The Archive · 1925

"IS REAL LIFE WORSE THAN THE STAGE?"

will eppcer wert eek Murder ig a healthy crime in Britcin, but proceed" inten aye ex ney Brak thee. Uiedne bishop protente thet th regoer othe stage clough to te went te hear, thes there THE continued misrepresentation conditions abroad by tourists ago has driven the "Japan nice free its mind as llows:—The Rev. John C. Grey. was telling the people of Eltham England lest month all about Japan and the queer people who live appears that Mr. Grey} visited Japan some 30 years azo, of course, he knows all about it, Everything in Japan is known to rey, Said Mr. Grey, suck who persons enter their houses then take off their boots but keep their hi From personal! observation we may rapplemert tatement by adding—except when they yo to bed—or rather try to sleep, for according to Mr.. Grey beds are unknown and there is eat citlieulty in getting anything sft to lie on. In the railway lain, we are assured, the conductor serve> yeu with a cup of tea before he demands your ticket,. and. all [the shopkeepers are simifurly: has-|.! pitable, Really. there i na reagan why Japan should stil be misunder-Hood wwhen.there. exist. persons sble desezite the country.so-sceurately ah. Mr... Grey.—China, too, dbrs. 5ust Inbw, suffered violence, at the hang jot woaldcbe interpretsre-

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