Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-12-01

and she frowns on the CID custom Of teoth-
blackening. and she is at the head Of all
things which are proposed to better the
condition of japanese women. She has
hospitals and schools. and she is one Of
the most charitable Of monarchs. The
Noble Girls School, founded by her at
tokyo, Is like one of our best female col
leges, and 1t Is devoted to the education Of
the young peeresses Of the empire. Her
majesty often visits 1t, and she has the
girls call upon her at the palace. She is
not fond of society and she is almost as
busy as the emperor. She has her own
secretaries, and her time Is taken up with
reading, study, receptions and charitable
work. She likes to ride horseback, and
she often takes ride through the palace
grounds. She Is short rather than tall
and is slender and petite She has not the
very best OF health, and was i'll during a
great part of the summer
Born to Blush Unseen.
There are a number Of ladies connected
with the palaces in Tokyo who, like the
flowers in Gray's Elegy, are born to blush
unseen,' though they do not waste their
sweetness on the desert air." ] refer to the
secondary wives OF the emperor You hear
nothing about these in Tokyo, and they are
Kept as much as possible in the back
ground. But from time immemoriaI the
emperor has been allotted a certain number
or secondary wives or concubines and there
are, l am told. twelve of these in the palace
grounds. They have establishments Of
their own and are the daughters of mobiles
Inc crown prince Is the son of one of them
his mothers name being Madam Yanagt-
wara.
Japnn's Next Emperor.
The crown prince was sixteen years old
last September. He is a very bright boy
dark-faced and Acknowledged, of the most
pronounced Japanese type. He is as
straight as an arrow, and is fond of mill
tary pursuits. and Is an officer, think in
the army. He has been educated In the
Mobiles School, and he Is learning English
and French. He has an establishment of
his own inside the palace grounds, with his
own servants, guards and attendants He
occasionally comes over and stays with his
father eating dinner with him and some
times sleeping in his fathers quarters He
does not look very much like his father
mis- face being rOunder and shorter. The
emperor Is very dark. and his features are
heavy and swarthy. He Is taller than the
average japanese. and he has the fat nose
the wide nostrils and the rather thick lips
which you see all over JAPAN.
The Court Mt Hiroshima.
The removal Of the court to Hiroshima is
causing a great change in this. the biggest
city of western Japan. Osaka, Kioto and
Kobe lie nearly a hundred miles to the
eastward and Hiroshima Is the Dig town
between these cities and Nagasaki, which
Is on the extreme west coast. Hiroshima
is the naval capital of Japan. and is one of
the most beautifully located towns in the
world. 1t lies on the sea at the foot Of the
mountains, and the waters about II are
filled with rocky islands. 1t is cut up by
canals and its view Is beautiful 1t has
always been e. great manufacturing plac g.
but 1 hear that it has had a great boom
since the emperor moved into 1t. Wages
have doubled, and modern methods have
come In. BARRIERS now charge cents in
stead of cents for a shave and the
Japanese member of parliament who wants
his hair cut in foreign style has to pay
II cents for 1t instead of the cents whc h
Is the regular price. Provisions of all
Kinds have gone up. and the city Is filled
with concert troupes. geishas and the float
ing population which always hangs around
a pleasure-loving center. Tokyo, the jap
anese capital, has been materially injured
by the change, and the theat tiers are only
half full.