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Show EMPEROR SETS NEW FASHION. Ruler of China Kissed a'small American Ameri-can Girl. Mrs. Archibald Little In a recent magazine artlclo says in describing tho Chlneso court, that tho empress dowager is of "tho typo so well known in ovory land where society oxlsts. Were sho an English mother sho would, ono feels at once, mnrry all hor daughters to oldest sons, Irrespective of whether thoy woro lunatics or confirmed con-firmed dipsomaniacs." The emperor of China Is of another disposition. At a party ho repeatedly kissed a llttlo Americnn girl of 5 years. "How had tho very idea of such a thing over boon suggested to him? No Chlnoso man throughout tho wholo length and breadth of tho vast Chlneso emplro ever kissed wlfo or child unless ho has boon taught to do so by a foreigner. for-eigner. No Chlneso mother even kisses her child. Tho nearest sho gets to it is lifting her child's faco up to hers nnd, ns it were, smelling at It. Yot hero wag, tho emperor of China evidently evi-dently versed In tho practice, so that directly ho saw this forolgn littlo girl ho took her up and kissed her as if It woro tho most natural thing in tho world, whilst to tho everyday Chinaman China-man this would bo a most unnatural and Indeed repulsive process." |
