| Show A COMPLAINT FROM JAPAN it t la is to be expected that the manner in which many man y of our american girls ket themselves up together with their heir arts and artifices will now and then receive attention at the hands of the taskmaster and social critic and sometime ml too these attentions are timely and instructive in which case the they are eminently proper but here comes faraway far away japan with a denunciation on that subject aimed at west ean rn civilization the effect of the importation por tation of which to is declared to be the ruination of the manners of the japanese women A newspaper of japan commenting on this subject says that th t on the plea pies of tediousness tedious nees and artificiality the usages of female life and deportment have been dispensed with and the modern girl I 1 in her r attempts to imitate foreign manners mannera has almost transformed herself into a man the climax was reached in the case of the girls trained in tokio female schools practices hitherto unknown in japan have become fashionable among them some borne girls girla of good families are living alone in lodging houses others walk unattended in the streets street after dark and groups of five or six alx lx school pupils are to be seen drinking sake or playing cards together at teahouses tea houses the paper properly enough asks what kind of mothers such euch girls are likely to make and concludes with the statement that in the matter of female deportment westerners erners ourselves have nothing to teach and many things to learn from japanese ladies true enough those of japan or some of them are it appears addicted to playing cards and drinking in public houses and unquestionably we caught up in that respect furthermore we are quite willing to remain in the rear and respectfully decline the insinuation that the custom came to them from our side of the great pond |
