Fathers have discovered that there a deficit of Y. 3,000,000 in the: next budget and have set to work to secure this from Geishaland. It is not believed that further taxes could be levied on any other, section of the community without something akin to a furious uproar. 'The City Fathers have decided to move in the direction of the tine of least resistnce—namely the geisha 'The geisha, of cou forth. with raise their prices' as, soon tax goes into effect, which wi mean either more woeful wasting on the part of the young bloods, what is better, less frivolling an woman-baiting in Geishadom.
It is uplifting to. study the speeches made at the aldermen's meeting in regard to the raising of sufficient money to pull Tokyo city out of the mire of debt. Nearly everyone talked of taxing the geisha and referred with Pecks-ruffian heart and voice to the re-sultan immense moral gains to the community.
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