Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

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the other woman const&ly rubbed with her bare hands. The marcelle
was not good. A Jap woman used the irons while a m hea$ed them;' -
alternately. Shampoo cost one yen, and the mrcelle-one yen.!'
Q. That ' s a beautif'ul desckiption. That l s wondemf'ul.
A. Yes. I've forgotten a lot of it.
Q. How did you look when you were done?
A. m, I was looking all curled up. I never did so well in marcelk. I
had a little natural wave. It was not much, but when I w p a small jChild,
rqy hair would curl if they wet it and put it around their finger. Pen it
would dry and stay that way for quite a while. Then as I p w up, af course,
it was braided.
At one tim that's far in the future f'mm childhood, I lived at the
Stevens Hotel in Chicago. I had my hair done by the operntor in the hotel.
The Skevens Hotel just had everything; it was just like a, city. You could
get your railroad tickets, your a%ql& tickets, you co$d put all your
valuables in a safe and they took care of it, but you better not lose your
key because there wasn't any mre. And then they had wha$ they called som
kind of a barber corn, and he cut your hair so--cut litt* lines it it. By
this tk hair was not curly, but it would kind of wave. He put a little
narrow line like that in rr~y hair every so onen to make a, wave, and >it worked,
so I had that for a long time. Well, anyhow, my hair's changed! For a
long th I had short hair in New York, and I parted3t @re and then I'd
squeeze it up here, and then I could swing it mund hem and have a wave
back there. If d press it with n-@ hands. I was wearing hair that ww
when I cam back to Springfield, twenty years or mare agq, twenty-three
years. So shall we go on now? Now my hair1s washed.
"1 had photopaphs taken at a Jap studio. It was dana on the spur of
the mmnt. Pictures cost on@ twenty yen a dozen which is only half that
I paid in Springfield for nly vexy unsatisfactory ones. 2 called upon General
and Mrs. Cabanoff, and dawter, Bessie, at the OrientaE Hotel,'' They were
on our boat, on our Nippon bkru. "They were very graciow and lovely. They
were quite anxious to have me take dinner with them, and
to know what I had read in the papers. Mrs. Chabanoff
believing that all the white people should stand
ri,n qubtation marks. llThe RussianSido not hold
Of course, they had the war in 1904. RemrrJ3er
I don ' t think you were born then. (ehWles)
"In the afternoon re all went* to Tamachhi.to a tea at thq beaatifulthome df
Mr. Asano, the mer and president of the Toyo Kisha W$ha Steamh
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pany. Nearly all the Nippon Maru passengers were there. We were s own wonderful
errbroidered tapestry, wood carving and Japanese mlics of th gods.
'We were seated in an upper room along a long table. MF, Asanots ughter,
a beautiful wornan, and ganddat.u@ter served us with fmcg little c es more
like candies and bright green tea in a little bowl. Thiq tea was ry bitter.
In another long hall which was curiously fwnfshed with brican furniture,
we were semd wtih small smWches, small soft cakes, tea and an opaque
jelly-like substance made Fn a long cylinder, wrapped In palm leave6