Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1911 — JAP WOULD LAUGH AT HOBBLE [ARTICLE]

JAP WOULD LAUGH AT HOBBLE

Swedish Envoy to Japan and China, on Way From Orient, Talks of Women’s New Dress. Chicago.—“l believe the Japanese women, who are considered the most sensibly dressed of any women in the world, would laugh at the American hobble skirt." Gustav O. Wallenberg. Swedish minister to Japan and China, in Chicago the other day on bls way to his native country, made that statement. Mr. Wallenberg reserved his personal opinion on the harem, hobble and other fashions that greeted him here after an absence of several years since hi* last visit in the United State*. , t ”1 am Immensely pleased with everything and everybody here.” he said. ~I was never happier than when I caught sight of Unde Sam’s country once more, and will say for Chicago that It Is wonderful—wonderful The dty becomes greater every year." Mr. Wallenberg said Chicagoans are holding their own in th* trade in the orient • » "Americans seem to be on the ground floor in the industrial outlook In the far east” be said.

The political situation in China at present, he eay*. is quiet and he attaches slight Importance to the recent uprising at Canton.