MANCHURIAN LADIES AND THEIR FLOWER-DECKED HEADGEAR

Those of Manchuria's women who enjoy the more leisured walks of life have a certain daintiness of mien and charm of habiliment, especially in the matter of hats. But they are not free from the Chinese persuasion that small feet are the essential adjunct of true beauty, and these ladies have squeezed their toes into quaint and delicate contrivances that cover unpleasing deformity.