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Volume 3 185 |
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MANCHURIAN LADIES AND THEIR FLOWER-DECKED HEADGEAR |
ROBED IN THE RAIMENT OF AUTHORITY |
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| Those of Manchuria's women who enjoy the more leisured walks of life have a certain daintiness of mien and charm of habiliment, especially in the matter of hats. But they are not free from the Chinese persuasion that small feet are the essential adjunct of true beauty, and these ladies have squeezed their toes into quaint and delicate contrivances that cover unpleasing deformity | In the East, power usually manifests itself in the outward seeming, and the Hungus make no exception to this rule. Here is a functionary who fulfils roughly the duties of aide-de-camp to a bandit chief |