Dr. Dan, who has been touring Great Britain and the Continent, has returned to Japan, where he has been received with all the enthusiasm that country usually bestows upon her distinguished sons, or the very distinguished ones of other countries, and has since been telling the Japanese very forcefully that "they must. discontinue their luxurious habits and unnecessary ceremonials." If they do not heed him, then the fall of Rome will be as nothing to the regular last fence purler which will be the fate of Japan. The good Doctor has certainly been very kind to our virtues and most charmingly blind to our faults. He tells of seeing a business men's gathering in Europa where they divided up into threes when it came to smoking. so as not to waste matches. But we wonder if the Doctor happened to see any of the newest ocean liners, with lifts to bring passengers up a matter: of 30 ft., marble everywhere and all the fittings of the grandest hotels of the world's great capitals. Has he heard of the Berengaria, with a swimming bath bigger than the Rowing Club's here, and a professional lady instructor—for a trip that takes less than a week? Has he also heard of "'the limpets'" and the "Geddes axe?" The folks ab Home would smite, perhaps a little dismally, could they read Dr. Dan's eulogies of the general economy he found there.
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