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Show WAP. MADE CHANGE IN STYLE. Japanese Women No Longer Elaborately Elabo-rately Dress Hair. "Of all her earthly possessions a Japaneso woman most values her hair," writes Mrs. Hugh Fraser. "It Is her crown, her veil, tho mark of her womanhood, that which tells hor nn (tbers wbnl sho Is. Tho county lltlo for the house ir.lstrcsn Is 'O Ka-t Kan,' 'she of the honorable hair,' am (3xt to tho binding of tho obi, whlcr h tho mark of modesty, nothing Is o' such Importance ns the caro of th hair, few sacrifices so great as the re ltnqulshmcnt of the proper dresslnr (hereof. "As for dressing her hair herself no Japaneso womnn enn do that, an J all, except the most miserably poor have been In tho habit of paying 30 sen (15 cents) a month to tho hairdresser hair-dresser to tnko care of It for them. Since tho beginning of the Russinn war this sum has been almost universally uni-versally laid aside to hand over to the war fund, and, coming regulnrly from millions of women, has amounted to a very respectable whole. "The result has been a curious change In the appearance of these sturdy llttlo patriots. When I was In Japan before I hnrdly over saw n woman with her hair down; now there aro hundreds In tho streets, their silky locks being merely turned back from the forehead with a comb, and hanging down In n beautiful mantle far below their waists." |