Show EDUCATED IN AMFHICl ou > u OMEX rnou LAaDOr THE MIKADO TRAINED 1 > TUB UNITED STATES The Countess Ojana wife of the Japanese minister of war Is one DC the few ladles of the court circle ot Toklo who receive at their own homes in the native costume which Tun > can fashions are so feet driving lbtI nk J I ing out of the land 7 the Mikado I The countess prefers the comfortable and picturesque Japanese dres to the foreign costumes which the court has adopted and this In rlle of the fact that she Is one of the first I J ifemcse women educated In America I Am-erica having graduated at Vassar in ISSN the only woman of her race who has received the baccalaureate degree I > lematz Ynmaknwa as she was known before her marriage spent about ten years In this country cvm Ins with the Japanese embassy of s t and returning so thoroughly Americanized that she had almost forgotten her own language She is remembered by her college mates as in extremely attractive girl pretty even to American eyes tallgra eful and well formed To return to her native country was toniithmirof I an ordeal She came here girl of I adopted Uie Christian religion and the customs and luiMu of thought el western civilization and went back a marriageable woman of 22 with the knowledge that her parents would immediately find husband ocher very possibly one ootlt all Ins m i pathy with her ideas Fortunately the chosen spouse was Count Iwao Oyana who wa himself educated In France and as hose wife she has taken immcdl ate rank in social and phllnnthro circles In Toklo A number of Japanese Jap-anese women have since come to this country students and several are here now Miss Shlgc Kagal 1 entered tie i aekar school of Music in 1ST5 and made a love match with Lieu Urlu tiC die Japanese navy who was educated by his government gov-ernment our naval academy at Annapolis and first met his piquant countrywoman at a Vassar fete to which numbcrof Annapolis youths were Invited The wedding was agreed upon before be-fore either returned home One of the festivities attendant on the marriage mar-riage In Toklo wa the amateur presentation pre-sentation of the Merchant of Venice Ven-ice before the court and Mikado Miss Units Ttudi studied at the Archer Inslilutuln Vnshlngt o and U now teaching In Tokio at the Peeresses School for Japanese noblewomen no-blewomen Mls liin Kato who returned to Japan siwnt scone time as a secdal nvw student at 1Vrnesly ASLa iana HnMn is In New York mating a special study of kindergarten methods meth-ods One or two Japmire girls have taken courses at the New Haven and othcrtrainlngschoolsfor nnrfi j and one of the moat Industrious itu dente in the classes at the Art Stu dente league at present is a bright and interesting Japanese girl Ja pdneoc women have graduated from our normal schools for teachers and one at least has done well at a medical medi-cal cboolJz r |