Manchu Lad}' and Her Son 

 The long Manchu gown reaching to the feet and the short overjacket make that costume the 

 most dignified and becoming of any in China. The broad hairpin, wound with strands of satin- 

 smooth black hair and finished with great bunches of flowers, is a most becoming headdress, and 

 when covered with jewels and hung with twelve inch tassels of pearls, as for the imperial prin- 

 cesses, the result is more splendid than that of any tiara, coronet, or crown 



