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THE UGLY AMERICAN CIRL.
Comments of Two Japanese Women Over,
heard in That Country.
The beauty and charm of the Ameri¬
can girl is so generally conceded that
it may be a surprise to learn that there
is a spot on the earth where her ap¬
pearance fails to make a favorable im¬
pression; where, in fact, her features
are regarded as the reverse of prepos¬
sessing. In this respect an American
girl, recently returned from the Orient,
relates an experience that has since
kept her wondering if the compliments
she so often receives are not the most
barefaced flattery and the looking glass
a miserable deception.
It happened in this way: A short time
before leaving Japan she was visiting
a friend who resided in a. part of the
country little frequented by foreigners.
One afternoon they were sauntering
down the quaint main thoroughfare of
the town, much observed by the popu¬
lace in general, when they became con¬
scious that they were the objects of cu¬
rious attention on the part of ttvo Jap¬
anese girls, evidently of the well-to-do
class, in particular, who followed close
on their footsteps.
Presently the resident turned to her
visitor with a smile and remarked: “It
seems w r e are the subjects of a good
deal of comment on the part of the
young women following us. What do
you think they are saying?”
“I cannot guess,” the visitor replied.
“Please tell me.”
“Well, you must promise not to turn
and violently resent their criticisms.”
“Certtiinly.”
“Then this is a translation of what
they have been saying about us. Said
Miss Peach Blossom to the Hon. Miss
Chrysanthemum: ‘Oh, do look at those
foreign women. See how strangely they
are dressed. They wear short kimonos
just like the men. -How very improper!’
“ ‘Yes,’ acquiesced the other. ‘The
foreign women have no taste in dress.
In Tokio, where I have been once, no
foreign woman’s toilet is complete
without a stuffed bird on her head. If
she has not enough money to buy a
whole stuffed bird she buys a head, the
wings or some feathers. They are very
Btiange, the foreign women!’
“ ‘But,’ exclaimed the first, ‘did you
potice the terrible size of the noses of
these two foreign women? Are the
noses of all the foreign women as large
ns these?’
“ ‘Yes, they are as large, but they are
proud of their large noses. The foreign
women do not consider a large nose a
disfigurement.’
a i How very strange! And see, their
eyes are as round as the full moon!’
“ ‘Yes, as round as the full moon.
They stare at you without any expres
Bion or feeling.’
“‘And their walk! Do look at their
walk, so ungainly; just like the great,
big birds!”
“Stop!” interposed the visitor. “I’ve
heard enough, or I shall begin to im
agine I’m the most hideous creature on
earth.”
“You will get many such shocks to
vanity if you stay long enough in Ja¬
pan,” laughingly returned the resident.
—Kansas City Star.
Exaggerated Elaboration.
White is to have a wonderful vogue
this year; white cloth, alpaca or voile
gowns for daytime, white silk or crepe
de Chine for evening, and white lace
gowns remain forever paramount. A
novel fashion, which is not perhaps en¬
tirely admirable, is a combination of
three or four sorts of lace, thus, white
Irish lace will be found trimmed with
Alencou and black Chantilly and Mal¬
tese, and the whole will be seen gar¬
landed with chiffon roses, says the De
lineator. Elaboration on elaboration
piled might aptly describe such fash¬
ions, but these, however, do not domin¬
ate the market, simple and most admir¬
able frocks for evening wear being
made entirely of lace and bearing as
their sole trimming killings of chiffon
beneath the pointed outlines.
Bangle Buckles.
Bangle buckles are quite the newest
fancies in summer jewelry. A woman
resurrects her discarded dimes with
monograms, metal trinkets of any fa¬
vored kind and hangs them, each on a
gilt or silver chain, from long narrow
buckles worn at the front of her belt.
It is a showy ornament, and women of
taste semi to avoid wearing other
chains or chatelaines with the bangle
buckle, which lias come just in time to
serve as a new toy for the summer girl.
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Bands of embroidered pongee are
among the dress trimmings.
( Lady apples with flowers and foliage
form one of the fashionable hat decora¬
tions.
Red poppies and wheat encircle a
wide, drooping rimmed hat of a deep
straw color.
