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Show Japanese Girls in 'Frisco. (From the San Francisco News-Letter.) A few evenings ago about 6:30, as I was walking along Octavia street, near Sutter, I passed two intelligent looking, neatly dressed little Japenese girls, one apparently 12 years old, the other probably prob-ably 14. Although their general air of refinement vas striking, what particularly particu-larly Impressed me were the few words of their conversation that I overheard as they walked by. They were not talking in Japanese. "I do not like any one to talk about me in that manner," man-ner," said one. "Oh, you really don't suppose that she meant it, do you?" was the reply. "Well, how could " That was all I heard. The English was perfect, without a sugge-stion of foreign for-eign accent, and the voices were sweet and well modulated. Had my eyes been closed, I should never have imagined im-agined that the girls were anything but the daughters of cultivated Anglo-Saxons. Anglo-Saxons. Yet the admission to citizenship citizen-ship of these people is hysterically opposed op-posed by a lot of wild-eyed Swedes, Fins, Hungarians and other foreigners, whose speech is almost unintelligible to a native American. |