The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1897, Page 21

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1897. 21 A NATION IN WHICH WOMEN AND MEN WEAR MUSTACHES A shipment of mastache-cups to the | mustaches when natural are always blsck; It was a village of Ainos. A serpentine island of Yesso, one of the fiorthern islands | and silky and are invariably turned up at | path wound along the cliff. In the side of the Japanese group, might turn out a | both ends.” It has just been | remind him much of the fushio tachios affected by Emperor W Germany. profitable investment. discovered that the women of that extra- ordinary place share with men the posses- " sion of a hirsute adornment of the uppe lip. A. H. Kiabvkowski, an explorin genius sent our by the Commercial Geo- graphical Society of France, is the dis- closer of this reniarkable information No such race has ever before been known to the wise ones of the earth, wherefore | the discovery niade by the gentleman with | the unpronounceable name has aroused no | little excitement among the wise ones | aforesaid, as well as interest among the people in geyeral, to whom the spectacie of A woman with a mustache is never looked for outside of a circus, and is a curiosity even in a tent with a 10-cent ad- mission fee attached. In the island of Yesso a woman withouta mustache would, | on discavery, probably be tented forth- | with and reserved for the natives to view | on payment of an ox, or some other handy form of currency, for the privilege. The Kiabukowski person affirms, upon | his protessional inveracity as an explorer | and historian, that the mustache is the distinguishing mark which muakes these native women of Yesso different from the women of any other race on the globe. The nation of Yesso has been known to exist by other explorers, who have had the provident happiness of exploring it from their study window in a New York or London tenement-house, but the cir- cumstance of the women being so strangely marked bas been withheld from their| Kkeen observation by some unfavorabie in- tervention—possibly the distance. Klabukowski departed from the habits of the profession to the unique extent of being present himself personally in his explorations, and of witnessing with his own eyes the marvelous things which were set down in books as his discoveries, | eventhough he did thereafter retura to | the conventionzl path by declaring in print that his discoveries were true. The only thing unconventional about that was that they were true, indeed. The people of this remote isiand have long been down on this map under the name of the Aino race. Revort has it that only one white man has ever been close enough to obtain able nformation concerning them, and this white man (Klabukowski) relates a wonderful and unusual story. He reports | that these women are “massive in app-ar- ance, and, in fact, appear to better physi- cal advantage than the men. They have high cheek bones, and are distinctly Cau- | t K every appearance of white women who have lived much in the open air. casian They do not have that ghastly | yellowish complexion characteristic of the | lo: Chinese and Japanese, but rather bear | m Their | in tending from the water abrupt cliffs at the oth Japanese surrounding a sin was preme intoxication. The describes the scene thusly M. Klabuko i says they of mus- iam of It was at a place called Muroran, a port the island of Yesso, that | o kowski encountered the amazing spec- tacle which distinguished him among his | white bretnren of the earth. One street satisfies the not too lively ambitions of this town of Muroran. Buildings resem- bling barracks line either side of it, ex- 8 edge to a rise of nd of town. boulevard Mr. crowd of Walking up this scenic labukowski came upon the enjo; 1 rtled explorer basking in *‘A head with an immense batch of hair and a long beard, a hairy, thick-set and robust body, covered by tunic confined at the a cort of tattered st, below which oked out a pair of strong legs—all these ade up an Aino, a man of the woods. YAt the left ata distance could be seen the curves of the bay a number of huts. Mr. Klabu- | | next the sea was an opening on the side | of those straw huts so ill-smelling that it | recailed the most wretched of the Cainha animals. The temperature was 12 to 15 | degrees below freezing. A child an- nounced the explorer’'s approach. * He en- 77 X7, 8/ T ¢/ A GROUP ‘OF [From a photograph.] tered the low doorand saw upon the floor of beaten'earth, grouped around a fire of ¢reen wood, three men, two young and one old. Their hair fell upon their shou!