Although three years have ps since the great earthquake and fire which razed Yokohama to, the ground and took toll of the! lives of many foreign residents! of the port of Tokyo, nothing has. hitherto been done to. per petuate their memory. All th foreigners who lost—their have not been accounted for and a project is now definitely on foot, to erect a monument to the Known and Unknown Foreign Dead to! whom Death came, not with "sunset touch." but with "'sudden, smiting blow."
A grani cenotaph has been, decided on to perpetuate their memory and will be erected in the centre of the Yokohama General Cemetery. The laudable plan of remembering those wip -have gone before was first proposed by the "Japan Times," an Englisi language daily of Tokyo, and the plan received the warm commendajon of the General Committee of the Yokohama Cemetery. If there be funds remaining after "the Cenotaph has been erected, this extra money is to be devoted "to remodelling the Cemetery pathways, re-building the embankments which toppled over at the time of the quake and in restoring to Goil's Acre in Yokohama an of orderliness and_cleanli has been sadly lacking since the disaster.
In order that as big a sum as possible may be collected, it is further proposed to honour also the pioneers of Yokohama who, with their Japanese colleagues, helped to develop this city. from 'a pristine land primitive fishing village to the Principal port of the Japanese Empire, The latter move is a diplomatic one, for it cannot but enlist the Japanese too in giving this noble scheme warm support, Seeks New Costume There may soon come to Shanghai, and perhaps to points further East, a petite and chic mademoiselle from the Philippine Islands who is fon a quest to seek a now costume for Filipino ladies, She is Miss Asuncion Chanco and is at present in Japan, Miss chanco told your correspondent that foreign clothes and Paris style Jas she quaintly put it—have caught on "like wildfire" in the Philippines, but that she bel to be extremely unsuitable the women of that land and dim Roman Catholic priests, she said, deeming the styles of Europe and America to be immodest, tried their best to dissuade Filipino ladies from adopting them. They even went 80 far as to refuse the Holy Communion to those who were dressed in the latest, modern style Dut all to no avail, Tt was, after wards agreed that people could not be successfully legist
be devised that would morality hing obs Place of the present styles, and so Miss Chanco left for other lands A Happy Mean Desired The kimono, she thinks, is all ight as a haute garment, but she thinks it too unwieldy " for the Tropics. Further, she added, women other than Japanese who wear kimono would be laughed at They would look like a village reproduction of Gilbert and Sullivan declared. has been gqrried away by the so-called Egyptian or New York vor does not feel happy unless is thus garbed. It is true that foreign modern gat is more economical than is our own, but "in matters like these economy should not be the only criterion Sleeveless dresses, with tight odices, are not only far from attractive, but do not suit the more matronly women of my land."
She thinks a happy mean could, "The sleeves of the panese kimono, for instance, siderably abbreviated," she said, is particularly suitéd'to us, How-fever, I cannot yet say what my. final idea will be. The Chinese Shanghai_ costume for women strikes me as being very sane and healthy. If we Eastern women must change our costume, let us try and devise something essentially Eastern, taken "from various Eastern instead of swallowing Occidental styles whether these suit us or not."
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