Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-09-22


delight crowded up among the performers
and chung ike flies all over the cart, and
only that providence which takes care OF them.
togetner with drunkards and the United states OF
America, preserved them from making a Jugger-
niut OF IL On foot around the BASH, as the whole
naked as 70 their e the Meh faces or ebalRe With
straw hats yard wide. many-colored tunics, In
which scarlet predominated, decked out with
Sioux chief despair OF himself dancing along 10 a
very rude chant, and at every step banging upon
the ground long iron bar fitted with loose rings
Inc colorS the song, the dance, the music ana
the Changing iron formed together spectacle as
baroaTous in taste as possible, something wholly
diherent from what one had supposed the gentle
greatly puzzled, hut subsequently learned that
this D,ofsai Is not so barbarous as IL looks look
had just as much 10 do with religion as an ItaIlan
carnival haS-Ihat is IL was born OF religious feel
hs anu h ns n ih. or the commoo peope
has always played TO the gallery so TO speak, ana
the priests OF to-day make money out OF the mat
su,, partly In the shape OF coins which are thrown
into the temple ponds and partly IRON their share
OF the subscriptions OF the well-to-do people OF
the neisnSornSod oy whom the festival Is sup
selves or watch others doing so, exactly
:.nrst impressions too, would be complete
without an allusion to the grace and charm
OF the japanese women. The first time one sees a
couple or pretty and prettily -dressed japanese
girls waking abroad under their huge variegated
paper umbrella, with their deliberately dressed
black hair their perfect tiny hands and feet their
large brown eyes-set obliquely II they are "beau-
ties;" with their delicate soft-toned Grape gar
ments, and the heavy nat silk obi twisted round
and round their waist and ending In a colossal
bow behind; with their funny motion on their
cp-claPping pattens, half undulatlng run and
half waddle, and their merry laughter and chat
ter-whcn one sees them for the nrSt time, say,
one Is usually delighted enough TO follow them up
and down Tor hail an hour under a f1ne preLense
OF losing ones way or looking into the shops. AT
in caff n Gnan nh
tograph or them.
AMONEY-MAKING COMMUNITY.
Underlying these first Impressions, however,
what OF Yokohama as a settlement of foreign
residents in Japan-what OF 1t as o part of the
British empire? Naturally, of course, it is place
given 10 money-making; that is its ambition and
indeed ltS rdtson defTe. It's society, accordingly,
has all the characteristics OF any noney-making
community. 1t works hard ana 1t plays hard; it
is extremely hospitable and warmly welcomes
any recommended visitor; poker and cocktails are
as familiar there as In Texas; IT knows little and
cares little about the real Japan ana the real
japanese people. outside the consular service
there are probably not half dozen people who
speak Japanese well enough 10 SHIRE an idea with
the people they live among-Mr. Shan1 Is the
have every reason TO speak kindly OF Yokohama
Tor every body there received me with The utmost
Kindness, and the club is center of the treSst
and pieasantest hospitality, but one cannot help
noticing and regretting, when one returns TO
lonodd!Ila after seeilS Something OF Japan and
JdpdHeoc uOuiS iiie, Ile cOliplele absence Oh Syn
paIny with or even ordinary interest In their
adopted country On the part vi the Yokohama conf
lhunity. Do lac Iorelsn merchants MAKE money
In their own way? Ihe. .'ai Is right "a riLhL
can be?' DO they not? Then no words OF con-
tempt are toe strong w express their feelings. \
rev days ago one or lhe oldest and best informed
merchants there was telling Inc now the action OF
the japanese government on a certain point had
prevented him from Carrying through a prufiCa-
Ole scnene. l said that from the japanese point
OF view could understand The governments ac-
uon- "Bah," he replied, turning on his heel, II
wish ali the - were ill NELL" On board the Bel
gic were two Japanese, anu En- ylisnman hold
ing an important situation In one OF the leading
foreign Inns oil the wnoie East. 'Wnere are those
two nlggers!" he asked in the smoking room one
day, and when we eXpooJulated he replied, "when
you've seen something OF The East you'll know
that everything tnats not white there Is Ligger."
