The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-17
AMERICAN BBhUTIES
Fair Daughters Of the Uni
ted States Who Have Mar
ried Distinguished
Japanese.
THE CZARINA'S DIAMONDS.
They are the Finest in Europe,
Outshining Those Of all
other Potentates.

The Empire of Great Japan abounds
with Lords and men of distinction.
Few are aware that Japan is known
to her W people as Great Japan, but
when the reorganization of the coun
try was brought about and the men
who had been Kuni and Daimyo and
Samusai, became Princes, Dukes, Mar
quises, Lords and Barons, they looked
over at Britain and concluded if that
was Great Britain this was Great ia
pan, and so it is called to-day Dali Nip
pom or Great Japan.
At no court in the world is the same
unbending formality observed and in
sisted upon as that which character
ICES the Toxic court. Only one per-
SON, up to date, has ever been able to
break through that formality, and it
is hardly worth while to say that per-
son was an American.
While the eyes of the American
people have been gazing with min
gled feelings at the exodus of girls
who have married into the nobility of
Europe, a few foreigners have accept
ed japanese husbands, and we seldom
hear about them except in the social
communities from which they were
taken and the comparatively few
Americans who travel in Japan. But
the intermarriage of japanese gentle
men with foreign women is no longer
a social experiment.
On+sida tI,a ,pnoaHiofo 0oI1pt aipalo
the most prominent woman in the So
cial affairs of Japan is V-iscountess
Aoki, the wife OF the present Japan
ese Minister in Berlin, and. only lately
the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the
japanese Cabinet-a position held at
present by Mr.. Mutsu. late Minister in
Washington, and one of Secretary
BIaine's warmest diplomatic friends.
Viscounuess Aoki is a lady of Ger
man birth and a personal friend of
the present Emperor William. She is
small in stature, with fair hair, a
slight and extremely graceful figure,
with very quiet though pleasing man.
ners, and ali entertainer of the rarest
accomplishment.
While her husband was Minister of
Foreign Affairs the Aoki dinners and
NttllS mS1O O1 AAoL LIZ
features of the Japanese season. When
Count Okuma, whose star is now on
the wane. was Minister of Foreign
Affairs, yiscount Aoki was the Vice
Minister, and it fell to the Viscount-
ess. going into a new official residence
to furnish it for the government. This
she succeeded sowell in doing and her
efforts were SO greatly admired that
49,, r@on, Ol-rrp,o ho6 a hNrnnIpjfo
bomb exploded under his carriage,
through which mishap he lost a leg
and was forced to give up his port
folio. the Office devolved upon
Aoki. Viscountess Aoki refused to
give up the Vice Minister'S house and
go into the Minister'S official residence,
but installed the bachelor Vice Minis
ter there,
She is, to make q dangerous guess,
about ~thirty-five veal old. Her
dresses all come from the best Paris
makers and from the numbers OF them
she wears it is we'll that her husband
has large personal estates to draw
upon.
They have only one child-little
Hana-whose beauty would be diff
.ult to describe better than by saying
it is of the typical Neapolitan class.
TT as a young worna she retains the
beauty and grace she possesses as a
child, she is destined to be one of the
most beautiful women in the world.
Aoki's lieutenant in political action
is Mr.. Akabane, who has distinguished
himself as a young diplomat of
marked ability, and who also dis
tinguished his American diplomatic
career by marrying Miss Barry of
Baltimore.
When Mr.. Mutsu departed from.
Washington, Akabane was left as
Charge d'Afaires. He met Miss
Barry there, and after d years court
ship married her. They went to Toxic
on their wedding trip. and in a few
to Minister Aoki.
When Aoki went to Berlin, Aka
bane returned to Washington, where
last winter Mrs. Akabane was a prom
inent figure and often noticed in the
press accounts of the functions at the
japanese legation. A few months ago
they followed the Aokis to Berlin,
where Mr.. Akabane is Secretary of
Legation at present.
Mrs. Akabane is also of short
stature and of tile plump, American
type of pretty brunettes which re-
mind us sometimes of Jul French
forefathers.
In the inner court circles one of the
court ladies is Mrs. S~annomiya, of
English birth. Sneis a portly woman
and decidedly matronly in her looks
and demeanor.
She is consulted by every Japanese
lady of the nobility, frcm the Empress
down, upon all questions Of dress, ETH
quette and propriety. Her position
asthe wife of the Master OF Ceremonies
for the Empress is one fnll of diff
culties in a social way, and yet Mrs.