The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-27

pedns, Holland being considered a
colony of Java, Portugal of Macao, and
| their representatives rather Asiaticky
in appearance.
Japanese Women's Dress
Nor do the Alice through the-look-
ing glass characteristics of the Jap
anese woman consist only in her rela-
lions with her husband. Take her dress
| for example. A kimono is more adapt-
ed to the European lady's figure if it
is worn backside foremost and the
Partisan costume suits the japanese
| figure better backside foremost. If the
| dress comes from Germany it does not
| signify so much, because the Germans
are broad minded in their notions of
fit.
A well dressed japanese woman is
tied in at the knees so that she NAV
not seem to walk too freely. Japanese
women do not wear gloves, which is a
great saving to their families, seeing
that every glove in Japan which is not
sealed up in pickle bottle of a bis
cut tin, gets the spotty mold in the
first few hours of the rainy season
When her hands are cold she mills
them up into her sleeves, which are
long and hanging, as they were when
King Arthur's court began, and che
had three ancient serving-men,. and all
OF them were thieves" Doubtless those
| ancient serving men, like the modern
japanese woman, had their sleeves half
hemmed up for pockets.
The Japanese woman carries in her
sleeve a pocket handkerchief, which Is
generally made of paper; a gaudy silk
case containing her op-sticks-you
take your feeding tools with you to a
japanese meal instead of finding them
on the table-and another gaudy silk
case, which contains a looking glass
which isn't made of glass, but silver
colored bronze; her pocket comb, which
is OF no use, but a piece of foreign
sWagger; and her pot of lip-salve.
| which is not intended to soften the
lips, since kissing is not a japanese
custom, but to color them to an i'm
probable crimson. She may keep her
fan and her smoking materials in her
| sleeve, but she more often has them
suspended from buttons.
The Japanese do not use buttons for
! buttoning; they stick them through
their sashes and let them hang down
by silver chains or silken cords. tor the
fans, their smoking kit, their medicine
chests, and perhaps their pen and ink.
All this sounds formidable, not to say
unlikely, but there is still method in
the Japanese madness.
The medicine chest Gnro) consists of
| little trays fitting into each other and
cover, and would go into a cigar
case; their ink is in the dry Indian
form; and their pen is a paint brush
stuck in the end of a bamboo shoot.
The Jap Woman's JeweIry.
They carry their tobacco in a purse,
and smoke it in little brass pipe
hardly big enough to hold a cigarette,
1t only holds about three whiffs, which
would be inconvenient in a land where
the natives do not use matches. though
they forge foreign brands, if it were
not for the fact that there is hardly a.
room In Japan which has not a piece
Of charcoal smouldering in it on a to-
| baccO stove (fohoooo ,,oonoN - a..
stove (hibachD, or a cooking stove.
which looks like a tool box with its
lid replaced by a scullery sink full of
gray ash. The pen and the pipe have
each their case made like the card
board cases in which razors are sold.
but of elegant workmanship and often
Of costly materials.
1t is only in cases and buttons that
q Japanese woman can indulge her
| taste for jewelry. The Japanese have
no such thing as jewelry in our sense
OF the word any more than they have
oaths or bad language. Gold Is very
little used, and even silver is more used
forInlaying other metals than for maxi
Ing things. The Japanese silver crumb
trays which we see over here are for
eign ideas constructed on foreign
models. The Japs have no crumbs, not
having any bread. The-Japanese wom-
ans idea of jewelry is to have her to-
pacco purse or her pipe case of ex-
quisite materials and workmanship.
When you have seen Japanese but
I ton (netsuke) you cease to wonder at