And this, remember, was said by half educated
man who Was reading the trdshiesl OF modern
novels all day, about japanese gentleman who
was u university graduate, speaking three Ian
guageS occupying an official position, and reading
big treatise on international law anu TaIeyrando
Letters for his recreation! The Yokohama mer-
chant does not enter into direct relation with MS
Japanese customers, there being always either a
Japanese odhto or a Chinese cOHpralOre as go
between; While In all the banks the actual cash
Is count d In and cut by a Chinese shror. There
Is no social Intercourse whatever between Euro
peaa and Japanese meychants; 1t Is Just a game or
catch VINO eaten Can, as the nonsenSe-Lale goes,
and II often 'lhe gunpowder runs out at the neels
OF their boots In consequence, that Is only
natural
THE RESULT OF THE SYSTEM
Is that no f1rst-rate Japanese merchant viii at
tempt direct dealings in Yokohoma, and that
therefore Europeans have often been the victims
or the duplicity or dishonesty Of lower class of
In this respect: II European should cheat a jap
anese he would lose caste among many OF his Iei-
lows and the Japanest would combine against
Min; II japanese should cheat European ne
would not lose caste among his fellow Yokohama
japanese, for they would near only his own side
OF the story, and nothing could combine all the
rk.r.- Il - nj he
doubt the foreign community has suffered a good
deal In this way, and no doubt its commercial
morals are qulLe equal to commercial morals
In other parts or the world; but stories OF the Old
time treatment Of japanese by roregiers are still
preserved IN the local gossip, like the noxiouS
sectS OF by-sone age liked III the amber of Durer
manners. Japanese journalist who has lust re-
turner IRON Residence in England was telling
me now he had enjoyed ii, ana added naively,
.but England 1, not the east bit ike Yokohama!'
"Wny, no." said; "oI course noG.' All" ne re-
pieu, thougntIuly, II supposed iC was.S There
are l4ady reasons why loIeign Yokohama should
oe strange society. For one thing, 1t Is sort or
No Mas LAM. IL is in Japan ami yet not IN Ja-
pan. Japanese policemen patrol the Streets but
they cannot enter foreigners house without per-
mission IRON his CONSUL Heace IL Is O
refuge for japanese criminals who are
hidden D. the servants la foreign employ ana
passed on 10 another house-whicn means another
codsufs warrant-when the police come 10 looa
Tor tnea- Its property Is protected It's harbor Is
maintained. and It's coast Is lighted well any,
where In the world, and not 4 penny OF taxes or
cont ibution Dor Tue ground-rentS cannot be so
regarueo) does the community pay for any OF
these only beggarly registration fee to its
consul OF So-lo shIiIingS-a year. The presence
OIL the ncet, Too, Tor long periods with not far from
couple or THOUSAND men on board, has u very
distinct elect IN other ways tnan In doubling the
price or perlshabe provisions. mo 9" Is, OF course
~or4d-laInouS, and IL Is sober truth that IL YOU
step Into a Jinrikisha and say never a word the
experienced cooile Will cart you of there at once
AN IRRITATING CLIaATE.
IT Is curious fact, moreover, which everybody
has told me and nobody has attempted to explain,
that there Is something in the climate or the life
that plays havoc with a foreigners nervous sys-
tenn, destroying nrSI his temper and In an Alarm
Ing number Of cases his reason afterwards One
OF my Ielsow-pdsselgers on the Belsic returning
To IokonaIia, mere he mad lived many years NyitH
ms young bride, cut his throat AT the Grand Hotel
two DAYS after landing; another old Resident not
SOneu hlnlS,lf Win lauuanuIn the next ween and
since tnen another Insanity having developed tseIr
Ia MIN whilst In jail awaiting boDdsInen Tor his
keeping the peace, starved himself " death there
AMI Two or three men have said to me- hall In loke
and nall In earnest, that they feit the clIl.,aIr
having ITS familiar effect upon tnem-tnat they
were getting l.-tempereu and mead achy and ,ra -
orally CRANKY" AT any rate, the YokonI.na
community, Whatever the reason may De- is MOI a
anu degntIui hospitality, It's tennis, iIs cricket
us municipalities, and ILs balls. Their relat, on
Win the people among whom they live Is ia,L
what was propuesled Jnirty years ago for Jauan
b that luminous writer Mr. Laurence OHM mi
as the very PROBABLE consequence OF ,hal .be
our countrylnen when brought into contact with
Seini-clvlllZeu Races" And SO lar as my own on
seryation goes, a statement about ELgiishnen and
natives IN lnula which occurs n tue very remarx
able article ny Mr.. Meredith Townsend in last
months Contemporary Is almost applicable to lie
YOKOHAMA An Ian