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Show A Little Too Much Civilization. A lady correspondent of the Clcve land HrraUl writes from WashiDCton: There arc live ladies with the Japanese Japan-ese embassy. They have not appeared at any of the receptions, it not being in accordance with the Japanese "code" 1 of etiquette for their wives, mothers and sisters dear to appear on such occasions. oc-casions. Well, some emissary of the PriDce of Darkness came and whispered whisper-ed in their ears that they mast adopt a little no, tho greater hall' of our mist-TV and our civilization, the Ameri can costume. Tho gentle Japanese sisters lent a willing ear to theso suggestions, sug-gestions, and forthwith there appeared an executioner, the fashionable Mme. do P . They were laced up and tied down, rufllcd, paniered, flounced, bowed and trailed; shod in the high-heeled high-heeled boots of civilization, and one size smaller than thcirfect. Their heads, which they wear oomfortably half clad, were loaded with rounds of genuine American hair, at heaven knows what prioc they don't regard expense. And then they were powdered up from an orange-peel hue to a delicate lemon, and pronounced perfect, as far as dress goes, "And that is all the way, my dears," Madame K said. Imagine Im-agine her dismay upon re-entering the room an hour later with some little ornament or-nament she had forgotten, to find them smiling and happy in their half petti-o petti-o tat, half pantaloon drcs-. I know it is true that the gentle Japs threw oft the yoke, I heard it from an eye-wit-t ness, and I auJ proud to note it, lor the j encouragement of my sex. |