Girls seeking admission to the High School at Kagoshima were recently put through a general knowledge test, and the answers given by some display the delightful similarity of human nature all the world over. To the question, "Who Mr. Hara." answers ranged from the statement that he was a. Chio ese to a suggestion that the word connoted a "haughty and voluptuous man." Nor is it surprising that a number of girls (and a good few others as well) should not know who their Premier is. It happens all the time, and not alone in the case of young girls. "Who was Cardinal Wolsey?" yan the question, and confidently came the answer, "The victor of Tel-el-Kebir." In certain quarters Gordon has been found to be better known through an association with dry gin than with Khartoum or the Taiping Rebellion, while of course the most famous and best known Scotsman of the present day is not Earl Haig or Mr. Balfour but Sir Harry Lander. In the circumstances Mr. Hara need take no offence at the suggestions current in the about young generation him.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.