Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1892 — Why the Japanese Women Look Pleasant. [ARTICLE]

Why the Japanese Women Look Pleasant.

Perhaps the secret of the sweet expression and habitual serenity of the Japanese women can be found in their freedom from small worries. The fashion, of drest never . varying, saves the wear of mind on that subject, and the bareness of the houses and simplicity of diet makes housekeeping a mere bagatelle. Everything is exquisitely clean, and easily kept so. There is no paint, no drapery, no crowd of little ornaments, no coming into the houses with the footwear worn into the dusty streets. Aad then the feeling of living in rooms that can be turned into balconies and verandas at a moment’s notice, of having walls that slide away as freely as do the scenes on the stage, and let in all or change the suites of rooms to the shape and size that the whim of the day or the hour requires. The Japanese are learning much from us, some things not to their improvement. We might begin, with profit to ourselves to learn of them.