Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1894 — EMPRESS OF JAPAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EMPRESS OF JAPAN.

An Interesting Little Perßonage the Ou.’y Wife o’ the Mikado. An Interesting little personage is the Empress of Japan, who is the only wife of the Mikado, though many imagine he hasadozenor more.

The Empress is 41 years of age, one year younger than her husband. She is not so tall as American women, is slender and very straight. For the last sixteen years she has worn European dress. She is very fair, with rosy cheeks, large eyes, and a finely shaped

mouth. Even without her imperial rank she would be the universally acknowledged belle of Japan. She is immensely interested in the education of the gentler sex and in charitable works of all kinds. She, is a fine scholar of both polite literature and music, and plays the piano well. Her poems have been set to music and used as imperial songs. She is the founder of the Red Cross Society in Japan, frequently visits the hospitals, and gives to each patient as much consolation and care as if she were a simple white-capped nurse of the Red Cross.

EMPRESS OF JAPAN.