| Show I 1 THOSE carious CURIOUS JAPS their ideas about dignitaries whose ric pictures tures are on costage stamps private letters from moto kioto bear proof that the japanese have brive their own na i a of doing things they recently had neiss new issue ue of postage stamps w which hichi lc portraits port of the the princes who w ho ake I 1 in the recent war v ar stamps a of f tv two 0 arof five sen sea were to be issued lu in th tb United States one portrait would lax ha been on the two sen stamp and ore OEO r c t the he five sen stamp but in japan it w wr thought thu glit that this would le be leg ing against the memory of the one pictured on oil the this is w why by philatelists find that then a are re two new two sen and ono new civi sen stamps each denomination baa one kind in memory of each prince ev eu c even ten this careful arrangement jd dd rr prevent a new trouble some c serva tire vc japanese are conte contending ding 11 it borders on disrespect to the imparl ironi n family to pollute iol lute their pictures vit t saliva and then to bl blotch etc otc h them with in binl L in the process of cancell cancellation aaion one man has declared in the papers that he be shall decline to receive any ma I 1 ma matter ter bearing these stamps some postmasters have hav e requested that ahry L allowed to put the canceling mark on 1 1 on t the he edge of the stamp so a as to avo defiling the princely faces to ol al fashioned fashion 0 japanese it is specially di pleasing to see foreigners putting portraits representing men of divine ia d scent into their mouths and autti 0 them on the envelopes with as much ii difference as we employ with the fa face nce of washington franklin and grant ou our stamps some japanese if they jhc thc i vs the stamps at all must reverently E 11 them to their head carefully wet tl e glue with pure water and then utter i prayer as they reverently attach them to the envelopes did it ever occur to an american that it was discrimination to place a pr trait on a lower denomination stamp if this matter was ever discussed it w wa I 1 probably agreed that the greater hono hanoi V went with the cheaper stamps which are in wider and more general use A for attaching any respect to them do I 1 you know without looking whose pictures are on an oar various stamps doston journal |
