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Slippers crippled HONOLULU (AP) In a locked case in Miller Hall at the University of Hawaii are several teacup-size slippers, covered with infinitely small embroidery stitches. In them is the story of more than a thousand years of the intentional crippling of young daughters of the aristocracy and the eventual loss of sight of the women who did the "forbidden stitch' embroidery, finally outlawed because it damaged the eyesight. Tiny shippers like these were worn on the bound feet of Chinese women for hundreds of generations, deforming their feet into what was called "the golden lotus." Three pairs are part of the Asian Costume Collection at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources. Most of the collection is in an air-conditioned basement vault. A few pieces are displayed in hallway cases.

"We have to keep the collection in storage because we have no place to exhibit it," says Mary Ellen Des Jarlais, a professor and curator of the collection. "We bring samples into class for students' research purposes, but handling causes deterioration of the fragile fabrics." Among the treasures assembled is a tiny rose and green slipper, 7.5 centimetres long. "It was probably put on when the girl was about 6," Des Jarlais said. "After that, the bones could no longer be bent into what they called the 'golden with four toes clamped under the big toe and the arch of the foot." Foot binding is usually dated back to the court of Emperor Li Yu of the late Tang dynasty, A.D. 900.

He insisted that his court daneers bind their feet into an arch so that they would walk on tiptoe with a seductive sway Binding of feet was outlawed by the Manchus during the 18th century. Despite the crippling and the pain, the custom survived through the first years of the Communist regime that began in 1949. "You still see old women in Peking and Shanghai limping on their tiny, crippled feet," THE ADVOCATE, Wednesday, October 26, 1983 5E Japanese readers lap up comic books TOKYO (Reuter) Bely- Apart from robot advening their reputation as a nation tures, the themes of romance, of serious workaholics, the sport, science fiction, sex and Japanese are probably the history vie for the attention of world's most voracious readers comics readers in a highly comof comics. petitive market where a catchy Comics, or "manga" in Japa- story line can run for years. nese, cater to all ages and have A serial centred on the court made fortunes for some of of Marie Antoinette and the their creators.

French Revolution, created by Of the more than four billion Riyoko Ikeda, who dropped out books and magazines pub- of college after studying philished in Japan each year, losophy, has attracted a huge more than a quarter are readership among women of comics, with annual sales top- all ages. ping a billion dollars. Though readers' tastes tend Comics serials are published to cross both age and sex lines, in weekly and biweekly maga- comics aimed specifically at zines, some the size of tele- adult male readers often cause phone books, with the more raised eyebrows among the successful later compiled into uninitiated for their eroticism paperback and hardback vol- and graphic depictions of sexumes. ual and other violence. One of the more enduring Osamu Tezuka, a dentist by strips, Doraemon, detailing the training who began his career adventures of an atomic-pow- as a comics artist after The ered robot cat, first began seri- Second World War and is conalization in 1970 and has since sidered the doyen of the craft been reproduced in 26 paper- in Japan, laments the trend toback volumes which have sold ward violence in these comics more than 50 million copies.

and says artists should exerAkira Toriyama, the 27-year- cise more self-control. old creator of a robot-maker "I'm always amazed when I called Dr. Slump whose an- meet the artists because they droid protege Arare-chan be- are always very subdued and came the central character of a quiet," he said. "Many of the successful TV cartoon series, young artists are repressed, earned $2.4 million in royalties and drawing is a release for in 1981. their fantasies." Plugged sink? Treed cat? Call the convenience man TOKYO (AP) Sex and murder aside, Katsuyoshi Ukon says he will do just about anything if the price is right.

Mr Ukon 15 Japan's premier henriya." literally meaning convenience man," an ancient occupation which has caught the fancy of this affluent urban society. The demands on his talents vary from the mundane to the absurd. In addition to such tasks as unplugging sinks and painting walls. he is also called upon to rescue treed cats, play catch with sonless company presidents and accompany elderly people on long trips to visit ancestral graves. Mr.

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