The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-13
ABOUT THE JAPANESE WOMEN.
They Are Good and Charming ana
Have Been sadly MiEreDresented.

They Are Good and Charming and
Have Been sadly MisreDresented.
A. de Guerville. in the Illustrated Ameri-
Nothing in Japan appeals more charm
ingly to the stranger-man or woman
than the sweet and graceful maldens in
their beautiful and picturesque costumes
Of bright colored silks. The japanese
claim-and not without reason-that nine
tenths of what has been published about
the sweet daughters of Nippon is absolute
ly untrue, and was written by men who
know but veyr little of Japan, and nothing
at all of it's women.
i remember a long conversation / had
on the subject with one of the prettiest
and most charming ladies' OF Toxic, Count
ess lnouye, whose father-in-law is one of
the great statesmen of Japan The CONVEX
sation having turned upon the subject of
japanese women, she exclaimed:
ooh, you foreigners are really too anus
/ ing, when speaking and writing about us.
So much fun had reading Pierre Lott and
Edwin Arnold All! Ah!-it is more than
| droll."
"of what do you reproach them?"
| "Reproach them? Why? To be talking
Of what they know absolutely nothing.
| Just see Pierre Lott, for instance He
comes here, spends a few weeks en- tete-a-
! tete with dancing girl of the very lowest
class, whose language he cannot speak,
I
queerest thing on earth-and who, after
that, goes and writes books about Japa-
nese womenr The worst is that foreign
ers reading these books will come to the
conclusion that we are all like Nine.
4 Chrysantheme."
But Sir Edwin Arnold speaks in very
20 yes. but he does not know much
more. II only knows half dozen charm
| ing little ladies', and he IS too much of a
| poet to judge them as man. He loves
| them as he loves nature, and would not
possibly speak of them in every day prose.
He Grapes them in the wells of poesy, and
dreams he is in heaven surrounded by an
/ gels. II seems so foolish to u.s."
Writing the name of Pierre Lott reminds
me of a rather amusing experience l had
some four years ago. 1 was going for the
first time from Kobe to Nagasaki on one
of the fine steamers of the Nippon Yusen
| Kaisha. While steaming through the beau
| turesque islands, happened to think Of
! Nine. Chrysantheme, and wondered
whether she was still alive.
Il must try to see her" / thought, and
! interview her on Lott We all know what
| he thinks Of her-it would be interesting
to find out what she thinks Of him"
So as soon as I landed / went to see the
consul to whom l had letters of introduce
| tion and who kindly invited me TO lunch
with him. While we were drinking our cof-
fee l told him of my desire to look up
| Lofts heroine
The idea seemed to amuse him immense
LET us go to the club" he said; "the
/ French consul is likely to be there, and he
l can tell you all about her.
1t took some time for the French con-
sui to get over his laughing attack but
! at last he said:
1.-The truth. my dear sir, is that Nine.
| Chrysantheme does not exist-has never
existed. except in Lofts imagination"
What do you mean2' ! exclaimed.
simply that though there are In Japan
plenty of women of the Nine. Chrysan-
theme type. that special one does not ex-
/ ist-in short, Lott was here but a few
days. He never had Japanese house and
never went through that wedding cere-
mOny which he described.
"But"I remarked again, II have met
lots of people in America and in Europe
who told me that they had actually seen
At this every one laughed again. and the
consul answered:
mo wonder; to introduce globe trotters
TO genuine Nine. Chrysantheme has be-