The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-02-28
AMERICAN GIRLS.
Their Marriage to Japanese Not
Infrequent.
ARE TREATED WITH HIGH HONOR.
A New Orleans Girls Interesting Position.
They Live In Japanese Houses and
Japanese Style.

women with Japanese has been not in
frequent and as rule such unions
have resulted very happily. The
Japanese seem to be more compatible
with other races of the West than any
other Oriental people, and marriage
with them is looked upon with, to say
the least, more tolerance.
While the eyes of the American peo-
pie have been gazing with mingled feel
ings at the exodus Of girls who have
married into the nobility of Europe, a
few foreigners have accepted japanese
husbands, and we seldom hear about
them except in the social communica-
tions from which they were taken and
from the comparatively few Americans
who travel in Japan. But the inter-
marriage of japanese gentlemen with
foreign women is no longer social ex-
pertinent.
Outside the immediate court circle
the most prominent woman in the So
oial affairs of Japan is Viscountess
Aoki, the wife of the present Japanese
Minister IN Berlin, and formerly the
Minister of Foreign Affairs in the
Japanese Cabinet. Viscountess Aoki is
of German birth and is personal friend
of Emperor William. She is small
in stature, with fair hair, a slight and
extremely graceful figure, with very
quiet though pleasant manners, and an
entertainer of the rarest accomplish
ments.
While her husband was Minister of
Foreign Affairs the Aoki dinners and
balls were by far the most pleasant
features of the japanese season.
When Count Okuma was Minister of
Foreign Affairs Viscount Aoki was the
Vice Minister, and it fell to the Wis
countess going into new and official
residence to furnish it for the govern
ment This she succeeded so we'll in
doing, and her efforts were so greatly
admired, that when Okuma had a
dynamite bomb exploded under his
carriage, through which mishap he lost
a leg, and was forced to give up his
portfolio, and the office devolved upon
Aoki, Viscountess Aoki refused to give
up the Vice Minister'S house and 90
into the Ministers official residence,
but installed the bachelor Vice Minis.
ter there. She is, to make a danger.
GUS guess. nearly 40 years old. Hel
dresses all come from the best Paris
makers, and from the number of them
she wears it is we'll that her husband
has large personal estates to draw upon
They have only one child-little Hama
whose beauty it would be difficult tc
describe better than by saying it is OF
the typical Neapolitan class. If, as
young woman, she retains the beauty
and grace she possesses as a child, SHE
is destined to be one of the most beau
tiful women in the world.
Aoki's lieutenant in political actor
is Mr.. Akabane, who has distinguished
hismelf as a young diplomat of marked
ability, and who has also distinguished
his American diplomatic career by
marrying Miss Barry, of Baltimore
When Mr.. Mutzu. who several years
ago was the Japanese Minister to tn,
United States, departed from Washing
ton Mr.. Akabane was left as Charg,
d'Affaires. He met Miss Barry there
and, after years courtship, married
her. They went to Toxic on theil
wedding trip, and in few months h,
was made private secretary to Minister
, Aoki. When Aoki went to Berlil
, Akabane returned to Washington
where Mrs. Akabane was prominen
figure and often noticed in the pres
accounts of the functions at the Japan
csc Legation. Afterward they fol
lowed the Aokis to Berlin, where Mr.
Akabane was Secretary of the Lega
ton. Mrs. Akabane is also Of shor
stature, and of the plump, American
type of pretty brunette, which remind
us sometimes of our French forefathers
In the inner court circle one of tn
ladies is Mrs. Sonnomiya, of Englis
birth. She is portly woman and de
cidedly matronly in her looks and de
meanor. She is consulted by ever
Japanese lady Of the nobility, from tn
Empress down, upon all questions @
dress etiquette and propriety. He
position as the wife of the master @
ceremonies for the Empress is one full
Of difficulties in social way, and ye
Mrs. Sannomiya rules over the court S
we'll and so amiably that both Japanes
and foreigners look up to her as thei
natural sponsor. Mr.. Sannomiya
besides being grand master of cere
monies for the Empr ess, is politica
economist and, it is said, has freer in
tercourse with the Mikado than is en-
joyed by any other japanese statesmen
, OF all the foreign ladies who have maj
ried into the aristocracy of Japan, Mis-
Jokichi Tekamine is perhaps the mos
| interesting. She was Miss Hitch
! a society girl Of the Crescent City, an
met her future husband during tn
| New Orleans Exposition several year
, ago. where he was Japanese commits
sioner. He has always been hig
official in the Department of Agricul
ture and Commerce and has bee
J decorated by the Mikado. He i
: called "the alchemist" by his Toki
friends, because of his lifelon
study Of chemistry, which has resulte
in the discovery of an improved metho
OF distilling and fermenting spirituou
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