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Show JAP BEAUTY SEEKS HUSBAND, '- .' Japanese woman can be as poetie and picturesque In search of a husband aa she Is In every thing else. A matrimonial advertisement, ad-vertisement, printed In Tokyo, reads: , 1 am a very pretty little woman, with looks thick and wavy, like the clouds. My face haa the brilliancy and aa tin-like text-XI text-XI 1 th flwfa. my figure la flexible ' like the weeping willow, and my eyea have the curve of the crescent moon. I . 1 have enough fortune to enable me to walk f I through life, the hand of my beloved one .- 1 in mine, contemplating the flowers by dar and the moon by night. If this meets the eye of an intelligent, agreeable, handsome gentleman of good taste. I will unite myself my-self to him for Ufe. and share with him later the pleasure of being buried together togeth-er In a tomb of roeo-oolored marble." The latest census shows 34600 mar- . rlages In Japan In the year. Net one bride was more than 22 years old. Forty-two were only 16. 7S9 were 14, 6831 were 17 17.404 were 19, 18.400 were 20. |