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Show WAR MADE CHANGE IN STYLE. Japanese Women Mo Longer Elaborately Elabo-rately Dress Hair. "Of all her earthly possessions a JiTpanesa women most values her hair," writes Mrs. Hugh Frascr. "It Is her crown, her veil, tho mark of her womanhood, that which tells her nn' rtbers wbat sho Is. Tho counn fltte for tho housd mistress Is 'O Kn t San,' 'sho of the honorable hair,' nm" (3xt to the binding of tho obi, which ! the mark of modesty, nothing Is of such Importanco ns tho caro of the hair, few sacrifices so great as tho re llnqulshment of tho proper drcssln; thereof. "As for dressing her hair herself no Japanese woman can do that, an J all, except tho most miserably poor have been in tho habit of paying 30 sen (IB cents) a month to tho hairdresser hair-dresser to take caro of It for them Slnco the beginning of tho Hussion war this sum has been almost universally uni-versally laid BBido to hand over to the wnr fund, and, coming rcgulnrly from millions of women, hns amounted to n Very respectable whole "The result has been n curious change In tho nppenrance of these sturdy llttlo patriots. When I wns In Japan beforo I hardly over Fnw n woman with her hnlr down; now thore arc hundreds In tho streets, their silky locks being merely turned back from the forehead with a comb, and hanging down In n beautiful mantle fur below their waists." |