- ders and their beards were long and forked. Their eyes were nearly hidden beneath heavy eyebrows. Their skin was white. They were, in fact, very like types of Moujiks or Siberian peasants. ‘*At the entrance to the hut was a woman grating new potatoes into a kettle. She was not more than 20 years old. Her face was long and her cheek- | bones high. | covered by a wavy black mustache, w turned-up points. She was a mas- | sive creature with powerful muscles, but deformed by hard work. “Ina corner two dirty, half-nude chil- | dren played. In the smoky atmosphere I | could barely discern hanging from charred | cords rows of vegetables and fish and ani- AINO WOMEN. Her upuerlip was entirely | mal meats. My entrance gave the people quite a start, but they quickly recovered themselves. By a gesture resembiing a Mussulman salute the old man carried to his face his two hands and t.en smoothed | his beard. This was his way of bidding me welcome. His two companions | imitated him and then the old Aino raised in his left hand a cup full of saki. He swallowed it slowly and prayed that the gods would be favorable to the stran- ger who had come to visit them. They then assumed an impassive appearance and seemed o have forgotten me. “This was my first ghmpse of the most curiously adorned women of either the Eastern or Western hemisphere. I had heard during my journev of these queer | | tacts, but the reality was greater than the | imagination. I madea speeial study of the Aino women, and learned many curious things regarding them. It seems | that not every one can giow & mustache. No one seems to know why, nor in point of fact does know why, but the natives in their blithe wisdom infer that the lack of one means a lack of quality and in con- sequence a loss of rank. Repairment of this oversight on the part of Providence, however, is effected by a liberal substitu- | tion of ink and an ingenious employment of a tattooer while the unhaired-lipped fe- male is in her teens. The admiring voice of M. Klabukowski is lifted in solemn declaration that the skill wherewith this tattooing is made to look like real hair is marvelous, The traveler goes on to narrate that the woman among the Ainos is an inferior being. All heavy work, including that of the field, is reserved for her. In child- hood, petween 8 and 10, her countenance possesses “'a certain charm.” After that time the burden of life becomes of such a nature that in a measure it unsexes what should be the fair sex. Once married the mustached woman is more than ever the slave of the bearded man. She has not even the rizht to pray. grimaces, cannot ignore the fact that his sullen mustached creature, without honor, religion or morality, will scruple at no evil deed that she may do to harm him if be goes too far in his cruelty. She may, for example, to quote Mr. Klab (etc.), “serve him in the guiseof venison several pieces of dead bodies, or burn his amulets,” to say nothing ot knocking out his brains with a tent pole. The explorer crossed overland to Sap- poro, the seat of governmenti of Yesso. “This country,” he declares, “‘resembles, with 1%s beautiful pasturages, the fields in Normandy, Denmark or Scotiand. Sap- poro isa city admirably situated upon a vast platean. Its plan resembles that of American cities, with its straight lines and vast boulevards, but the resemblance stops A" BEEEE: (©ESYESS@© [From a photograph.} Yet she possesses one means of defense which is special to herself. She can, when she is angered, transform her countenance into what Mr. Klabukowski describes as “a horrible mask, put on with an inimitable talent.”” there. Designed to receive 500,000 inhab- itants, it has but 22,000, of which 10,500 are women. The number of habitable houses is 5000. Scattered upon this numerous plan, it presents the aspect of a city And her hus- | finished before it was well commenced, band, taking his cue from these fearful | *The Government understands the im- portance of Sapporo from the double point of view of politics and economics. It has created a school of agriculture, hospitals, penitentiaries, and a palace for the Mi- kado, which he bas never visited. *‘The cause of all this is the invincible repugnance of the Japanese to the cold climate. *It is a matter for astonishment that Northern Japan and its mustached women are so little known by us, and that it is forsaken by the Japanese themselves. In my journey northward I noted with sur- prise the state of abandonment more aud more complete of a rich and fertile soil. The Japanese are a southern people. “The north suffers from rigorous win ters which the wooden houses, all of simi- lar type, cannot give sufficient protection against. The attire of ihe inhabitants.is suitable only for a sunny climate and for extremes only of heat