
"A. II.
are fai tb less men occasionally black their
eyes but IL Is a strange act of uDselfsbDess
TO hoard up for yourself lifetime OF ebony
kisses In order to preserve them for home
consumption. That cannot. however, be
the reason. for japanese woman hates
kissing and would be shocked at the men,
ton of IL. Most women In the Last re-
yard it as O disgusting practice.