The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1893-10-19

doubtless remember the Japanese
girls Stamatz and Singh, who wers
sent over by the government along
with half dozen more little maids
to be- educated in America 1t was
at the time when japanese people
were beginning to be eager to &C.
quire everything that was good in
western thought and western meth.
DDS of life. The boys were encour
aged to visit Europe and America
and seek degrees in the schools.
The girls, to the number of eight or
ten, were sent over at the expense
of the government. All of these
girls were of gentle birth, and sew
eral belonged to the nobility. 1t is
interesting to learn tho result of the
experiment from a lady who recent
ly visited these girls in their Japa-
nese homes and who writes about her
visit to the Pail Mall Gazette. At
Vassar Stamatz was brilliant and ex-
elusive and very beautiful. She took
high honors in English literature,
wrote charming essays and spoke
English with a slight accent of
course, but her vocabulary and her
use of it were fawless. She was
president of her class in her sophie
more year and was member of the
shakespeare" club always con-
fined to the girls who were first in
tellectually Stamatz played won
derful game of chess and excelled at
whist.
Singh was never president Of any
thing, but every one loved her. She
was invaluable at the fortnightly
candy pulls" splendid on a sleigh
ride, and she spent half of her time
in the infrmary coddling sick girls.
She got through her examinations
with eminent responsibility, spoke
very broken English and wrote it
stif1y but correctly. Singh was
plain, dumpy and nearsighted, with
a wee flat nose and in every feature
broadly japanese.
Stamatz on her return to Japan
made brilliant marriage. Her hus-
band was an old man Of high posi-
ton, great power and immense
wealth. His wife has become a
noted hostess and speaks French and
English fuently as well as German
and Italian. She received an old
time friend who called upon her at
her home with all her old time gra-
ciousness, served tea and cake from
an English service and talked as en-
tertainingly as ever about tie books
she read in America, but her face
grew listless when Vassar was men
toned. When the college paper for
which in her student days she wrote
such clever articles was spoken of,
she said she believed they sometimes
sent her copy, but she wasn't sure.
She had not read a printed page Of
French or, English since her return
to Japan. Evidently she had spent
the 10 years in exile because the mi
kado thought it best. She wore the
costume of Japanese women, save
that her hair was coiled in the sim
pie Greek fashion, and her bronze
slippers were of Partisan make. A
noted European called upon the
Countess Olyama, as she is now
known, with Japanese gentleman.
The Jap bent seven times to the floor
when Stamatz entered. Countess.
the English1nan said, If I bow as
often and as low as that, I shall fall
down. But I am extremely glad to
meet you." She smiled and made
his call delightful, but she never for
gave him. Stamatz was born to the
purple, and she loved it. She is four
times a mother and four times a
Singh lives in a funny little house,
purely Japanese, and is the wife of
a lieutenant in the navy. The jolly
little woman has not changed a bit.
She seized her old friend by one
hand, her friends husband by the
other. She had never seen the hus-
band or heard Of him, but she in
knew who he must be
and adopted him in her little mother
ly way. She had forgotten most Of
her imperfect English, and at first
the two friends could barely under
stand each other. But she over
whelmed the visitor with questions
about everything and everybody
they had known in their school days.
She sent for her five little children,
and they bobbed queer little cour-
tesies with their queer little bodies
and ran away laughing. The only
of Europe in the little
bit of home were three old books
md a box of cigars, which the host
sss brought out for the gentleman
with her gleeful laugh But never.
;heless the empress has founded a
girls college in Japan, and she
SinghD is professor of the piano.
Met His Match.
The Russian marshal, SuvarOff,