An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . GOVERNOR TAFT AT JARO 127 women for I had seldom seen before such handsome ma-terial, rich brocaded satins, cloth of gold wrought withseed pearls and jewels; huge strings of pearls on theneck, diamond and pearl rings on the fingers and very-handsome ornaments in the hair ; every head bore a hugepompadour and every face was heavily powdered ; theperfume was stifling even with every window stretchedto the fullest extent. Each woman carried a handsomefan and e
An Ohio woman in the Philippines; giving personal experiences and descriptions including incidents of Honolulu, ports in Japan and China . GOVERNOR TAFT AT JARO 127 women for I had seldom seen before such handsome ma-terial, rich brocaded satins, cloth of gold wrought withseed pearls and jewels; huge strings of pearls on theneck, diamond and pearl rings on the fingers and very-handsome ornaments in the hair ; every head bore a hugepompadour and every face was heavily powdered ; theperfume was stifling even with every window stretchedto the fullest extent. Each woman carried a handsomefan and each was attended by at least one servant. Afterwaiting in this rigid company manner about an hour anda half, the distinguished guests arrived. We were thenentertained by some of the local artists and was vocal and instrumental music ; a fine grandpiano, very good violins, and the concert was by farthe best music I had heard in the islands. At 1:30 we were all carried over in carriages to the houseof the Presidente and thirty-five of us sat down to a verysumptuous banquet of about eighteen courses. The menuof soup,
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