and humidity.” M. Klab (etc.) is impressed by the fact that, ‘‘though the Japs are masters by right of consent of a soil of great richness, they remain by preference in the southern zone, and when forced to live in the north are not willing to change in order to meet the extremes of the latitude. They for- sake the northern part of the great island of Nippon, the isle of Yesso, which is as beautiful and fertile as Ireland, without having its unsupportable humidit; “itis for these reasons that the city of Aoomori in the extreme north of theis- land of Nippon, which, from its geograph- cal position, its ciimate and its traffic, has come to be a considerable city, is only a fishing borough of 75,000 souls, finding there in the heart of summer, nightand day, a delicious temperature.” The narrator of this romantic story pro- fesses to discern in Aoomori “the sani. tarium of the future for Europeans that the hot season drives from Tokio, from Yokohama and from Shanghai; also for the convalescents that French Indo- China sends annually to Japan. “While all authorities agree thatthe Ainos, as stated, are the aboriginal inhab- itants of the islands which now constis tute the empire of Japan, there is much doubt as to just where they themselves came from. The generally accepted the- ory, however, is that they are descendants of the inhabitants of the country now known as Russia, aithough their advent to the now Japanese islands took place before the beginning of tbe Christian era. Once they were great and powerful, even though the name they bear, Ainos, signi- fies ‘dogs.’ To-day they are a fast-fading nation, whose present bope of permanent remembrance lies in the fact that their women wear mustaches.”” And the advent of the eircus-curio col- lector has not yet occurred in the island of Yesso to raise the women of the Ainos to the dignity of being sought after for their looks. C. D. SHE WAS “THE LITTLE CRYING GIRL. See that demure little woman doing. | st erole of ‘Sister Kate’? asked the Oid zoer of the Young Beginner as they stood in the foyer of a local theater ate! sp sh na peered through the curtains while the | body got to thinking of her as re. | They spoke of second act of ‘The Charity Ball’ was in | ch progress. | Yes,’ responded the Young Beginner | “Do you remember the little girl with | the lonz, unbouna hsir, who cried at the professor’s whiskers in John Drew’s ‘The Squire of Dames’ last season? and who gave way to such childish mirth—such screams of laughter—when he avpeared | | before her all shaven and shorn?” *To be sure [ do,"” affirmed the younger | man, nodding his head and smiling in | reminiscent enjoyment. “But what of‘ **Well in that little girl of thirteen and this little woman of nineteen you behold the same identical person.” “No!” marveled the other, “is that o ( /4 aight?” “Stright as a rule,”” declared the first eaker. *“Inthatrole of the little girl e made a rattling good hit and every- v the ild she seemed to be. “ | her as the ‘little girl who cried at the whickers.” A year has transformed tha: baby in short dresces into this mature, | long-gowned bit of gravity that we see reflected the Young Beginner, | assuming a judicial air, “to an actor a | change from one company to another—a transition from one environment to an- | other—is like a step into & new world and a new existence.” “Yes—that lends to our little friend the element of iransformation in appearance and age,” asserted the Old Theater-goer. odé tousisthe circumstance that,after dis- appearing from here a year ago ana getting lost from cur ken completely, she sud- denly turns up by the merest chance this year without the faintest reminder that she was the little one we got so fond of last season. Of course we were told that Gladys Wallis had joined Mr. Frawley's “But the thing that makes it particularly | company, butsomehow it never occurred to us to associate the name of the actress with the little character which lived in our fancy from a year ago.” ‘‘She was the same Gladys Wallis then that she is now, I suppose,’” observed the Young Beginner. “Yes—off the stage. But whay struck me 80 pleasantly was the experience of finding the little ‘crying girl’ again after I thought she was lost to us. It is interest- ing to look at her in these totally differ- ent roles this season and reflect that she is the same person who created the fam- ous little character in ‘The Squire of Dames.” And the fact that John Drew and his company are playing at the same moment right here in this city within a stone’s throw of the little crying girl,’ acds to the interest.” The Young Beginner permitted the en- suing silence to o h:s assenting for him, and refrained from