To the Editor of the "NoxrwCmia Datty News."
Sin—Referring to your very detailed explanatory article of Saturday last about the enthronement rites of "Tenshi-sama" (Honourable Son of Heaven) as the people over in Japan colloquially call their ruler I would think that the following will interest you and your readers as it serves incidentally as fan example of the affluent feature of the Japanese vocabulary.
The word "Tenno" denoting Em: peror ix used often when preceded by the posthumous laudatory name of ruler like "Simma Teno," "Meiji Tenno," and so forth. As stated in your article one uses "Kotei" in somewhat elation to external affairs, it being.
version of in the stilted style of official documents of an international nature.
Generally speaking "Emperor lone, however, is "Ietka" in good Stil) another word Mikado," which may quite freely be rendered into "August Sovereign" is, T think old Japanese igh and through. At any rate int hut pleasing appeal to the Japanese car, though not used any longer at home and associated almost anywhere abroad with the comic opera of the same poetical form exestive of a highly exalted position invested with regal authority.
T might say in thix regard that mainly on account of the wholesale adoption of Chinese characters the modern "Japanese is fall synonyms as wel) as antonyms to say nothing of homonyms. Dictated farther by growing and varying laaes the synonyms seem to have: inereasol in far greater numbers than in the English Innguage.
Ren Wire Lawreas, Sha, News" orant me space in ed paper again to ex. grateful thanks to all fous contributions te raise the sum Mex. 320° (in association with Day commemoration) for the blind soldiers and sailors, inmates of St. Dunstan's. A draft fon the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, London, for £309. being the equivalent for Mex. 220 has this day been forwarded by me to the Treasurer of St. Dunstan's Carol League, together with a copy of the "North China Daily News" of November 12, in which you were good enough to' publish a fall list of the contributors to this most deserving When you announced that the subscription list was to be closed fon the Lith instant, to associate my appeal with the anniversary Armistice Day, I have been told, doth personally and by telephone by well-wishers of St. Dunstan's, that some were very sorely grieved and others "disappointed" at my not having called on them and made my appeal more generally known. My excuse is that I did best in the limited time at my dis-Posal. Certainly, I was not able to make it convenient to fit in calls with the office hours of those in there are others willing ist this very worthy cause and to them I give the Treasurer's Office address, Inner Circle, Regents' Park. NW.L, who will always be thankful even for the "widow's mite" in aid of those who, in fighting to defend our homes and hearths, sacrificed that faculty of all faculties so dear te us in life—sigh 1 am, ete 'S. G. Kuucny-Games.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.