The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1916-03-10
CLOTHES IN CHINA
Where Women Wear Trousers
and Men Are Clad In Skirts.
A CURIOUS FASHION IN HAIR.
The Feminine Head is Decorated With
Stiff Cushion That Demands Con-
slant Ventilation to Be Bearable.
Vogue of the Ear Tickler.

a Stiff Cushion That Demands Con-
slant Ventilation to Be Bearable.
Vogue of the Ear Tickler.
Even though l came to China know
ing that they did things backward,
there are some customs here that
just can't get used to. One is seeing
women wearing trousers. There are
more women wearing trousers in Chi
ma than there are people in the United
Statesmen, women and children.
suppose there is no reason why things
shouldn't be thus, but it will always
seem to me that the pants are on the
wrong side of the house
The women look like clothespins
Their bodies are the same size all the
way down, and their feet are so tiny
that they go bobbing along for all the
world like jointed clothespins. The
women shaye their foreheads, with
the timber line almost at the top OF
their heads, so that the little patch of
face below looks as if it were trem-
bling under threat of an impending
snowsiide
Their hair is pulled and keyed back
as though for musical purposes. At
the back of the head a Chinese wo-
man wears q cushion of false hair. so
dressed as TO show her rank, so that q
person skilled in the language Of the
hair can read her history, can tell her
nj fYrt1,
tions. A person up on hair can tell at
a glance whether or not she is mar
ried; If so, how many children she has,
and If widow, if she is willing to
open correspondence with a desirable
party of about orty-fve-object, mat
rimony
In this cushion a Chinese woman
carries her head scratcher. Her hair
dressing is a preparation made of slip
perry elm. The person needing it can
run out to the corner and wait until
the carpenter takes plane and shaves
off few curls. This the Chinese lady
sleeps into thick, gummy smear,
stiffen her hair.
This layer makes the top of her head
hot, SO that every odd moment when
she hasn't anything else to do she gets
down under the mess and lets in some
air with q darning needle Her favor
ite time for doing this is at the theater.
When the performance begins to drag
she gets out her darning needle and
improves the shining hour by making a
rift in the roof as she looks around
over the audience, lightly gossiping
about who are there. what they are
wearing and how awful they look
Men in China wear skirts. Their
skirts are In a garment that reaches
from their shoulders to their shins and
looks like nightgown worn by Cape
Cod deacon. 1t has a tasty slit up each
side, so that on muddy crossings the
twinkle Of masculine ankles may be
seen. When they want to catch a car
they have TO gather up their skirts In
the good old fashioned feminine way.
Under their skirts they wear pair
of drawers fastened at the ankles with
q 5andage, with the ends tucked in.
When Chinaman has an important
letter or note to carry he unties the leg
of his drawers, stuffs it in and puts the
bandage back. The bandage works
loose, so that when he reaches his des-
tination the note is usually gone.
The only pockets a Chinaman has are
in his shirt waist, which he wears un-
der his skirt, so that when he wants to
get dime he has to unbutton one side
and slip in a hand. Even though a
Chinaman wears skirts he has not yet
learned about the First National bank.
The Chinese are a great nation to
think of the handy little things-things
that no other people in the world could
possibly think Of You can run out on
to the street almost any time and buy
an ear ticker Men make a living
going around selling them. An ear
ticker is a little puff Of cotton on the
end of stick and is meant to combine
both business and pleasure the bust
ness Of cleaning the ear and the pleas
ure Of the tickling sensation.
His is not an easy life, for the ped
dler has to be constantly on the watch
against tricky people who come up,
sample his ticklers, give their ears a
couple Of good tingles, tell the man
that they don't like his brand Of tick
Ter and go on their way.
The peGdler's ingenuity has devel-
oDed way of polishing up the ttclxlr