A shell comb for the hair with the
top set with large jiieees of pink coral
is rather new in the way of combina¬
tions.
Wild strawberries — replicas in size
and color of the natural fruit—form the
trimming on some summer hats. Fol¬
iage is mingled with the berries in ar¬
tistic combination.
Perforated hearts are used for the
young woman who likes an atmosphere
of sweet odors about her, and they
take the place of the ordinary round
perforated scent balls.
A simple straw is trimmed with blue
and white polka dotted silk, and with
two quill-like affairs, which look like
two broad blades of grass. The deep
green with the blue is good.
Foreign fashion notes say that black
silk gowns have been raised again to
the pinnacle of triumph which they
held fifty years ago, iu Paris, and also
that it is the smart women who wear
them.
The long strings of coral which are
worn about the neck and knotted just
below the waist line are often fitted
out with a tiny fan or with a small
round box, like a bonbon box. This
holds a small powder puff.
There are exquisite things seen in
matched sets of fancy bodice fronts,
shoulder collar and deeply pointed
trun-back cuffs, usually of fine line* or
lawn, all hand wrought and conse¬
quently rather high in price."
The Height of the Tallest Men,
Turner, the naturalist, declared that
he once saw, upon the coast of Brazil,
a race of gigantic savages, one of
whom was twelve feet in height. M.
Thevet, of France, In his description
of America, published at Paris in 1575,
asserted that he saw and measured
the skeleton of a South American
which was" eleven feet two inches in
length. The Chinese are said to claim
that in the last century there were
men in tlieir country who measured
fifteen feet in height. Josephus men¬
tioned *.ie case of a Jew who was
ten feet two inches in height. Tliny
tells of an Arabian giant, Gabara,
nine feet nine inches, the tallest man
in the days of Claudius. John Middle
town, born at Hale, Lancashire, in
the time of James I., was nine feet
three inches in height, his hand was
seventeen inches long and eight and
a half inches bread, says Dr. Platt in
his “History of Staffordshire.” The
Irish giant, Murphy, contemporary
with O’Brien, was eight feet ten inches.
A skeleton in the museum of Trinity
College, Dublin, is eight feet six inches
in height, and that of Charles Byrne,
in the Museum of the College of Sur¬
geons, London, is eight feet four
inches. Tlie tallest living man is
Chang-tu-Sing, the Chinese giant. His
height is seven feet three Inches.—
Medical Examiner and Practitioner.
ColorinR of Precious Stones.
Modern chemistry has produced
such changes in the colorings of many
of our stones and minerals that it is
possible to imitate many of them and
improve upon nearly ell. Any colored
onyx can be obtained by simple chem¬
ical processes, and the common dull
colors of this stone can be converted
into brilliant hues, thus greatly in¬
creasing the value. Not only can the
whole stone be made to change its color,
but sections and lines of it can be made
to assume a red, black, yellow or white
color, while the rest is pure white or
black. Agates are easily converted
into an onyx -like substance and char¬
acter, which lapidaries use for cameos
and intaglios. Altogether, our chem¬
ical treatmentof some of the abundant
stones and minerals has not only wid¬
ened and developed the resources of
the country, but it has made it possible
for the poor to possess good imitations
of jewels which at one time were con¬
sidered almost priceless. — Scientific
American.
Just About Hostlers.
An elevator man gave up his job iu
an office building last month to take
the place of hostler in a suburban ho¬
tel. He revisited the scenes of his for¬
mer employment and gave forth some
interesting hostler statistics.
“I make $11 a week salary, includ¬
ing my board,” he said, “and I run
from 87 to $10 a week in tips. An
’ostler’s job is worth in the summer at
a suburban hotel like ours $30 a week,
when you count the board in. Yon
never saw anything like the way tips
come to us hostlers. Fifty-eent pieces
are as common with us as dimes are
with waiters. This liostlering job is a
pleasant change to me from running
an elevator, where I never got any
tips at all. I am now laying by $30 a
month.”—Philadelphia Record.
Use For the Tomato Can.
