hie depression in Japan has given 'a. good-looking waitress to go on! rise to some extremely bizarre with him elsewhere.
Plains-clothes police, learning of The latest such i the following this, post themselves at neighbour-invitation over an aka cafe: streets and when -a waitress emerges with a guest with whom Mavoja dein anda Mas We the has made a lat swoop down 10 the lon her. The man is left to go'free from the rosebud luniess he tries to expostulate. [Japan is a paradise indeed—for men, That, at any rate, is a free! fand here, without any exception, translation, The cafe in question is always the woman who. pays. yojoices in the mame of Cafe] Again, it 1s not so much the im-Babylon, Whether the name was morality, for one can take a geisha accidently adopted as is the case 80 from her establishment. It is that] often with Japanese cafes, 0r {the waitress is not licensed, while] whether the name was purposely the geisha and her more unfortunate taken is not known. sister, the fille-de-6ie of the licensed Guests flocked in, young as well quarters are, and thus have rendered sold, Statistics afterwards said tribute unto Cesar. 'The great si that the "heavy sugar-daddies" far charged against the waitress to-day' out-numbered the slick youths with is that she is taking trade away pomade-smeared hair. from the geisha. The Government must not be cheated.
Plain-clothes police also went.
'Whey reported to headquarters that Petting Parties of Two they were eye-witnesses to some'
The Cafe Babylon, which the Yervible goings-on. In fact, after police had closed for permitting! they had ordered their "poison," waitresses to give and take kisses highly-calcimined waitresses brought Jand for being an accessory to the them their "Made in Osaka Sukoteh ferime, as the lawyers would say, on 'Whiskey"—which, by the way re-opening boldly announced: Tittle less than flame and sword—and, wit their soft lips, brush presses don't kiss any the' unshaven faces of the police ople read this strange pro-'The chief of police of Osaka was nunciamento, blinked, read it a shocked. Such turpitude! And in smiled, guessed that there some sort ofa catch in it, city like Osaka!
The manager was hauled up. He walked in, denied "any knowledge of any sors misconduct, never even knew that. such things happened in his establishment, which, he said, had] forbidden any osculatory Always enjoyed a high rebut demonstrations, the—waitresses s being Osaka's model cafe. The] obeyed the injunction to the letter, Girls who were alleged to have welcomed their gusts their arms pressed their rouge-carmined lips the plain-clothes men's cheeks, on] cing questioned, "passed the bul rmuring soft endearments. They] xo the limbs of the law. 'The officers also, it was afterwards revealed, irat flirted with them, they averted; held' hands and sat on the laps of it, was they who the first those who bought them cocktails and dvances, and the waitresses resisted. eft them good tips. But kiss they Bur the girls knew quite well that didn't, The place' was padlocked they were detectives and, therefore, again for another month. The surrendered and obliged the]? prietor told his friends that, for} they mi, tals was the best advertise-"The public think my place they would doubl-erss foa wicked one and my waitresses ined to brimstone and ashes. us thus. Ah men, 'They consequently crowd in, for police, who will "always find its' own rial powers, preferred to believe. his own men," padlocked if you ask them, will the Cute Babylon for a' month and they always prefer "modern fined the two waitresses two yer] (modern grandfathers—that is each, Shortly after this, the Tokyo) police, who affect ain extremely, puritanical outlook in regard to the "enjoyments of both the young and the old, set out on one of their! periodical cleansings of the moral Augean stables of Tokyo. They did not go to the Yoshiwara, or the numerous kurawe (licensed red light} distriets)—there is at least, one of these in every. ku ov district, distinct and separate from, but model: Jed on the Yoshiwara)-—where vice nite ugliest mien flourishes both ight and day." Instead, they made 2 frontal assault on the cafes which, comparison, ate pure as the Griven snow. These, they said, with tly waltzing and fox-trotting, with their jazz atmosphere, with their emi-shaded comers and with thee hhighiy-painted waitresses were 3 menace tothe moral life of the Tapital, "They. muse forthwith be pure! of all their dross.
Thirty cates were ordered to close their doors on the ground that the ies, with the full. knowledge and connivance of the management, ha! been guilty of immorality, The ordering the closing of ifshments, listed "the ences comniltted as "from ki ing in comers with ne assignments with them' The evi me was not 30 much what the conduct. was immoral as that. the overs and would-be lovers had not vendeved "tribute to Casary asi one bythe red-ignt- regions.
Dodges by enterprising eatés—Tokyo. teers with them and. the competition after night has fallen is'simply flerce—are every now and then played up with a vengeance in the Vernacular "organs. Some. of cafes insist that the waitresses uss of patrons and, if any Topears to be "flush," to please him ju every. possible. way. This type fof quest generally tries to persuade elderly persons who are fond bright lights and liquor).
they like the "heavy! sugars' because they tip them aiore handsomely than the young] student and ill-paid clerk. Although these eat lassies make 'a pretence] vf welcoming all and sundry with open arms, making an appointment them'is not s0 easy. For one the lass isn't sucha fool or so wicked as the police and the newspaper reporters try to make her out to te. The reason: Quite a number of them are married, oF have patrons.
Tipping is a fine are in Tokyo, especially in the cafes that flank the Jay ip too much, you are apt regarded as being a the head or with suspicion; if too tle, you are apt to be called, hind your back, a kitchimbo (cheap skate). One should strike the happy tedium and this is somewhere in] the region of about 20 per cent. of rone total expenses, but with a minimum set at 50-sen.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.