The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-03-24


No, opera, library.
AFT gallery or round of visits upon which
she can consume the precious moments
elae makes 1p for II ~ dkfscatsnG all her
leisure % tie use Of the brush ana comb
There are no professional hairdTessers
IN the far East and no ladies' parl0ts
such as We have la America AMI ~ E.u-
rope Neither do the styles change from
year to year and so give free rein To
feminine fancy. The lady of Canton in
this year 1896 dresses her hair AZ she did
distant ancestors " no first looked In sur
prise upon the white skinned Marco Polo.
The only variety allowed her Is within
narrow Huits Where the hair h worn
81 q coil she must always make a coll.
but she has the liberty OF putting u up
OF top OF the head or at the nape OF The
neck.
TO make np for this. however. every
province and nearly every great city In
China has it's own style OF wearing the
hair. The girl OF Sze~Chuen wears q
bang Madonna curis for the ear 10 the
shoulder and sort Of medieval German
fllet on the top OF the head. while the
Canton woman usually carries her ebony
locks straight back from the face and
gathers them in ar ornate coil over the
bump OF phiioprogenitiveness
Chinese women although they seldom
travel make careful study Of these de
tails and can tell at sight not only where
another Chinese woman comes from. but
also II her hair has been dressed by
maid OF her own or some other province.
An deal head according to the Chinese
standard must have large crop Of hair.
f,ne. soft. silky ard blue black ia color.
j. should be straight and fall down8ards
from the roots A. matter OF fact this
Ideal, though described IN poems and love
stories ad iniiuitum. IL seldom II ever
encountered.
In Northern China the color varies to
hrownish black. reddish black. brown,
ard even red Nearly all Chinese babies
have blonde complexiOns and very often
hrownish hair at birth. In tie middle Of
China the hair il coarse. protest ding and
rather sparse In texture. In southern
Ghiua it shows traces 81 admiN1ure of
Malay and other alien blood. and a times
has a slight tendency toward kinkluess.
while In the mountains Of sze-Chuen
there are stu tribes which have brown
and wayy hair.
When Mrs. An fio has had her morning
bath. she puts on her uf.dercoat. under
Jantalettss. stockings and slippers and
then folds around her shoulders "a great
hair cloth. which she securely fastens az
the neck She then takes her hair down
and washes II with luke warm water IL
Hhe Hyes anywhere near the coast or this
great river ports. size produces A small
white piece OF CASTLE soap or a cake Of
scented toilet soap II she lives where
these luauries are not ohtainahie. she
uses Chinese SOAP. which - made upon
the same principles an our own. bat In In
ferior Ia quality. Sometimes she uses
homeopathic amount Of tlncal or crude
borax Of wood iye or Of soda, No matter
what detergent she employs she has a
curious substance of sapouaceous char
asier for which We have no name IN En-
gliSh.
This f. a mixture of some soapy tnEre-
dent, perfumsry. flower petals. medicine
and vegetable matter compressed 10 the
consistency Of plum cake.
II ranges from yellow TO dark brown In
color and looks a good deal like the oil