Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1912 — Comer for the Juniors [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Comer for the Juniors

SHOP DISPLAYS IN HONGKONG Articles of Dress or Personal Adornment Shown on Wax Figures Cause Chinese to Wonder. Several of the more pretentious Chinese shops in Hongkong are commencing to use wax figures for 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 Is 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 notions. Another establishment has a wax figure of a girl In Chinese costume —a figure with Chinese features and made t j resemble a Chinese girl In all respects—displaying a somewhat foreignized model Chinese gown in a somewhat, foreignized Chinese bedroom interior, a model apartment designed to appeal to wealthy Chinese with more or less foreign experience and ideals.

Gazing at Wax Figure.