The empty tomato can lias become
an article of commerce. Methods have
been perfected by which the tin of its
coat can be removed and used again
and the remaining plate made into
very fine steel by the open-hearth pro¬
cess. Heretofore scrap tin lias had no
use except for the making of iron for
window weights or like purposes in
which inertia was the only important
quality.
RAM’S HORN BLASTS.
t HE man who thinks
.14 leads the crowd.
vr A teacher is not a
CM taskmaker.
Good things al¬
ways given bad
ft men. Some
men are
born with the
brakes set.
The vision is only
for the seeing heart.
Heroes never see
ihemselves in the
glass.
Logics will not illumine until it is on
fire with love.
Culture is not character, but char¬
acter is culture.
There are no sins that a man may
keep to himself.
When a man is his own god he is
other people’s devil.
Some men march to bell to the time
of "heavenly tunes.
The heart within to resist evil is bet¬
ter than a fence without.
You cannot estimate a man’s mes¬
sage by the size of his mouth.
An iron key may open a golden door.
God refreshes the leaves by watering
the roots.
Imagine an angel with a pipe in his
mouth.
The nimble nickel has tripped up
many a saint.
The stream of life rises not above its
source.
The throne of grace is not a bar
gain counter.
All social problems center in the sin
problem.
The only thing that comes to the
man who waits is the dust from the
processions.
Deep digging must go before high
building.
Sin is not essential to commercial
success.
The love is not fautless that falters
at a fault.
Trials are heavenly teachers in
earthly guise.
The pulpit easily becomes a platform
tut nririo ynue.
•JSSSSSS swvssc
cation into the politicians.
A woman may have opened the doer
to sin but man gave it the glad hand
as soon as he got home.
Classified *
During an enA uses of the Na *
tional . Guard ■ ■S>»" s «
and happening tophss a farmhouse
near the encampment grounds, one of
them suggested stopping in for a glass
of milk. On going inside the yard
they were met by the farmer’s daugh¬
ter, who brought forth a can of butter
milk, and some tumblers, saying:
“This is the only kind of milk we
have.”
After each of the party had taken a
drink one of them remarked:
“By George, that’s fine; can you let
us have some more?”
The lass replied:
“Oh, yes; take all you want; wo
feed it to the pigs,
Ihrhstos and Western GarolinaH'^ Co
ICtiUSTA AND ASHEVILLE SHORT LINE.
Schedule in Effect Dee. 29, 1901.
Liv Augusta........ 10 05 a 2 55 p
hr Greenwood...... 12 39 p .....
hr Anderson....... 7 15 p
hr Laurens......... rH 40 5 35 a
hr Greenville....... CO 25 10 30 a
hr Glenn Springs. . 9 00
hr Spartanburg...... 3 30 p a
hr Saluda........... 5 33 p ......
hr Hendersonville ... 6 11 p ......
hr Asheville 7 15 p ......
Lv Asheville 7 05 a
▼ Hendersonville. . 8 05 a
v Fiat Kock....... 8 15 a ......
Lv Saluda.......... 8 39 a ......
Lv Tryon.......... 9 13 a ......
Lv Spartanburg..... 12 15 a 4 00 p
Lv Gieun Springs.. . 513: 1 45
Lv Greenville ..12 p p
Lv Laurens ,2 p 6 30 p
Lv Anderson...... s; .. 7 25 a
Ar Greenwood..... 3 p 8 35 p
Ar Augusta........ .5 £ p 11 35 a
Lv Greenwood 5 P
Ar Raleigh.... H a
Ar Norfolk.... a
Ar Petersburg. D a
Ar Richmond.. n a
Lv Augusta... • ... * • ... H C* N3
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Ar Allendale.. • * • * tO O 3 ,,
Ar Fairfax.... • ' • • 03 K 5 0 >,
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Ar Augusta... M O O
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all points on S. A. L. and C. & G.
Kailway and at Spar'wnburg with Sou¬
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tickets, rates, schedules, etc., address
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E. M. Nobth, Sol. Agt., Augusta, Ga.
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15)01-1902.
Fall term of four months begins September 2, 1901,
Spring term of five months begins January 6, 1902.
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