The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-06
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reformers all the work OF the latter would
in the long run be of no avail. She and all
the ladies of her family had received very
full education in literature and the arts 1t
was the kind of education that the prin-
ceSSeS of the renaissance time received I'M
der the generic name OF higher learning.
Queen Elizabeth, Marguerite of Navarro,
Mary OF Scotland Isabelle of Valois and
the Duches of Savoy received Japanese Ia
dies under the Shoguns, painted beautifully
and wrote divinely lovely poems. But was
wives of American and British traders and
of diplomats, felt that education must be
more mind STRENGTHENING and practical She
had been only four years Empress when she
arranged TO send five Japanese girls to a
school in the United States that had been
recommended 10 her by the daughter Of
General Dix.
That young woman had gone to Japan
as the bride Of an American engaged in
trade, and at once won influence In the
highest society at Kioto and Toxic. The
Empress paid all the necessary expenses of
these little lasses In America and had them
provided with European wardrobes. The
day of their departure she received them,
kissed them fondly, gave each a likeness of
herself as a keepsake and explained TO them
that she hoped they would honor her by
their docility and patience in learning and
be on their return home instruments for the
emancipation of their loved land from the
oppression Of the foreigner. They would see
why the foreigner had become so strong
and in what his superiority lay, and would
thus be able hereafter to help in their share
the reform movement which the Emperor
had set on foot.
KNOWS ENGLISH AND FRENCH.
The springtime Empress understands Eng
lish and French, but does not speak them.
Her relations with the ladies at the corps
diplomatique are, therefore, merely formal.
She sees them mostly at receptions and gar
den parties. On these occasions she dresses
in the European manner, but in private
dresses in the national style. The palace
of Tokugawa, where she receives is new
and on the site of that of the Shoguns
All the staterooms are furnished sump-
tuously. like French palace. The other
apartments contain very little furniture
and no chairs or tables. Haru Ko inhabits
rooms contiguous TO those of the Mikado,
and the empress dowager stays in them
when she comes from Kioto, where she re-
sides, on visit to her son.
The ladies are lodged in a separate
building. They began TO serve as girls of
honor at the age of eleven. and thus were
able to learn the intricacies of an etiquette
that had been growing up for the last
$500 years.
Each has her own little household, includ-
ing cook, and the ladies' wing resembles
the Belgian beguinage Their wages cover
their expenses. A lady of the palace sell
dom quits it except to attend the Empress
in her visits to schools or hospitals.
The family of Haru Ko serve their coun-
try. Her Imperial Majesty's brother dis
charged a naval mission here, and is now
IN command or WarSh1p under Admiral
Togo. He is a plain, Woodworking sea-
man, but has keen, shrewd mind. When
the French ex-marine minister. Lockroy.
was pushing on naval preparations as If to
the world, Captain Ichijo OWNED beneath
his ardor the intention OF working to in
| fict a blow not at the British, but the Jap
anese navy, for the good Of Russia.
The captain was present in 1893 at the
wildly enthusiastic reception of the Rus
sian admiral, Avellane, and his officers, and
predicted the situation that has arisen
since because the Russians imagine the
French will go to any lengths to serve
them.
The Ichijo family are one Of the five great
feudal houses in Japan. They hold a posi-
ton similar to that Of the four families of
Lorraine, whose members alone had the
privilege of entering the courtyard of the
sovereign,s palace on horseback, and were
thence called the -four horses of Lorraine -
by the way, the head of this quartet of no.
Die families. EMILY CRAWFORD.