Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21

and fully entered in the official ledger q
the Department OF Police, and the author.
ties sud the law have set up every possi
bic thsore .ical safeguard between the wi
and the keeper, and I believe that these
laws are enfOrced to the letter whent vel
need arises. But also,it goes without say.
ing tina. 20 Solomon could devise theGreI.
zeal safeguards which would practically
PROTECT GIRL
1 under such circuns!snces from unscrup.
uious greed. For instance, every person
in Japan has private seal corresponding
to e signature WITH us, with which al.
documents even down to private letters
are at.ested, sid to counterfeit or repro
duce such sesi is forgery. Now the
keeper Of everyiksshi zsshiki is compelled
by law to keep q big ledger in whica all
money transactions between himself slt
the shogl sre eiteret, and the shogi is
compelled to keep similar
smaller book IN which the keeper
mskss identical entries, each Of which
must be stiested ty her private seal
This book is regularly inspected by the
police with view to prevent extortior,
and it !g expressly forbidden by law fcl
the keeper TO take away the girl's sea-.
Ca one occasion Twas visiting the larges,
and beet kashi z,shiki In the Yos3iRara
10 company with mp official interpreter
TIE keeper wss sharp locking woman Ct
ii tV, WIG had forty FIVE shogi iu her mouse,
which she hsd jast built at q cogt Of
S45 goo Wo were taking tes ceremori-
ousIy IN her private apartments, and sitter
awhile IL quired IL might put SPECIAL
question to her "Certsinly," she replied,
"Any question:" "Certsinly." "Tnen,"
I said 20 the old lady through my inter-
pretsT, twill you be so kind as to show
NE some OF the seals belonging to your
lsdies OF pleasure. that you have at this
moment in your possession"
SHE WINGED vIsIBLY
and turned several coIors, but afSer a
min ute got up without word, srosts d
I f, and returned Immediately with the
private seal OF certain Mics Man, and
took an impression Of it in nay note book,
to her evident great alarm. This meant,
Of course, that she was In the habit OF en-
tegipg the accounts in sllta bocks, at
testing them herself with the seals Of all
her yujo, and thus the police would &c
shown an immaculate financial re-
cord, while the girls themselves would
never even see the books, or know with
how much they were deb,ted ard
credited from week to week. Il is
very unusual, BY the way. for one Of these
great houses to be owned by the keeper;
such profitable property Is generally
owned IN Japsn SIS elsewhere BY highly
respectable capitalists VINO ere never
heard Of And profitable indeed It must
be, tor the market value o; land inside the
Yoshiwars IS compared with tie general
average in Tokyo ID 80 four to one. In
this Yosh!wsra there sre 100 ksshi zssh-
Xxi and about 1850 shogi. Tae govern
ment tax UPON each house is SO q month,
and upon each girl from 50 ceass to So
month, according to her class.
There are ious classes or grades in the
occupation, the remuneration OF esch be-
Ing prescribed hy lev. As everywhere
else the poaition is polycEomcus, o!rsn
being the politest nsne, shcgi the most
frequent, joro the most eceurste and Sc
we're, apd yrjo-'flle de jo!e''-the pref
iiest. Esca mss her. oSsn servant and her
oHa apartment, ct:ea ch.rniIgly decor.
a.ed With
PAINTIEGS AND SCREENS,
and adorned With little carvings and por.
celsin and bits of old silver work and
lacquer, the gifts of grateful admirers.
Ana there is nearly always large written
and framed scroll In conspicuous posi-
ton, exhibiting some scrap CT appropriate
poetry tersely told In the com.
plicsted Chinese characters. One,
remember, hsd the four
characters matsu kiku mao sonsu, literally
"pine chrysanthemum still are" I. e. the