JAPANESE WOMEN AND THEIR SIGNS.
In Japan the women arrange their hair in a manner so ingenious that a person can tell at once whether any woman whom he sees is a maiden who desires to get married, or a widow who is inconsolable, or one who is willing to be consoled if the proper suitor presents himself. Young girls arrange the hair in front in the form of a fan or butterfly, and adorn it with silver or coloured ornaments; widows who are looking for second husbands fasten the hair at the back of the head by means of tortoiseshell pins, and widows who are resolved to remain for ever faithful to their departed spouses cut the hair short, .and. wear no ornaments ia itg, "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14787, 16 September 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)
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126JAPANESE WOMEN AND THEIR SIGNS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 14787, 16 September 1911, Page 6 (Supplement)
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