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Show Peculiar Japanese Custom. Tho foreigner should boware of making presents to nny Japanese girl unless ho Is bent upon matrimony. To present her with any sort of a gift, oven though it bo only n posy, will bo regarded as a proposal of marriage, and to occopt tho present, though not a word of lovo or matrimony ho passed, pass-ed, Is a sign that sho accepts you. Gallant Americans hao got Into serious seri-ous troublo and found It neccssnry to leave tho country at night to escapo a binding ongagement which they thoughtlessly Incurred by giving to maiden some trifle. |