CHINESE BEAUTY

Taranaki Daily News, 27 January 1933, Page 3

CHINESE BEAUTY

PRINCESS WHO GOLFS. DAINTY EAST MEETS WEST. A Chinese princess in a superbly handembroidered robe, under a long, grey squirrel coat, no hat on black bobbed head, stood one day in mid-December 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 the whole of her personality and training, for. in “Mrs. Cheng,” sister of the Regent of Manchuria and ex-Em-peror 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 ha? 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 in England for three years,” .he said,, “as I intend to study,at Oxford or Cambridge. Sir Reginald!Johnston (witli whom they are staying, and who was tutor to her brother when he was emperor) will decide. “My wife will, of course, have a private tutor, but she will live in the same upjversiV town. . She will study all manner of Western subjects, science, and mathematics. ' “She is a very good tennis player, horse-woriian and golfer, so we shall havea wonderful tifne playing together here in England.” Whenever Mrs. Cheng goes, so does hey 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.