The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-23
PERKINS SEES HUMOR IN JAPAN.
English IS she Is Spoke-Pidgin and
Scholastic English.
Eh Perklns tn Nelp York Sun.

Eli Perkins in NelD York Sun.
The contrasts In Japan are pronounced.
The emperor, bis court, and military,
diplomatic and fashionable circles are wear
ing American clothes and struggling to
learn the language. 1t requires a little
knowledge Of English as well as o Swallow
teiln coat to go to a swell japanese dinner
or to the emperor's drawing room. Many
of the head Japanese are up in the Prince
Albert frock coat for Toxic garden party,
and a japanese or Chinese tailor knows
what you mean by Tuxedo"
''What will you charge for a Tuxedo
half-dress suitln l asked All Shing, point
ing 20 a New York fashion plate.
"Cloth cost thilteen dolla. l makee suit
for sixteen dola,n and in two days he
brought in a beautiful suit from the finest
English cloth, and followed it with hand
some beaver overcoat lined with ricn satin
for SIG. The low price was on account Of
low wsRes-about u cents per day for su
perb workmen.
What do you pay your men for making
a suit, All Shingp asked.
1.-TWO dolla for suit, one dolla half for
ovelcoat. l makee one dollA on suit and
sixty cents on ovelcoat."
This same tailor makes the richest tailor
made womans suit, lined with satin, for
S2S, the same that a New York tailor
paying big wages. would ask from $50 to
$3.50 for.
This great change in dress. of course, has
only come to the large cities like Toxic,
Yokohama and Kobe. Away out In the
country the poor farmers and their wives
are still costumed in the primitive dress. On
a rainy day they both wear grass suits
They are simply matched with rice straw,
and, in that costume, you will see men and
women standing knee deep In the flooded
rice fields. 1t makes ones heart bleed to
see them bending over in the hot sun hoeing
the rice hills with their hands
ENGLISH AS SHE is SPOKEN IN JAPAN.
So anxious are the Japanese to learn En-
gllsh that the iinrlkisha man or amah (maid)
will repeat after you any English word they
hear. Servants will come aud beg to work
for an American for their rice and the privi-
lege OF being ordered in English. When we
came away from Yokohama the last day /
remember how proud our jinrikisha man
was when he made US present OF a bundle
OF fans, and said, with his face all beaming
with SMILES, "Please accept from Fuji San
No. l, nor how triumphantly he looked
down upon the other "rikshas" who did not
understand him. Full San was prouder Of
that speech than Cicero was of his speech
againsttC Catalina.
The Japanese have a mania for putting
up English signs, and they food your room
at the hotels with English cards. And such
English The Japanese have no Imperative
mood, and they generally express an ldea
negatively that we express positively. One
day | said to the waiter:
"Kishi, the rolls are cold"
Yes" be said, "a good deal of NOT COOL
ing the cakes is good.n
conspicuous notice at kloto hotel
reads:
hall 10
the dining and drawing room without the guests
allow.
One Of the articles in the municipal laws
of Kioto reads:
Any dealer shall be honestly by his trade OF
course the sold one shall prepare to make up the
safe package.
A Toxic dentists circular reads:
Our tooth is q very important organ for hu.
man life and countenance as you know: there.
fore when it is attack by disease or injury arti.
fetal tooth is also very useful. l Rm engaged in
the Dentistry and will make for your purpose,
The printed label on the claret bottle al
Nikko read:
Weak man who is not so hard Of his stomach
takes notice of his health ever must use this
wine usually,
To show how differently an educated
Chinaman, far above pdgin English, han
dies our language, / add a note which re-
ceived from Eu Don, a Chinese banker.
whom invited to dine with Consul Cen
eral Leonard at the Aston house, Shanghai:
SHANGHAI, LIST August.
DEAR SIR; am Regret to inform you that as
you so kind call me To Take dine To-day, which
was my Engagement To Night Have none time
TO meeting you Such pretty Dinner, and much
obhge. Yours faithfully, EU DON.
OFFICIAL ENGLISH IN THE COURTS.
One day in Yokohama a Japanese sailor
was arrested for assaulting a jinrikisha
man. The English court room was crowded.
and desiring TO hear the English language
as spoken officially in the court room by a
wise magistrate, crowded in with the rest.
The polite old magistrate wore sandals. a
hmono, and silk hat. Putting on his glasses
he looked solemnly at the culprit and the
examination commenced.
why do you strike this jinrikisha
man"
HE told me impolitely.n
W hat does he told you impolitelyP'
He insulted me, saying loudly, The
sailor, the sailorp when am passing here. y
DO you strike this man for that"
Eyes"
But DO not strike him, for it is forbid
den."
~ strike him no more"
Good" said the magistrate. 'sif he will
strike or terrifY the people with enormous
voice. he viii himself be an object of fear