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Show JAPANESE PROGRESS. Western Ideas Adopted by the Mikado's Fair Subjects. The ladies of Japan show not less readiness to adopt Western ideas and usages than the Japanese of the'other sex. The belles of Yedo order dresses from Paris ; and the progress of imita- j tion has gone so far as to make a knowledge of the fashionable dances of Europe an . indispensable feature . in the education of every Japanese lady who respects herself, Equestrianism has not, however, figured so far ia the list of feminine accomplishments in the dominions of the Mikado ; not, it seems, from any aversion on the part of the ladies to take pattern" ty theirJEuropean sisters in this as in other respects, but simply because no means of mas-, termg the art of horsewomanship as it is practiced in the 3Vest existed in the country. A riding school is, however, about to be opened in Yokohama exclusively ex-clusively for the use of native ladies, and it promises to be largely patronized. patron-ized. The Japanese Government is about to take steps which will have the effect of bringing the more solid branches of Western education within the reach of the female subjects of the Mikado. A number of young women are about to be sent to Europe to receive a thorough training train-ing in the essential branches of female education as it is understood there, with a view to their subsequent emplovment as teachers in their own counbv'when qualified. St. James' Gazette. |