| Show JI II g IX IN 1 S NE W YO II One ot of the tho visit 81 of ur tho the J pa nese III in e C York Is III worthy of at a tt hI notice The rho New el York 1011 Wot World VOid Id my III tho Japanese sailors 81 hots ibid did not go o to 11 t the lie Bowery Thin Is I ot or course something unusual of or foreign f always S patronize the Uia haunts of lie vice Ice But Dut tho the Japanese nese wore were sober and or orderly orrl ordeny deny derly rl rl detailed f U H thi th Wot Id waw not lot more Inure disconsolate rIl L than the Improvised geisha girls The fh froth WitS was oft Ott the tho lh sake the thu man at III atthe the tho piano 11 pounded away auay to 10 empty the rain foil fell and gloom settled on 01 the tho haunts of oC revelry It Jl Is III not ant usually liO o WhO when a IL squadron Is 1 In 11 port The Japanese have loeve a II reputation for fOI or good tood t During Daring the campaign In Iii China for or the relief ot or the tho foreign diplomats In Iu the Japanese con cOIl contingent ot of till tile military expedition Is itt liali to been heen the tie most exemplary of rIll all The Japanese Q were vere not guilty of cc o the thit excesses e to 10 which thili Christian soldiers given gi n This accounts Very I for fOI ot their thelt superiority In Inthe the tho Held POI Por ova even In iii moral excellency Is III as Il essential as OS physical strength hurl and endurance Tho The visit of or General Kuroki to 10 his 1 Is an no event of or no small im importance I U HII is lit the 1 tithe time that u 11 3 Japanese general adorned by n a lau mu of victory over European 1 to 10 this tila country He lie hi Is hithe the hero herti of oC VOlt Vain and Muk den tho tue Japanese e performed wonders of fh and nud valor And ho he cornea collies In hi that took tool part In Inthe the tho of the Co r e lean tean straits whore where navy nuy 9 swept off of the Ihl surface of or the Iho noa Ill It lt Is barely half a century since the tile opening up of Japan by II b Perry At t that time very VOI little vas known ot or Japan The accounts say that Perrys treaty was waR made not nol Ith the tho hil hut but with the thu who hi 0 hud had usurped ItS 1 his 11 Is OH t The Themen men taco at aL the court It II Is said salol wore silken eighteen Incites Inches too long The rue baggy hags bottoms of these garments dragging on the tue floor thu tho court the of ot being beilig always on their knees Still greater reverence was paid to 10 the tiit MI MIkado 11 tullo kado Ordinary nary men 1301 never saw al him It was ns not until that Perrys treaty and others that thaI hud had followed It IL became really cull binding by U being behl by 11 the tha present Mikado who vho had hud crushed the to assumed ti his till full au nu authority u U lh This was Willi less than forty yOutH jears urs ago iiO Japan II as nil a 1 worM power Is the tho won wonder der ot ut the tite age It sprung up 1111 in lu one onu they day as pa It w It II would he be erroneous ous IUS to II 13 that the Japanese welI savages iho ho have hll become civilized In half hair u II century They were civilized when Perry visited them They Tho had u it civilization of their own and on this foundation have built hullt with the most wonderful Japan hAil hns hAilI I n ii great greul deal from froll this Ih West Vet Site She hat 1415 been J ell an nn apt scholar Hut we 1 may llla have something to I from Ja Jit Japan pan hat too tou mill and w WI te should not Iut be lie ices leu Ie apt alit |
