The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-13
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come the most important business OF our
guides According to the size of your lug
gage, for So. $40, $g5 or $50 your guide VIII
Introduce you to her. Useless 10 add
that any geisha girl answers the pur-
one can easily see from this and from
the few remarks made by Countess In
ouye that most books and articles on the
japanese women are not be relied upon.
Every writer on the subject seems 10 have
a different opinion-so different IN fact,
that one would be inclined TO think that
there are several Japans in this world.
There is but one, but 1t contains seVerai
classes of women whose conditions are
very different.
In foreign clothes. Certainly they are not
as graceful as In their own costumes, Tor
they do not know how to wear the occi-
dental dresses. The wearing or unra-
miliar garments cannot be learned IN a
day Let the American girls try on the
Japanese dresses without the help Of a
competent cOstumer and see what they
Will look lke-to japanese eyes.
And now a few words about the morals
of Japanese women. II Is generally be-
Ueved in Europe and In America that the
morals over there are very low 1t is un-
doubtedly due TO the ridiculous and most
unreliable stories which globe trotters Ge-
light In telling their friends, Ihere Is not
I'm the world a more moral people than
The globe-trotters know absolutely
nothing of the Japanese women OF the
middle or upper classes, and during the
few weeks they spend In Japan they only
meet the geisha girls. whose business II
is to sing and dance and sell their smiles.
But such a class Of women Is 70 pc round
in every country, and they are in Paris,
London, New York or san Francisco.
There can be no comparison. These Wo-
men in Japan do not live the life Of dirt
and misery the disgustingly vicious lie
Of the unfortunate women OF the Quar-
tier de Batignolies or OF Dupont street.
They are well dressed. well led, wen
taken care Of, well treated. They are
comparatively well educated, ana are all
good musicians. They could not become
geisha girl unless they Know now dnn 20
They all have excellent manners.
Most of them are sold by their parents,
who Of course belong 70 the very lowest
class az people, TO individuals who make
il n business to give them the needed ed
ucation and later hire them out by the
hour, the evening, the day me, week lex 90, or
and boards them. and gives them the
money necessary to buy their pretty
clothes. Strange to say, girls OF this
eno,5gh fancy to them to buy
them back and marry them nave uni
formly made the best of wives Many
he eeishas. as for instafiee, the wife Of
the late japanese minister 10 VIENNA
Mime. WatanaDe,
TO have past does not prevent rro a
woman from geI,ihk nv Vii t,,en
Inc women of the low class, whose morals
are loose before they marry. income nom
est wives as soon as they belong TO nus
Jananese women do not care much for
Iove-passfonate loVe-as IL exists IN our
country. In fact, u seems uhknoWn 70
tbem and L have come to the conclusion
that its on account of all Of them having
uniformly dark skin and hare tant de la
meme peau," as the trench say. II Is a
well known fact that man with light
hair will most naturally fail In love with
a brunette but seldom with blonde, and
vice versa. ,
In their clubs and other places by men
who have left great deal or money in
Japan, / can affirm that the women Of that
country thoroughly dislike foreigners, and
have never heard yet of one of them be-
ing in love with one Of US.
Strange as 1t may appear, kiss Is an
unknown thing In Japan-not unknown to
the gay maidens of Yokohama, Kobe OF
Nagasaki, who have so much to do for
the amusement Of foreigners, but I'M
known 10 the japanese IN general A lover
never kisses his sweetheart mother new
er kisses her child. He made a great mis-
take, the man who wrote that "a kiss is
natures Volapuk the universal language
of love" You can kiss any japanese girl.
She will not object, for she cannot pos
sibly understand what you mean. She viii
only think. what queer people these for
5apanese women have three recreations,
smoking. singing and dancing. They
smoke most gracefully, as they do every
thing. This habit was Introduced into ia
pan by the Spaniards some $50 years ago.
/ Japanese girls, however do not smoke
cigarettes like the bellies of Andalusia, but
pipes. the daintiest little pipes. beautiful
| ~ ornamented and holding just enough to-
bacco for one or two puffs.
And now what of that reputation for
beauty which the Japanese women are en-
joying-again, thanks to the stories of
globe trotters? The fact is that there are
fewer pretty girls there than in America,
and have not seen one that was beauti-
full The most one can say Of Japanese
beauty IS: How pretty she Isl or How
cuter' One could never think Of saying:
what a beautiful womanF'
And yet the Japanese girl charms every
one She does not charm by her so-called
beauty, but by her originality, her grace