Show O O O OPO O O O o O o o O O O O opo o o O o o ono o O O O O O O OiO O O OO OO O OO O O o O O 00 00 t LITTLE SI II 00 II 00 THE SIP 00 00 00 P it K oo 00 OF Ii 00 tta WOMEN OMEN 00 ii OF JAPAN Co 8 fc J Joo 00 oo 00 O O O O OvO O O O O O O O O O OO O O O O Q O O co coo oC O O o o c o co o o O O O O O O O O O O O O Is snore moro difference be between bel between tween l the tho women lomell of ot Japan T and China Chino than between tin tho thomen men of oc these theRe two countries and nud this difference expressed exactly the relative progress attained by b the tho two nations on the up Upgrade grade crado of ot modern civilization In many situations I hue have seen the little brown women ornell anti gIrls of ot Japan laud land only on In the shores or of theIr own ori halt half clad lifting with their tiny hands ft at al baskets of oC coal to be stored In III u it 1 II hold kept up UI to their heir work by u a 1 taskmaster even Cen fewer feiver clothes again In faraway Manila I have SeMI se n nI waitresses In their cool blue I and while big JIlt lowered kimonos draw drawIng 11 big Ing rods of oC Americans liS to thu the place by byth b bythe th the if r quaint prettiness once more I have seen them thein this lila time In Paris driving on the he Ibis Hols earIng costly cost I Ivory white French gowns and violet i hut hints of at the latest artistic creation n II little Chinese page curled up In his hili yel yet yellow yellow low robes at sit their feet feel once more at nt trading many moo eyes eY s I have seen them too In fashionable fa western high life lite receiving callers and accepting intro with pel perfect feet grace and with wills withas as ns dignity as al their tiny bodies would holdos much dignity BB as If It they the thc I had been b n six ala feet high Yet Vet again I have hae known Japanese women In business one keeping a u tiny cigar shop sho In her own home and as al always always always ways charming customers to her tier with wilts her sweet temper and an nn another other oher tho thu th manager of at a n dully daily dull Japanese newspaper hustling out and gather lag Ing In In lit advertisements tram from merchants white yellow and brown and achieving as ns great success s with her small paper as os any white American man non could have done Last Las I of ot allI think of ot It Il with wills have hass seen young YOUn Japanese women tricked out In brilliant raiment degraded dc soul saul and body In Pacific coast const cities of oC the Unit United United United ed States Stated Yet Vet YI one and amI all wherever you are arc artist or writer who knows lenow you Oll and seeks socks to lo paint you with brush or pen approaches you with gentle loving touch 0 little vale pale brown women of t Japan I You know knots slot not western conven tonalities but you aro are all alt tho the sweeter and brighter for tor your Ignorance of or some of ot them so we forgive you OU and love you Just the same ume You have hD ve not the faint taint faintest faintest est cst notion that there thero Is Immodesty In traversIng the streets street without stock Ings lags nor norla norIs la there for tor you bless your tiny toes If I a handsome young mUll mass especially n II white while man so takes your maiden fancy tancy that you OU fail heartbreak heartbreakIngly heartbreakingly In love with him you see se no reason why liy you should not at nt once propose to him and ask him to marry you nor liar I again Is then ther any nn reason any reason at all why you should not bless you youAl At Al Manila one of ot the customers of at tho th Japanese e restaurant was a good looking young American lie He had not lived long enough In that region relon to become entire entirely ly I case hardened so preserved some of at atthe the lie manly bashfulness which he took with him from his let Itt letus us say sa The fhe youngest and prettiest the most moot Innocent Inno of ot tho the Japanese waitress waitresses es OS In the blue kimonos stamped with bin big peacock peR cock feathers fea rested her sparkling narrow black eyes upon him and It stirred commotion In her gentle breast She Sho loved at once apparently for tor the first time In her life loved the young American She Sho gave him to lo know It Il dully daily when She ohe brought the tho tea and melon or whisked about with the lace lacelike lacelike lacelike like blue und and pink paper serviettes She discovered that the tho youth youths she alit loved was going to leave her wan about to sail away south to tar for Sulu among the Die Moms Moras and Mohammedan savages There Thero was ns no time line to be lost Choosing nn an occasion when he was IS not beset besel by lIy cruel guying gu ln comrades she made known In tender accents tears trem trembling rem bling upon her dark lashes the state of her affections Making no bones of ot the matter she begged to be allowed to be become boo become come como his 1118 wife forthwith You are arc going tar far away she Bhe mur mm murmured murmured inured In irs the most fascinating limping English l Take me with you as your our wife I will wilt obey you In everything I will keep your our house and caro for tor you