Show honor of the japanese are great admirers of epigrams and apt phrases their loye love of such things Is carried so BO far that when a guest says something unusually brilliant the host or hostess will beg him to write down bis remark in large ornamental script tho the sentence la Is then mounted and hung on tho the wall as a permanent addition to its ornaments much as aa we might hang bang up a text or motto naturally the author of a bon mot treated in this way feels himself highly honored to be thus placed on record but the sentences sentence are selected more for their wisdom than their humor so that the funny rian nian Is not much in evidence swi dence |