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Show Taken from "The Mikado." Pretty as she is on a pictured fan, a Japanese woman is far more satisfying to the aesthetic soul as she patters along, alive, on her wooden clogs or straw sandals, san-dals, writes a correspondent of the Boston Herald. The poorest woman in her single, cheap, cotton gown or kimono is as much a picture as her richer sister in silk and crape. With their heads elaborately elab-orately dressed, and folds of gay crape or a glittering hair-pin thrust in the smooth loops of blue-black hair, they seem always in gala array, and, rain or shine, never cover those elaborate coiffures with anything more than a paper umbrella. Eelow that, the loose dress, opening in a point nearly the waist, has lining and folds of gayer crapes and silks laid inside, and the glory of the toilet culminates with the broad obi or sash. The obis of striped and figured crapes, brocades and silks are lined with stiffly-starched cloth, wound round and round the waist and fastened in a cushion-like bow at the back. The long, loose sleeves give grace and ease to the scant, smooth gown, and each slender figure is a pretty study by herself. The sweet, soft voices, the gentle manners, man-ners, and the elaborato courtesv displayed dis-played by every one of them add the last and most gracious touches to these picturesque pic-turesque and irresistibly charming women. |