Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1912 — Corner for the Juniors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Corner for the Juniors

SHOP DISPLAYS IN HONGKONG Articles of Dress or Personal Adornment Bhown on Wax Figures Chinese to Wonder. Several of the more pretentious Chinese shops in Hongkong are commenclhg to use wax figuresfor displaying various articles of dress or personal adornment It has been a subject of considerable wonder'on the part of foreigners that the Chinese people have evinced such a marked interest in wax figures displayed in foreign establishments, says an exchange. A hair-dressing establishment in Hongkong’s principal retail thoroughfare has displayed several wax busts showing late styles in hairdressing for some time, and there is scarcely a time during the pleasant days when there 4s not a crowd of Chinese —women, business men, coolies and all —about the windows of that establishment. Chinese merchants In Hongkong’s Chinese quarter who have adopted this

means of displaying goods have dressed a wax manikin in a Chinese girl’s costume and are thus presenting goods like toilet articles, patent medicines, foreign novelties and potions. Another establishment has a wax figure of a girl in Chinese costume —a figure with Chinese features and made to resemble a Chinese girl in all respects—displaying a somewhat foreignized model Chinese gown In a somewhat fpreigpIzed Chinese bedroom interior, a model apartment designed to appeal to wealthy Chinese with more or less foreign experience and Ideal*.

Gazing at Wax Figure.