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Lv99_BixNood
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The first thing that impressed me on landing was
that there were no loafers, and that all the small, ugly,
kindly-looking, shrivelled, bandy-legged, round-shouldered,
concave-chested, poor-looking beings in the streets
had some affairs of their own to mind.
Fanny Parkes, aged
six, said, ‘‘Papa, how very funny all those ugly men look!”
and if she had been aged sixty she could not have made a
more apt remark. The yellow, featureless faces, all alike,
the bullet-shaped craniums, the coarse cropped hair bristling up from the head, the flat chests, round shoulders,
and lean, ill-shaped legs, were exhibited in all their ugliness in western dress, for the first, and I hope for the last
time.
The Japanese look most diminutive in European
dress. Each garment is a misfit, and exaggerates the
miserable physique and the national defects of concave
chests and bow legs. The lack of “complexion” and of hair
upon the face makes it nearly impossible to judge of the
ages of men. I supposed that all the railroad officials
were striplings of 17 or 18, but they are men from 25 to
40 years old.
It never began for ricecels