Evening star., 1900-02-17

ness happens in the family, can taunt her
with not knowing her grandfathers further
back than a thousand years. His ancestry,
according to Japanese history, begins with
Jimmu Tenno, who ruled Japan $50 B. c.,
or long before Rome became an empire.
The Imperial Bride.
But let me tell you something about this
young lady who is to be the future EN-
press of Japan. We should call her a girl
rather than lady if she We're in the
United States. She is only fifteen, and
last year she was trotting about on her
little japanese shoes to and from the En-
presses School. She was in the third grade
of the High School there when she was
told one day that the emperor had picked
her out to be the wife of the prince i'm
| perial, and that she must leave the pub
licity of her present method of education
and be taught for the next few months at
home How she received the news do
not know. / suppose, however. like any
good Japanese girl would do she smiled
and consented without a murmur. Her
parents celebrated her leaving the school
by giving a dinner of thanks to her teach
ers. The Princess Sada insisted that her
classmates should also be invited, and they
came to the number of twenty.
From one of the native Japanese papers
have had translated some interesting de-
tails of the school life and studies of Prin-
cess Sada. She entered the school in rhe
kindergarten classes and has been there
ever since. She has always been regular
In her attendance and has uniformly stood
high in her classes. She loved her school
and was general favorite with her fel-
lows. She usually walked to and from
school, except in very bad weather, and
engaged in all the plays. She has always
been robust and strong and her good health
is one of the most important considerations
as to her marriage. Just now she is most
carefully watched and urged not to do any-
thing that may endanger her health. Her
studies on this account have been Iessened
and her hours of exercise and rest have
been increased.
The princess is well advanced for her
age. When she left school her chief studies
were japanese and Chinese literature. uni
versal history, French. mathematics. men,
nanship and drawing. She has dropned
everything but her history geography and
French and is devoting more time to her
| music. She now has private tutors, who
come to her house to teach her The prin
cess is noted for her poetic ability. She
writes beautifully, and her cherry tree ef-
fusions are said to be especially fine. In
both music and poetry she will vie with the
| present empress, who is noted as one of
the most beautiful writers of Japanese no.
ems. Her imperial majesty displayed re-
markable poetic ability when she was as
young as the Princess Sada and her SON
nets are now celebrated in the Japanese
literature Of the age.
The Wedding Ceremony.
Baron Sannomiya tells me that it has not
been decided what the wedding ceremony
will be nor whether it will be after the
style of the old Japan or new form got
ten up by the advisers of the imperial
household and the emperor to suit the new
conditions. If it is according to the old
will dress for it in Japanese costume, the
princess wearing about thirteen silk gar.