| Show t f S THE TIlE S JAPANESE An Englishman with a Japanese wife reached N New w York the other day and the interviews of 5 both are arc interesting The gentleman's gentleman name is K Kendall He lIe does not like the alliance between his native ve country and Japan although h he has has made l fau J alliance with a Japanese woman 11 y Mrs Ir had never been out of Japan before be- be Jf fore r arid and she admits it is pretty hard getting used used I tp tp things She Shi declared th the steamship made one oneS S terribly tc sick and the long train ride made one s sr so r awfully train sick Then the changing of the loose and comfortable kimono for the steel-lined steel paraphernalia paraphernalia para- para S of the American man uman man was a hardship and aud when one has been used to Japanese food all allone's allones ones ones one's life the meats and the sauces of the Americans S are aria terrible things to tackle tackle But she is trying to tobe b be philosophical She is aI amazed at the size of I S everything in New York and when Uey came over over I the prairies rairies after seeing almo almost t every day n miles iles I and pud Dd miles of what appeared to be good land without without- i S a settler she wondered why with so much room we weI I I could not let a few J Japanese ap nese come over here and live S I. I Mrs Kendall had neve never been out of Japan bet beS be- be t S university It i is the school attended by the young i Japanese nobles and which is known as the emperors emperor's em- em j own own school He says all big business in Japan J rall and foreign cities is by cabling and he 5 cited on one big house which spends g gold ld a 1 just in cables He has gone to New York on ona ona ona I a a contract to revise the codes of several of the biggest corporations in that city l I ff He says sas the Japanese everywhere are suffering for want of money They are doing everything they can an to get it He added that The foreigner n 1 Wi W i eS that does not know no v the Japanese language l has has' to employ a banto which word m means ans interpretS interpreted tel ted S But the banto is really a go He get geth h s squeeze out of- of both the foreigner and the J Japanese panes with whom the foreigner does business S. S and often gets away with lots of money S He ITe says ays if you want to do any great amount of f business in Japan you must give a geisha spree Even then if your competitor offers the banto a a. larger percent percentage ge he lie will get the order He says The big houses often pretend to underbid each other othar an and then square the deal deal- a afterward That is but bitt a confirmation of the testimony of every very man who ha tried to do business there And he says further that th the Japanese dislike foreigners thoroughly if it they could do do it without k getting rl into trouble they would kick every for- for jL cigner r. r out of the country They have a sort of h in in- I l 1 s 5 nate jealousy of anybody who can can do something they cannot a and d when they think they can ean do it is us vell well as a a er erth th they y h have ve employed they discharge discharge discharge dis dis- charge him hinl They are now replacing the foreign e d Captains r i ns' ns and engineers of their merchant ships as fast as they can train up lip young Japanese to o take their places He says too their success in two wars t S ars h has s made the Japanese thoroughly y conceited They believe they have only to make a big effort and they can conquer the world That is exactly the i idea of f J Japanese that at everyman everyman every everyman man finally entertains who lives there l long ng enough nough They have have- no nC gratitude gratitud they have no honor and they a aTe ale e thoroughly dishonest lOnest They will steal a amans 1 iuan mans man's s 's invention if it i is a machine they will steal the machine tak take it to pieces And nd m make ke one like it There is no doubt either about their conceit They really think they could whip any power in the I world wend and the great nations had better prepare themselves because som some day that feeling will wiIl cause them to provoke a savage war as we look at it about tl the time their alliance with Great Britain ceases By that time they will have a new new race of Soldiers grown up plenty of warships and it willbe will willbe b be their study to strike where they can do the most harm and by giving the least possible noti notice e. e most |
