Prom Ocx Own Comzsronser, Tokyo, Mar, 25.
East and West, without a doubt, fare reaching out to each other and meeting in a variety of ways. But there are certain phases of Occ dental and Oriental: life where, concerned that each division remain on its own side of the fence.
This truism seems amply just fied in a case that is receiving con-iderable attention in Japan to-day, fas the result of a rift in the domestic lute of a noble Japanese family. On the one side is the French girl widow of a Japanese nobleman and on the other her extremely conservative Japanese mother-in-law.
The curtain raiser of this drama takes us back to the days of the Great War. Baron Shigeno, Japanese nobleman of good family, but not too well blessed with the Tiches of this life, was commissioned by the Army to proceed to France and learn everything po sible about modern aeroplane wa fore. He was a widower, his Japanese wife having predeceased him a couple of years before hostilities engulfed Europe.
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