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A NATURALIST ON THE " CHALLENGER." 



young children. It is quite common to see children on festive 

 occasions, when elaborately dressed by their parents, further 



FACE OF JAPANESE ACTOR. 



(To show the mode of painting the face. From a Japanese Theatrical Picture-book.) 



adorned with one or two transverse narrow streaks of bright red 

 paint, leading outwards from the outer corners of their eyes, or 

 placed near that position. 



Such a form of painting possibly existed in ancient times in 

 China. When a man of distinction was buried in China in 

 former times, a certain number of servants were buried with 

 him. Now, figures made of pasteboard and paper, about 3 feet 

 or so high, are burnt at the funeral service in small furnaces 

 provided for the purpose in the temples, together with cart- 

 loads of similar pasteboard gifts, which are thus sent by the 

 survivors for the use of the dead in the next world. Earthenware 

 figures were similarly buried with great men in old times in 

 Japan. 



The pasteboard heads of these funeral servants and retainers 

 are painted with streaks, some of which are put on in almost 

 exactly the same style at the angles of the eyes as those of modern 



