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212 NOTICE OF BOOK.
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A Lady's Visit To Manilla And Japan. By ...
dark no instance eyes . could Many discover of them one wore really their pretty hair loose face . , and Som in e indeed some it , had was sp so lendid long
referring m that It was reached to impossibl nature the the ground degraded of e " for their po the m sition arriages writer of their ; to subjects visit women Chin so , and a often , without to dis the
cussed ercenary that we forbear extracts . The horrors of infanticide are described , and the and " institution of the "
most appears revol under ting charac a peculiar ter . phase at Shanghae , one
numbers " One day round we went Shang to hae inspect They one of the wells baby surrounded towers , of b wMch walls there with are
apertures le ' s children through which which die the . in bodies infancy are are , are thrown wrapped in . up It in appears straw y and that deposited all , poor
in Th peop one emit of these a terrible towers , , odour to avoid and the when expense the of m coffins ass of and straw burial bundles ceremonies almost .
reaches ey the top of the tower , , it is emptied , the contents are burnt , and the ashes spread as manure over the fields . "
more curious Among alarmin accoun the g t ex strange of tent hair . - scenes dressing From the in ; n an Japan ativ art e , p n the aintings owhere head author , carried dress some gives idea to but a
the can * Ibe method formed by of which the it general is elaborated structur may e of the be new t - man , y of usparticularly as the coinier is generally a woman .
ther " , On had riding been up a great to the influx hotel of at visitors the village , and were of Kanagowa not long , we in discovering found that her functions the
both heads that equall a of hair the y -dresser ladies elaborat present was e and busil . laborious I y witnessed engaged , and two in made exercising different an exact sty memorandum les of hair fewer -dressing on of than the , various articles used during the whole We counted no
twenty-eight small combs , numbers of process lengths . of black thread , white ditto , thick and black thus kind grease more of ( waxy made subservient -looking use of to in grease the order will , app not of lied the to in show operator order amid to . the make Besides jetty the all these tresses hair of which were stiff , ) a ,
endless quantities of wire shapes , pads , and papers cut to sizes , were The in Japanese constant requisition women have . no parting in the centre , but a piece of hair half in breadththe divisions
immediately in front is divided off an . inch and a , and on kept length each generally shaved from side , the of the joined this forehead front lock in p with iece j . oining The the being in hair back the tied for though middle immediatel a smal it of l is the space sometimes y head above behind , about the cut this shaved half quite is a always finger short part ,
after it is tied . , then The tied hair and at the some back portions and sides dressed is suffered , all the to rest grow being very long reunited , separated and again off , , too intricatto
admit divided of , rolled any intelli over g pads ible attempt or round of shapes explan , but ation in . a The manner mode most generall e y large adopted bunch , probably of hair from b the eing the least of the elaborate headthe of all front I saw dressed , consists as usual of a
on crown , , leaving according "but to little the hair means immediatel , station y , at or the the back toilette . This the bunch occasion they , requires decorate of ins ,
invariabl and beads y with arrange some d in ornament quite as or inexp other licable , not unfrequentl a manner as y consisting the head gear p of ,
the Chinese ladies . "
212 Notice Of Book.
212 NOTICE OF BOOK .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Nov. 2, 1863, page 212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02111863/page/68/
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