. William H. Seward's travels around the world. chains, bracelets,and foreign rings, and inspected them carefully. At the same timethey put into the hands of their visitors their own ornaments,pearls, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and amethysts. After this theladies of the house examined the American ladies dresses, hats,and gloves, marking well the fashion and material, and in a gentleand unaffected way offered to inspection their own richer and moreelegant costumes of silk and embroidery. The wife is a delicaterlooking woman of forty. She wore a lavender-colored, embroid-ered crepe petticoat,
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. chains, bracelets,and foreign rings, and inspected them carefully. At the same timethey put into the hands of their visitors their own ornaments,pearls, emeralds, sapphires, rubies, and amethysts. After this theladies of the house examined the American ladies dresses, hats,and gloves, marking well the fashion and material, and in a gentleand unaffected way offered to inspection their own richer and moreelegant costumes of silk and embroidery. The wife is a delicaterlooking woman of forty. She wore a lavender-colored, embroid-ered crepe petticoat, over this a double tunic of two pretty shadesof blue silk, trimmed with a variegated chintz border, scarlet satinembroidered under-sleevcs, so long as nearly to conceal the slenderhands—the nails, as long as the lingers, polished and stained to re-semble tortoise-shell, each nail having for its protection a wroughtgold case. Her coarse, black Mongolian hair, carefully dressedand fastened with gold pins, was partly covered with a black-satin. LONG NAILS. cap, tied at the back. This cap, not unlike in shape to the MaryStuart, was entirely seeded with pearls, rubies, emeralds, andsapphires, many of them, especially the pearls, large, and of rarevalue. Her feet, of which only occasional glimpses could be had,were not more than three inches long, and were tightly encasedin scarlet-satin shoes; her face and neck, literally plastered withpearl-white, in shocking contrast with eyelids and cheeks paintedpink, and lips red; her manners and speech are unmistakably 150 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. refined; she is reputed intellectual, and fond of books. The firehandmaidens were dressed in a manner which, though not inele-gant, showed the inferiority of their position—one of them veryhandsome, dressed in scarlet satin, but none of the five wore jewels,or had small feet. The wife has no children ; two of the waiting-women have. While, by the custom of China, these children areaccredi
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