A GREAT CHINESE LADY.
Marchioness Li, wife of Li Hung Chang, ex-Prcinier of China, is iiftyhve and looks thirty-five, being still remarkably beautiful with large handsome eyes, and high aristocratic cheek bones. Sho is ono of tho most learned women in China, but this means little. Her husband is fabulously rich, and sho spends absolutely what sho likes, and (nioro woudeif al) she keeps accurate accounts of her expenditure. At the vice-regal home near the banks of the lVi-ilo sho lives in gorgeous state, surrounded by song birds, peacocks, aquaria, pottery, gems, botanical collections, and 1000 attendants and sorvants. She has 2000 coats, 1200 pairs of "trouserottes," and .500 fur robes. Her feet arc so sma'l that she is unable to walk moro than a few steps, but twice a day sho bathes in oil of orango and acacia blooms, and she takes tho air in a ooo. l; .o sedan. She dresses her hair in 50 ways, the favorito coiffure being in tho shape of a griiliu.
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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 123, Issue 123, 17 April 1895, Page 3
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168A GREAT CHINESE LADY. Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 123, Issue 123, 17 April 1895, Page 3
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