speech while the comedy scene between Kate Van Buren and her lover went on. After an interval of this sort the Old Theater-goer, who loves the sound of his own voice better than that of any one’s else, volunteered the information that the “!little crying girl” had been on the stage for more than twelve years, “Yes,” he went on, “I saw her twelve years ago up in Canada, when she was a child in reality and wore short dresses off ! the stage as well as on. She went with Crane for quitea while and finally was sent ifor by Daly. But she preferred to accept a proposition from another quarter to ¢o on a starring tour. She was a star for two years.” “W at! a mere child like that?” de- manded the Young Beginner, with the contempt for youth which only youth car feel. “Yes, indeed—a child like that. And at the conclusion of her career asa star she joined Frohman's legions in New York. Up tolast spring she played in John Drew's company anc made her hit as the ‘little crying girh’ Another and a preceding success of bers was scored in ‘The Senator’ in New York.” “And from Drew your ‘airy fairy’ hero- ine went to Frawley?’ concluded the sympathetic Young Beginner, basking warmly in the light of the Old Theater. goer's flattering at.ention. “As you see,’”’ supplem ented the other. And then, as the curtain went down and ke and the Young Beginner strolled out- side, he was heard to ask that favored youth what he would have. C. D. LATEST FACTS ABOUT THE MALARIA MICROBE Science has at last caught and im'] prisoned on glass slides, for the benefit of | humanity, the germ of malaria. For |1t The photographs which are herewith reproduced show this little horror just as looks when it enters the sysiem and many years medical men have labored in | carry the reader’s eye through the various vain to isolate this tiny cause of human | misery. t point, and yet productive amount of anguish, it has eluded, up to a | of stages of develop ment ‘olorless, finer than a needle’'s | point is reached. until the final It 1s impossible to over- of a vast| estimate the importance of the discovery the malarial organism, a discovery short time since, the most delicate and | which ranks second only in modern medi- vigorous experiments which sayant< cou d | cal achievement to the finding by Pro- plan out. Now, however, | captured, and through ithe aid of Dr. Pat- | tion. ck Manson, physician of the Seamen’s it has been | fessor Koch of the bacillus of consump- It is impossible to doubt the reia- tionship of the germ of mularia photo- H pital and lecturer at St. Gecrge’s and | graphed to the discase, for experimental | Charing Cross hospitsls, in London, has | inoculation of human beings with blood | ben stained so that the lens of the camera | known to contain the parasite has invari- mi<ht faithfully pict ably been followed by symploms in the one inoculated corresponding to the symp- toms of the person from whom the in- fected blood was taken. | Experiment has also demonstrated that the one great destroyer of this malaria parasite is quinine. To this extent has the theory of modern medicine been proved correct. But Dr. Manson shows that there has been woeful ignorance of the proper method of administering the medicine, and that we have in a measure been dosing ourseives at random. Itisa fact that many physicians nave scoffed the idea of quinin- being the best remedy for malaria. Dr. Manson’s experiments, however, seem (0 prova that the hitherto accepted belief of these gentlemen isin- correct. It has been decided that each clinical type of the disease, the tertian, the quartan and the estivo-autumnal, de- pends npon a particular species. It will be observed that in some of the flagellated bodies (figs. 7 and 8) the cen- tral mass of the organism is of consider- able bulk—iarger, apparently, than the crescent bodies from which they origi- nated. In contemplating in fresh prepa- rations tire evolution of the living crescent- derived sphere into the flazellated body one someiimes fancies that one can see toese flagella like those of an octopus, wriggling about 1nside the limiting mem- brane of the parasite. Heretofore this has been oniy a fancy, for the unsfained liv. Enlarged Photographs of the Malaria Parasite Showing It as It Enters the System and Its Successive States of Development. A DISTRESSING SOCIAL CONDITION Of the many distressing social condi- | relatives in China, and if he decides to A wife is a fitting companion. They seem tions existing among the Chinese element | return to his native iand she is just as in Sau Krancisco there is none more de- plorable than the intermarriage of the Mongo! race with the Caucasians. And, to say that such marriages exist to a sur- THERE