CHINESE BEAUTY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 51, 27 January 1933, Page 4

CHINESE BEAUTY.

PRINCESS WHO GOLFS. DAINTY EAST MEETS WEST. A Chinese princess in a superbly hand-embroidered robe, under a long grey squirrel coat, no hat on black bobbed head, stood one day in midDecember on the mist-soaked deck of the Japanese liner Terukuni Maru. Her silken slippers afforded no protection against the penetrating English wetness. This medley in fashion is consistent with tlie whole of her personality and training, for in “Mrs Cheng,” sister of the Regent of Manchuria and exEmperor of China, East meets West in a tangled but harmonious pattern. She and her brothers are the last of the Ch’ing dynasty, the rulers of China for many centuries, and following the tradition for beauty among the princesses, her looks are unusually striking. She has their white skin, their pronounced slant eyes, slender eyebrows and unbound feet. She was laughing and chattering excitedly, for this is the first travelling she has done. As her husband explained, however, her English is so meagre that shyness reduces it to a tentative “Yes.” “We are going to be ip England foi three years,” he said, “as I intend to study at Oxford or Cambridge. Sir Reginald Johnston (with whom they are staying, and who was tutor to her brother when he was Emperor) will decide. “My wife will, of course, have u private tutor, but she will live in the same university town. She will study nil manner of Westei'u subjects, science and mathematics. “She is a very good tennis player, horsewoman and golfer, so we shall have a wonderful time playing together here in England.” Wherever Mrs Cheng goes, so does her maid (at a respectful distance), looking as though she had stepped down from a Chinese print, in the bright blue cotton robe of her class.