Garland Globe | 1906-04-14 | Page 5 | Looked like Giants to Japs

LOOKED LIKE GIANTS TO JAP8. Little Men Astonished at Size of American Clergymen. Bishop MoVIcknr of Rhode Island, a man of great physical proportions, onco visited Jnpan with Dr. Phillips Brooks, who fell but llttlo behind lilm In height nnd breadth. To tho dlminu tlvo Japs tho two stalwart American clergymen were sources of unending wonder. "Wo did not mind ordinary tributes to our Blze," says tho bishop "but tho wonder which tho size of our feet elicited wits hardly Haltering. In entering a Japanese houso you nrr supposed to leave your shoes outside, and never did Dr. Brooks nnd I come oilt but wo found an ndmlrlng and wondering crowd either measuring out shoes or gazing upon them In admlr:-. tlon, They wore pretty sizable shoes, I admit."