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Show Anglicizing Japan. ' . A Japaneso Minister, now in his own country, has Just taken decisive measures to root the national customs, tho national social ceremonies out of his own household. house-hold. Ho has engaged an English lady, not as governess, but entirely to sot tho example of English manners to his children. child-ren. English manners are In truth so exceedingly ex-ceedingly vaguo and negative that no written code could possibly give an idea of them. Nothing but tho very genius of mimicry could possibly grasp them. Thorefore, tho sons and daughters sit around and watch tho Englishwoman. Her employer has built her an EugllBh house no English that It reproduces tho houso representing our domestic architecture at the last Paris International. Tho young students walk In duly with their- dusty boots and sit on chairs. Whoovcr wishes to hear tho courtesies of Japaneso speech 'Your honorable dinner Is sorved, "Your honorable hot water Is ready" should make haste. London Dolly Chronicle. |