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Show JAPANESE PRINCESS BRINGS AMERICAN SPIRIT TO PALACE there are ways of discovering what they think. Roautiful as she appeared ap-peared to most Americans, Miss Matsiulana ilid not coniurni to the: traditional type of courtly Japanese beauty wherein a slender figure and an elongated oval face are two essentials. es-sentials. Une may say tn;u sfit! wi chosen for her robust he'alth while Japanese sentiment called for a slim princess. Day-laborers, office-men and country merchants who pause for long study of the Princess Chichibit photographs in Ginza shopwindows, fell with the rest of the male population popu-lation that she is the person) ligation liga-tion of Americanism. They are glad because they sec a closer tie with the United State's in thrs new princess. prin-cess. New Era For Women Shop-girls, school-girls, ladies of the newly born Tokio "society," are all of one accord. Chichibu-no-miya hidenka holds out hope of a new era for their sex. So much of America Amer-ica touching so close' to the throne cannot fail to have some influence on the future of Japanese womanhood. woman-hood. It is inexact to speak of Prince and Princess Chichibu as the crown prince and crown princess. "Unless the ncwi c'mperor, his brother, has no son, Prince Chichibu will not succeed to the throne and Princess Chichibu will never be the empress. The Japanese people hope ar believe that the present empress will give birth Co a son, bi'caue j such a succession would be mo.st in keeping with their ideas of linavre A daughter could not succeed to the throne. i But Princess Chichibu needs ; never to sit on the throne of Japan I to accomplish the union of 'he good things of American woman hood with those of Japan and in other ways to stre-'ngthcn the bonj which Japan likes to feel exists be tween the two countries. How She Drosses She is required to wear rathet long skirts for formal affairs because be-cause of imperial household regulations. regula-tions. At other times she drosses like American young women, whether wheth-er at tennis or golf, or motorl ig. Occasionally, at home or on oth'i. informal occasions, she wears tha kimono of her own people and sits on the soft-matted floor. When the princess goes out with her prince he observes the same etiquette that prevails in America; the princess enters the car first. Nowhere else outside the advanced families of the smart Tokio upper sot, does thi? happen in Jauan. Princess Chichibu will work won dors simply by living her life as naturally na-turally as court traditions permit, i For thus she will serve as a model for the women and an inspiration to the men. if ."' r i i ' i Mil h n '? h s II 1 7 'J i - H'' ft . 3L' V,t,v , . . Here are two intimate closeups of Japan's royal princess, the formei Miss Setsu Matsudaira, daughter of the Japanese ambassador at Washington, Wash-ington, who married into Nippon's royal family that goes back for 2588 years in an unbroken line. When she attended a girls' school at Washington Wash-ington she was captain of the basketball team, tennis champion and a crack swimmer. Below is her husband, Prince Chichibu, brother of the emperor. By PERCY NOEL TOKIO, . Decrf 14,CNEA) It would be an exaggeration to say that it was the next thing . to an international marriage, but the great Japanese public feels that the wedding of Prince Chichibu with the former Miss Se'tsu Matsudaira brought something of America into the imperial household. Liike Prince Chichibu himself, other princes of the blood have had their European education, but this is the first time that the imperial family includes a princess of American Amer-ican or even of European schooling. Her father was the Japanese ambassador am-bassador at Washington. She came back to Japan just as much American as any real Japanese Jap-anese girl could be. Furthermore, she was plain Miss Matsudaira and it was generally forgot that one o her father's ancestors had not se many years ago voluntarily resigned re-signed his imperial heritage. Was Basketball Captain Any Japanese" school girl knew that hundreds of girl friends of the future princess, back in America, called her just plain "Setsu" and today to-day they may well guess that among those American girls there are' school chums who feel more like writing to her as "Dear Setsu" than "Your highness." At Friends' School in Washington, she was cap tain of the basketball team, tcrmis, champion and an excellent swimmer. swim-mer. That is only a whiff of the American Amer-ican atmosphere which the former Miss Matsudaire brought back with her from the United Staters. Her speech in English is that of a well-bred American girl who knows her French well, too. She. dresses and walks like an American and she wears a little hat pull- Qd down over her eyebrows in the.- ! stylish American way, she looks , like an American at least to Tokio people. But the important thing which Miss Matsudaira brought back from America was the spirit of the Amer- j ican girl. Not the kind which has its obvious defects, but the sort of spirit which may make the wildest of wild, cigaret-smoking, cocktail-drinking cocktail-drinking school-girls gasp with ael- I miration. That is good but fine' and noble. This type of American womanhood woman-hood is what Japanese girlhood and womanhood sees in Chichibuno- miya-hidenka Princess Chichibu ; who embodies for them much of America's modern best with the best of modern Japan. Not Beamtiful to Japanese The Japanese people do not talk about the imperial family, but that docs not prevent them thinking and |