| Show THE UGLY AMERICAN GIRL alio comments of two young japanese women on the plain faces of their american sisters overheard in an interior town of the Mi empire the beauty and charni of tho american fairl is BO generally conceded that it may be a surprise to learn that is a spot on the earth where her appearance pe arance fails to make a favorable impression where in fact her features arc reg ached as the reverse of prepossessing in this respect an american girl recently returned from tho orient relates an arousing experience that has since kept her wondering if tho con nientai she often received arc not the most flattery and the look ins glass a miserably deception it happened in chii way A short time before leaving japan she waa visiting a friend who resided in a part of the country little frequented by foreigners uno afternoon they were sauntering docu the quaint main thorough taro of the town much observed by the populace in general then they became conscious that they were the objects of curious attention on alo part of two japanese girla evidently of the well to do class in particular ti who followed close on their footsteps presently the resident turned to her visitor with a smile and remarked it seems we are the subjects of a good deal of comment on the part of tho young women following us what do you think they arc saying 1 I cannot guess the visitor replied please tell me well you must promise not to tuni and violently resent their criticisms certainly then this is a translation of what they have been saying about us said alias raach to the lion miss oh do look at choso foreign women how strangely they arc dressed they wear short simonos kimonos just like the men how very improper yes acquiesced alio other the foreign women have no in dress IP tokio where I 1 have been once no foreign comans womans toilette is complete without a stuffed bird on her head it she has not enough money to buy a whole stuffed bird she buys a head the wings or some feathers they are very strange the foreign women but exclaimed the first aid you natice the terrible size of the noses of these two foreign women are the noses of all foreign women as large aa these yes they are as large but they are proud of their large noses tho foreign women do not consider a largo nose a how very strange and see their eyes are as round as the full moon yes as round as the fuu moon they stare at you without any expression or feeling and their walk do look at their walk so ungainly just like great big birds stop interposed the visitor ive heard enough or I 1 shall begin to imagine pm the most hideous creature on earth 1 you will get many such shocks to vanity if yon stay long enough in japan laughingly returned tho resi i dent |
