The Archive · 1930

Nanking Temple to

MADE A PARK

Nanking, Sept. 24

To provide note reevéatton facili ties for the increasing population the capital, it is learned that Tsinghai Temple in Hsialewan, and Paomahang, along the Chatgxhan have been selected Ly the Municipal Buren of Publte Works Hfor conversion into public pucks—Kuo Min, law of economies fowved thers wy do Tu Hodogaya, a suburb of Yoko= Jama, where' there ard geisha establishments galore, the geisha have organized themselves into a imited "company and offer pleasure-seckers a now type of elisha, something hitherto utheariof in Japan. This type of geisha Jdoes not come to moot a guest lad in shimmering silk that trails along like sacerdotal robes, with mincing gait and an almost express fsionless face; instead, a damsel short skirts, fine transparent, sill those and a welcoming emile step forward and shake hands with non-Japanese she a few words of English such as: "Hub are you.

Instead of the picture-posture dances of the geisha of old, Japostrophising through the medium Jof the dance, the harvest moon or the—gold-and-crimson of maple eaves, these lasses will shimmy and bunny-hug and when the phonograph plays a lilting popular chorus will sing like any other jazz baby.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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