The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-09-24
Two JAPANESE MAIDS OF VIssIR.
How They Behaved mt College, and Their
Later Fortunes In Mix ado Land.

How They Behaved Mt College, and Their
Later Fortunes In Mikado Lind.
vassar students Of 10 and 80 doubtless re-
member the Japanese girls Stamatz and Sing
hi. who were sent over by the Government
along with half dozen more little maidsto be
educated in America. 1t was at the time
when Japanese people were beginning to be
eager to acquire everything that was good in
Western thought and Western methods OF life.
The boys were encouraged 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
several belonged to the nobility. 1t is
interesting to learn the result OF the
experiment from lady who recently
visited these girls in their Japanese homes
and who writes about her visit to the Pal Mall
Gazette. At Nassar. Stamatz was brilliant and
exclusive and very beautiful She took high
honors in English literature. wrote charming
essays. and spoke English. with slight ac-
cent Of course but her vocabulary and her
use OF 1t were fiawless. She was President OF
her class in her sophomore year. and was n
member OF the Shakespeare" a club always
confined to the girls who were first intellectu-
ally. Stamatz played wonderful game OF
choss and excelled ut whist.
Singh was never President OF anything.
but every one loveu her. She was invaluable
at the fortnightly candy pulls" splendid on
q sleigh ride. and she spent half Of her time in
the inhrmary coddling sick girls. She got
through her examinations with eminent re-
spectability, spoke very broken English. and
wrote it stifly but correctly. Singh was
plain. dummy. and near sighted. with wee fat
nose and In every feature broadly Japanese
,i Stamatz on her Isturp to Japan made a
man OF high position. great power and i'm
mense wealth His wife has become noted
emily as we'll as German and Italian. She re-
ceiSed an old-time friend who called upon her
sfes es and nd cake siF an
service; and talked as overwhelmingly as ever
about the books she read in America. but her
toned. When the college paper for which in
her student days she wrote such clever, arti;
she wasn't sure. She had not read 3
her to japan sh sa
do thought 1t best. She wore the costume OF
coed in the ' Simple S Greek fashion and her
bronze slippers were Of Partisan make,
Olyama. as she is now known. with japanese
Sentleman The Jap bent seven times re to the
the SSf said bow as otan and
as low as that shall fall down; But am ex;
tre%ey glad to meet y9 bnt she smiled and
him. Stamatz was born to the purple. and
she loved it. She is four times a mother and
four times q stepmother.
Singh lives in a funny little house. purely
Japanese. and Is The wife e,, OF Lieutenant in
changed bir. she seized her old friend by
ono hand. her friends husband by the other.
She had never seen the husband or heard OF
him. but she instinrtively knew who he must
be- and adopted him in her little mothe rly way.
She had forgotten most OF her imperfect Eng
lish. and ut first the two friends could barely
understand each other; But she overwhelmed
the visitor with questions about everything
and every body they had known in their school
days. She sent for her five little children and
they bobbed queer little courtesies with their
queer little bodies and ran away laughing.
The only suggestions OF Europe in the little
bit OF a home were three old books and iebox OF
cigars. which the hostess brought out for the
gentleman with her gleeinl laugh. But never
theless the Empress has founded q girls col
lege in Japan, and she tSinghi) is professor OF
the piano.