. William H. Seward's travels around the world. day in the most public places. The women brush the 40 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. hair away from the temples a la Pompadour, and gather it up undera small smooth puff at the back of the head with gilt and vermilionpins. The hair of the men is shorn entirely off the crown, leavingenough at the sides and back to be drawn upward and fastenedin a graceless and meaningless knot. The effect is simply shock-ing. The barber-work being performed only three times a week,care is taken to prevent disarrangement in the intervals. Theyuse, instead of a pil
. William H. Seward's travels around the world. day in the most public places. The women brush the 40 JAPAN, CHINA, AND COCHIN CHINA. hair away from the temples a la Pompadour, and gather it up undera small smooth puff at the back of the head with gilt and vermilionpins. The hair of the men is shorn entirely off the crown, leavingenough at the sides and back to be drawn upward and fastenedin a graceless and meaningless knot. The effect is simply shock-ing. The barber-work being performed only three times a week,care is taken to prevent disarrangement in the intervals. Theyuse, instead of a pillow, a wooden block adjusted to the shape of theneck. The pomatum so lavishly applied is extracted from an herb,which, growing in the eaves of the houses, makes a pretty greenfringe for the brown thatched roofs. They say that one of the em-perors, for sumptuary reasons, forbade the cultivation of this plantin the fields. Thus the people, while evading the law, beautifytheir dwellings. Here, as in Alaska and in ancient Mexico, civil economy re-. »** mmw^i JAPANESE GIRLS. quires that the married and unmarried women shall wear distin-guishing badges. The girl, with full hair tastefully arranged, withwhite teeth, and with the free use of cosmetics, and a scrupulouslymodest costume, is attractive; when married, her eyebrows areimmediately shaven off, her teeth are stained jet-black, the orna-ments are removed from her hair, and she becomes repulsive. JAPANESE CEMETEEIES. 41 Wherever a city of the living is, there is also a greater city ofthe dead. The Japanese bury on the hill-sides. Though cremation
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