The reason for this strictness on the of the police is not difficult to find.
think that foreigners despise them for zoing about en deshabille, and they are ed in consequence their lower el bille so far as they can prevent it. doubt the primitive Japanese customs T have alluded to. although perfectly inno-ut, lead Japanese, especially Japanese ladies, to he in: sulted or treated rudely sometimes when they go abroad. As an instance in point I need only mention the Hawaii Quarantine case, on which occasion American quarantine doctor insisted examining " Japane: "ina manner very different from in which he examined her European fellow-passengers.
But in spite of their indignation about mations like these the Japanese will never succeed in winning great respect: in these matters from the Westerner until he self has changed his manner of treat his women-folk. 1f, at the present day Japanese wants to entertain an intimate European friend he seldom or never asks house; the entertainment takes place at a tea-house. In one case out of a hundred the European may be brought to his Japanese fri. d's place of residence and introduced to the different members of the family, but even then he does not make their acquaintance. They come and kowtow and chat very pleasantly for few moments and sip tea and light a cigarette, and then excuse themselves and kowtow again and depart in the most graceful manner possible—never, in all, probability, to exchange a single word again with the stranger for the rest of their lives. The same state of things prevails to a considerable extent in Spain, the most Oriental of Western Christian countries.
In short there is no home life in Japan. The grown-up members of a family are more like a number of persons who have come together accidentally than ike blood relations. They eat apart, they treat each other with ceremony when they meet; and perhaps it is on this account that they are Very polite people and that family life is often so smooth and uneventful.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.