Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Easy-Going Japanese Women. [ARTICLE]

Easy-Going Japanese Women.

“The secret, perhaps,’’says a traveler, “of the sweet expression and habitual serenity of the Japanese women can. be found in their freedom from small worries. The fashion of dress never varying saves the wear of mind on that subject. And the bareness of the bouses and simplicity of diet make housekeeping a mere bagatelle. “Everything is exquisitely clean and easily kept so. There is no paint, no drapery, no orown of little ornaments, no coming into the houses with the footgear worn in the dusty streets. And there is the peaceful feeling of living in rooms that can be turned into balconies and verandas at a moment’s notioe, of haring walls that slide away as freely as do the scenes on the stage and let in all out of doors, or change the suites to the shape and size that the whim of tho day or the hour requires. ”