JAPANESE CUSTOMS.
In Japan a girl -at the age of nine wears her hair tied in a red scarf bound around the back of her head. The forehead is set bare, with the exception of a couple of locks, one on each side. When she is of marriageable age she combs her hair forward, and makes it up into tho shape of a fail or butterfly, and at the saino time decorates it with silver cord and balls of varied colors. This means everything, and is fully understood by the young men of Japan. A widow wlio wishes for a second husband puts a tortoiseshell pin horizontally at -tho back of her head, and twists her hair around it; while an inconsolable, widow cuts her hair short and goes in for adornments of any sort. These last are rare. By these simple means confusion is avoided. A glance round a ballroom suffices to -tell the age and status of every woman in the place.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2141, 17 March 1908, Page 1
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