The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1901-1903, 1902-09-14


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
buttonng; they stick them through
their sashes and let them hang down
by silver chains or silken cords, to the
othe" end OF which they attach their
fans, thelr smoking kit. their medicine
chests, ana 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
Il cover, and would so into cigar
ease; he ink is in the dry Indian form;
and their pen is Il paint brush stuck
in the end OF Il bamboo shoot.
They carry their tobacco in purse.
and smoke it in a little brass pipe
hardly big enough TO hold cigarette.
1t only holds about three whiffs, which
would be inconvenient In 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 piece
Of charcoal smouldering in it on a
tobacco stove tobacco monO), n finger
stove (hibachD, or cooking stove,
which looks like a tool box with its lid
replaced by Scullery sink full of gray
ash. The pen and the pipe have each
Il ease made like the cardboard cases
in which ra2ors are sold, but of elegant
workmanship and often of costly ma.
terials
1t is only in cases and buttons that a
Japanese woman can indulge her taste
for jcwelIy. The japanese have nc
such thing as jcwclry in our sense of.
the word any more than they have
oaths or bad language.
have said that the lower Il Japanese
woman is in class the more considera-
ton she receives; it is true, also, that
the lower her class, the prettier she is.
A Japanese grisette-the mousmee of
literature-is capable of being as pretty
as any grisette ever painted by Greuze
The type Greuze painted for his Girl
ut the Fountain" is thoroughly char
acteristlc type of the japanese nous
NEE. Her eyes are mostly black, but
unless she has a spark of good breed
ing they need not be almond shaped
and differ little from those of Euro
peans. The lower class Japanese have
Il racial element in them which has
never been satisfactorily accounted
for.
1t is the custom to say that the
Japanese are half Malay, half Mon
goiian people, the Monaghan type
being more prominent in the aristoc-
racy and the Malay In the people. But
these two races do not, in my mind.
account for this type.
One could readily believe that the
soft beauty Of the Japanese peasant
girl is accounted for by an infusion
of the blood of the gentle brown races
of the South Pacific Islands, with
whose nature she has SO much in COM
mon. :.
1t is lucky for her that she Is pretty,
and gentle and good, for Japan is o.
mans country, where women are re.
garded as mere conveniences. The
japanese talk OF the three obediences
for woman. She has to obey her ia
Their till she is married, her husband
while she is married, and her sons if
she Is left widow with children.
And even that is not the worst Of it.
for her wifely obedience extends to her
husbands parents and any elder
brothers he may have A Japanese
woman is often married because her
mother-lR-laW wants some one to wait
on her; in fact, she has no particular
prospects in life until she becomes a
mother-in-iaw herself-of n sons wife.
that is to say-not of a daughters
husband
japanese mothcrs-in-law are proverb-
tally harsh to their daughters in law:
in fact, the only capacity in which q
woman has a decent chance of mis-
behaving herself in Japan is that of
ENTHUSIASTICALLY Douglas Sladen, in the
New York Sun.