The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1899, Page 21

T R OESEE N JBAN FRANLISED e / BIRL wHo WiLL Livis =a . . &. \\ Yie\ Y4 bfifl;‘f\sfik = IS NI 999, fL S AGAZINE ZECTION S/ e~ D 4===%%;=! AT THE PALALE OF THE MAVKAIILY cese dalliance. COURT LIEE IN : JRPAN. me 108 FRANK. L. COOMBS, > RT life Jag ’:,;, ‘,"u.\ “V.W\-Hvl“”‘ el (110 (1) L S EH i t Ih N2zttt Il i : ETW Zt )///,'/1 DAROCHESS YOSHIKAWA RINE NEE KATHER N T IN JaPANESE COSTUME icult feat. to llve up to them a harder are never nermitted to meet the E family cannot occ the same position; tasx n American girl, Gentlemen of the proper ofticial they have no place in the court life of i 3 Yoshikawa can win the on are pre: Titan ? friendship of Baroness Sa ya she will Mr. and A st Mrs. Coombs, from her official visits at the palace good idea of what palace e who can help her over the stony p s in court etiquette. The baroness is an English lady and the wife kind to the California girl, Baroness Yo- Yoshi- of Baron Sannomiya, court chamberlain. shikawa, who will live in the imperial i o She has a fluence at court palace. The Empress understands a lit- i e and 1s nberless forms tle Englich, but never speaks it, prefer- e e to use her Interpreters. She is very When I was presented to her 3 i-minded and philanthropic, and js had previously been told that I v ially interested In the intellectyal the court ladies not in their picturesque ncement of the Japanese women, Ximonos but in European gowns a Empress took a personal Interest jn ‘‘However, I was not prepared for the g, but he gets the Japanese women's exhibition at the \out-of-date gowns of the court ladies. The nese court life, the World's Fair in Chicago. She is always Empress herself was in a gorgeous Paris- rous in the world. affable and charming to the ladies of the !an robe six months behind the fashions. "se invest their Emperor with foreign legations A number of her ladles wore gowns im- divinity, and his life of secluded pomp The wife is a member of the official ported twelve years ago, when the edict gives him an additional halo. Mr. Coombs famlly, and as such Mrs. Coombs was was first published making European e legation that There are a thousand and one thorns— eritten & vivid pen plcture of his presented to the Empress. No other lady clothes imperative for official days. Our shikawa. The ryles, regulations and restrictions that presentation to the Emperor of Japan in can be presented. In case the Minister is clothes sit oddly on the Japanese women; r, owing to his must be obeyed. To learn them Is a dif- his capacity as American Minister. Ladles single the sister or other member of the they carry them with the pitty-pat of the less he be of officlal rank, Japan, hear the gels observe the embroidered trimmings, with look upon him as the ai the imperial crest, the sixteen-petaled power and visit all the ar chrysanthemum, the use of which is for- content upon the M! souree of has of dis- elves.