JAPANESE EYES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 268, 20 April 1917, Page 1 (Supplement)

JAPANESE EYES.

You tklnk that it is impossible *o mistake a Jap on account of his almond eyes peculiar to the yellow race. Do not be so sure, for it is quite likely you ara wrong. Of rei-ent years a curious fad has taken root an Japan. This is nothing mcro than the alteration, by the surgeon's knife, of the shape of the eye, so that I'.n future tho Japanese will not be distinguished as one of the " almondeyed"' races. Tho operation is said to bo simplo and quito painless. Tho surgeon takes a scalpel in his right hand and ,stretching the sb'n with tho forefinger of his left hand, makes an incision on tho outer point of tho eyelids in a straight lino for tho barest part of an inch. The lashes are then drawn into shape and held firmly by a p ece of chenrcally-prepared stick-ing-plaster. Tho wound needs no further dressing, and the subject of the Emperor of the Flowery Kingdom goes on about his business as if nothing had happened. In a few days it is entirely healed, when the surgeon is visited and requested to remove the plaster, and with tho plaster comes the fee. Tho Japs say that their Eastern, not to say Mongolian, appearano Vs a disadvantage to them in their commercial and other relations with Western races. Whether this is so or not, it is a positive fact that some of the hghest officials Hn Chrysanthemum Land hare fallen in with the popular fancy, and European medical men nut there are making pots of money by the mo of their ecalpe's. One authority slates that tho Mikado himself has had his ov's " Westernised."