ARE NINE OF THESE prising degree is no exaggeration, for twenty would barely cover the actumal number of cases in this City. This num- ber, to be sure, seems small when com- pared with the Chinese population of San Francisco, but it is larece when-its signifi- cance is taken into consideration, and what isstill worse statistics show an in- creasing tendency in this direction. The one great difficulty that meets this outcast wife lies in the death of her hus- band or in his departure for China. In | case of the former she is unprovided for— his property going to the wife or other | destitute, unless she pronoses to accom- pany him. And what then? There are three cases of the twenty I have referred to which are exceptions to CASES IN SAN FRANCISCO. the general rule. The men are Christians, having, of course, no other wives in China, and the women belonged to the better classes of American society. One of these marriages is particularly noteworthy, be- ing that of Walter N. Fong, a graduate of the University of the Pacific and also of Stanford University, to a young lady student at the latter university. This couple are legally married, for the license was secured and the ceremony performed in Denver, where there 2re no prohibitory laws in regard to the matter. Mr. Fong is a bright, intelligent gentleman and his 10 be very happy, and it is to be hoped that years will not alter their harmonious relations. Now right here lias the great danger in Americanizing the Chinese men. Where can they find women of their own nation- ality who are congenial companions? Of all women, as a rule, the Chinese are the most silly and inane. How could an edu- cated man, a graduate from one of our universities, tolerate one of these? Whnere shall he find a life comrade of an intelli- gence equal to his own? A Chinese and a Russian! Could there be a more incongruous combination? These, indeed, are the nationalities of a man and his bride who recently arrived from Los Angeles. He is a watchmaker by trade and a Christian by faith, who has settied on the Washington -street hill, above Stockton, and no wife could have a more devoted husband than she of the yellow hair and florid complexion. And the Chinaman who took the lady of marked contrast for a wife has alsoa white boy for a son, for his wife was a widow with a child 10 yearsof age. These veople have not been long married, so who can tell what will be the result of such a union? A Danish girl of 18—bright, pretty, at« tractive, vivacious—was employed as housemaid in a family on Van Ness avenue where there was a Chinese cook. She spoke broken English, and had never seen any men of her own nationaiity or sta- tion. The Chinaman was kind to her, and before lonz they had fallen in love with each other. The result was that they en- tered into a contract marriage and estab~ lished a little home. The minister of the mission called upon the couple in their home, for the China- man was a faithful Christian, and found the happy little wife, so young and pretty, in dainty house gown, arranging house- hold matters. She always went to vrayer- meetings with her husband and prayed fervently upon her bended knees. To the minister's utter astonishment she went to him one day and burst into sobs. He asked her the cause of her trouble, and she said, broken-heartedly, “The priest has been scolding me, for ha says that I am not married at all.” Then the husband sought the minister with tales of his wife’s unhappiness and appeals for advice. He found that their baby could not receive baptism, and so, to secure that and also a legal union, he began to study the catechism. It was not long before they were married by the priest. The little Danish wife is happy now, and they live contentedly on a back street above Chinatown. The cases of white men marrying Chi- nese women are far more rare than the others that I have enumerated. In China there are several instances of foot-bouud womer, cultured and accomplished, who have become the wives of Americans or Europeans. L.EP ing specimen is so transparent that one could never be sure. Itis now evident that the fancy is well founded. Every crescent-shaped malarial parasite in the course of evolution becomes If You Have Malaria Think of Millions this ferocious creature, rushing through the blood, attacking with its whirling arms the red blood corpuscle and only too often destroying it. The anemia of malaria is well known— the pallid face and strengthless body con« sequent upon the blood deprived of its red corpuscles, Itis fortunate indeed for the human being thus attacked that there is s drug whidh causes the death of the para« site—quinine. of These Whirling Around in Your Circulation.