Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1885 — Chinese Woman’s Tresses. [ARTICLE]

Chinese Woman’s Tresses.

Joe James, whose other name was left behind him in the Flowery Kingdom, rejoices in the possession of the only almond-eyed wife this side of the Mississippi. He is as proud of her as is a boy of a new red wagon. When a reporter of the press saluted the slanteyed beauty in the store last evening she sat upon a tea chest, coyly displaying the tips of her tiny feet, for she is a “little-foot” woman her husband says. She wore her hair in wonderful style—like the wings of a bat, making her hair resemble a schooner yacht running before the wind, with foresail and mainsail spread to port and starboard. The black tresses were stiffened with wires and glossy with grease. It takes six hours to do up this wonderful headdress, gnd in order that the dizzy affair shall not be spoiled, the fair owner sleeps with a block of wood under her neck. In this way the dressing of the hair lasts three weeks.— Philadelphia Press.