Oll OllIn In all ways was only let me go with you ou If It you dont Ilont I shall never see you again I 1 I will never be In your our way never give Ilvo you OU trouble Only Dilly take me meShe mel She looked like ilkI a jeweled bullfinch In distress ns as she mudo her childish peti petition lion Ion so s ridiculous yet touching withal that hat the young oung or was waft It n a i not whether to laughs laugh or to kiss h her he rt tears tear away awny mere nere was temptation to do the tho ho latter hut Inti he lie did not An ts t told you OU he lie was bashful blushful there thoro were ere others In the tho way was wn perhaps heartless American soldier peeping J through the bamboo switch screen lIe He dared not comfort com tort her tier ho he could not marry her tier He lIe blush blushed ed ti actually reddened all over his Ills and aM neck and gave gac a 1 sort sorl of grin and If It his hll own dear dent mother mOlher had seen him bUn at nt that moment she sh would have vowed yowell he hI looked lIke liko a fool tool He lie finished his hiM tea tel lt In a gulp to make It look like business and hastened from the tho scene leaving the birdlike tiny waitress with the tho pur pie plo black hair and the blue kimono i with the lie peacock leacock feathers teat hers on It stand stall standing stallIng ing lag looking after atter him forlorn and love lovelorn lovelorn I lorn the tears upon her cheeks checks As All a n matter of fact Japanese women do tin occasionally marry white men They are glad to do so 80 So are all nil tho lie other othes women of ot tho the oriental races because white while men treat their wives bettor better than tho the brown and yellow men do though In n this respect Japanese hiss him hands bands ate are superior to other Japanese mothers molher among the common people carry their Infants upon their backs In a bag LilA tied around the waist and neck The baby Is Into this hits bog bag Jog lift its legs legi spread atarI around Its It mothers mothern waist Its head i sticking out over her shoulder and there It I is carried till It Il can cnn go alone alono But Dut the tho alert bright minded brown blown woman Is rapidly rapId I learning and utilizing the opportunities of her western well tern sill ala era Scores of ot Japanese women and girls como come every overy year to Europe arid and I America to l III 10 o educated Once when 1 was In Hawaii a ship bound from Yoke Yoko Yokohama hama to Sun San Francisco 1 made the usual 24 hours stop atop at Honolulu One of ot her passengers was sas a young oung Japanese prin princess princess cess a 1 bright faced Intellectual looking girl who was as on her tier way to California to enter a college collego there She Sho was taking tha tho tie full fult course and alid In duo time would n return to her own land as highly edit and up U to date an all any assy college bred Jred American girl Yet this princess of ot the blood was WIlS traveling second cabin In order ord r that she abc might eke out her money and turn It In on her education What princess of ot any an other nation would have hae done that What American girl college student There are arc Japanese women doctors doctor teachers eachers merchants and writers These women of ot the tho Island Empire Umpire have save not nol the he freedom and honor of ot their sisters sIster In n America but they arc are not under so much restraint as Spanish women and they hey have Ine to a a considerable degree th the approval and encouragement of at their men nen In their attempt 1 to rend the veil nil which holds hilds In darkness tho feminine sex In iii the tha orient No other men of an an oriental orl nation thus encourage their wives and daughters to make of ot o them themselves themselves selves new women On the theatrical stage In China and Japan parts have been Leen personal er td ed Il by men us liS they thoy still are aro In China In Japan however women are now per permitted permitted In the profession and andone one or two have luo won distinction In this Held fIeld ld I have seen recently a II copy of oC n it U 1 Japanese periodical In which a famous was wall sketched and a 11 1 pictured much after the Iho fashion of western vestern snag mag Tk Thin Thill Japanese laity lady star was wad G H H represented In ono one picture In her dress W R RIng Ing lag room loom where her manservant hind hall w Just juit Ju t finished attiring her for tor her part The Tho outlook for tor womankind In lii Japan rp is hopeful altogether so 10 And Japans ij I best guarantee for future civilization E Dp HM not so BO much In ties her new navy an nil In inthe I Ithe the thi rapidly Increasing enlightenment of or ather her women omen rhey They are lively lovable hIe and and Rifted gIfted Wed worthy to be Lo welcomed among their sisters of or western civilized t nations ALICE W V MORTIMER m m fill I rl roe 1 rv Tw TwIll T Ill Ih I Ii lIsI aver 1 Ja In IntI v tI mt mtv 0 J Joa rot oa 3 nt nl a ay ayt I It Iva t A 3 J t isi I va gres grest t WU ht r a Yo i i pit II 3 t Norl iy h t to tut tsat mb t t j oo m il ili i I IIii n Iii 9 1 Photo full Fish ty br Mn HAT OF OP STRAW AND CHIFFON ath ith th jur Jurt |