New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-03-15
SIR EDWIN iRNOLD ~ JAPAN.

From a letter In The 4. Louis Republic.
>r Edwin pretty Young ri.l pupil, had been acting
saiutins their equals, their interiors, their -upcriOs.
and people whose relative rank 10 th"m doubtful
treated badly In Japan. " not sufficiently we'll,
but not brItally-with Indifference" The reply.
IaniIy. why should You be treated worscI7 "ior
Two reasons From babyhood we are taught submission
and taught 70 conceal Our feelings
" How 40 you manage your housckccping'' asked
| him.
Neither the cook nor the cook, wife ,pci English
like japanese servants they are always smiling aud
pleasant. and IL YOU treat them wi1l "A Just amount
Of consideration they Will soon become both faithful
and devoted 70 yon. Ny mcnasc consists OF my
gardener and my iihlsha boy aud my daurhter~ maid
aGacn, in "A newly washed blue cody dress with a
large red dragon worked on IN, back; h" f. splendid
At @ dnS aig ov a,rdrmc% name f s2@S
kanzO. ! call him the ace Of spade brcause he
reminds me Of il with his htflc no.. lie makes my
Japanese parbOl Themselves every day. The maid 3
name is Y9shdaol-a dainty milling llitlc thing IN.
without beautiful japanese s,l1tc. She IN, her hair
dressed twice week win m4rvclIons pins. aud ha,
WITH COMPOSITION. made into kind Of iu,i on her
brow. She answers everything with respectful
.kaslkO marima9htr n have a-sented) ~ O'COc /;
she wake, me, drawing back the shot ana pushing in
early breakfast and hleh9y'
in the Eastern fashion. fruit and coffee in bed, and
9 at ~ an IKE from P IL 40 GnDs % Gnr
Of course. Japencs" cups. which are about the ito
II a small after dinner cup. His little maid would
bring in fresh cups % II on tiny 'iay. Offering Il
on her knees half hour or Sir Edwin writes
the manuscript ~ his poems with exceedingly fcw
corrections In the same bold flowing characteristics
hand rs he writes his letters. said good by 10 HIN
in June last and left him glowing IN W" summer
hpautics Of Japan the red and white lotus flowers and
The ,vaving green rico fields He surrounded bv
hundred, OF friends lnh native and foreign for there
was no more hOspable house in Japan than Sir
Edwin Arnold, in nOwNrv AYabu.
There was quite a bright little gathering one night
Henry Savage Landor, the artist; Douglas Saden.
the Australian poet. and COu't Wachtmelser q
Swedish noble and two three prominent japanese.
We dned in European style. not on ~" floor. and the
long table bright with silver and japanese flowers
tastofullv arranged bv the Jap servants. who are
artists IN that particular line. The dining room. a
long narrow room had ShOti. or sliding paper win.
dowS all along side - the room was 81 unhewn
cherry wood with the bark left frc" from varnh or
polish Of any kind. our host had taken good care 10
supplv his japanese guests with their native food.
ard how strange IL looked TO see their lltle brown
Tolshed boxes full o. rice and h'h and chop sticks
placed before them. and little round lacquer bowls
mn Of strange scawced soup and I've FISH SIR Edwin
likes eaki (thn only japanese drink which l. In the
least !ntOvicatlnc Sald Is drunk warn, ard there
Is great cqnctto to be Observed In drinking and eerv
ing H. II l. brought 80 table I'm tall blue china
bottles and the cups tiny blue cgg-Shel china
>arccrs which ONLY hold about three m0uthfnlS. ]
jolncd with Sir Edwin and his japanese guests IN
prcferrng saI to champagne. and great fun we had
thc lessons they gave MS IN the proper wav 70
drink H. toass and the constant exchanging OF each
others snld bowls.