But however undignified the Jcarousing of the waitresses with their male quests may be, the unbbridied licence to encountered Jhouses of assignation, geisha of course, the "gay quarters" is a hundred titness worst But, if the police are asked why they permit this latter and frown 80 forbiddingly on the cafe waitresses who, by comparison, are innocent jcherubs, the ronly, unhesitatingly, will be' that, while' the geisha and the loro are' licensed, the cafe waitresses are not, and, therefore, the latter have no' right iit Japan, this explanation fs sudtcion.
The general publ respite from: th 9 of Verne gency" and similar alarmist news, E'\eenly watching tke outcome of mew tussle between the City Fathers and the city's waltrestet, The bigger cafes of Tokyo, some of which employ as many as 290 to-300 are run. by Osaka. businesefen and, consequently, "have con-[siderable money behind them. The native Osakan, to whom business is the be-all and end-all of life, has aver yet boon known, to be badly worsted ins commercial fight and the people of Tokyo clined "to. believe that the Fathers will discover that they have Bitten off more than' they "could
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