Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-08-21

school and always innocently modest
they are too. Sometimes I see the
Young gentleman guests admiring the
pretty hands and necks Of the girls as
they pat their red cheeks. When l
asked Koko and Meto what wages they
received, they said in broken English:
ave get 50 month and our pretty
clothes"
''But the presents you get?"
"We give those to master and at the
end Of the year he makes US present. p"
The prices at the FujiyA like all
Japanese hotels, are So day. The
hotels are away up in the mountains
above the clouds aud look out on Fijiy-
ANA. This is u favorite resort OF Sir
Edwin Arnold. The poet finished writ
ing to-day q Japanese drama for Lon
don manager to put on the stage In
Japanese costumes.
"Oh, yes" he said, IS he read ro-
mantle section OF the play, 81 have put
In a lot OF coloring and plenty OF sing
ing and dancing girls. In fact, l am an
old hand at the drama and l shall put
in what Tennyson left out. / am offered
e5, 900 for the play"
The guests Of this Japanese Saratoga
are cosmopolite. There are golden
haired Yankee girls from Boston and
Chicago, the solemn English girl and
the phlegmstic German girl who drinks
beer at Wiesbaden. The American girl
abroad is always &c the front. She
dances prettier, flirts harder and climbs
higher than any OF the rest. She gets
an autograph from Sir Edwin while the
English girl is asleep and has the En-
slish girls lover at her feet while she
plays the samisen, the japanese banjo.
In the evening II was amusing to see
the japanese girls trying to dance the
round dances. The Japanese are bound
TO became European. The Emperor and
Empress dress in European costumes,
walk on English carpets and eat French
dishes. The swell young japanese has
his Tuxedo and the girls are struggling
into kid gloves and corsets. Their little
feet, always accustomed to sandals,
ache in kid slippers, but the Empress
has said Chinese methods must go, and
the swell girls and boys are bound TO
give I'D sandals and kimonos, quit chop
sticks and the geisha dancing and whirl
In the german.
After the dance was over l peeped
through a lattcework and saw beyy
of laughing japanese beauties taking
rest. They had thrown of kid slippers
and corsets and put their bare feet into
sandals and were squatted cross-legged
on the foor-resting! Dear corseteSS
children OF nature, how they enjoyed
sweet and picturesque liberty after an
hours debauch in civilized fashion and
flirting.
Some Of the naughty old Daimios, the
proud fellows who lost their swords
when the Mikado squelched the Tycoon
in 1865 will not be Europeanized. 10 Is
not uncommon to see them leave their
sandals at the door OF the Imperial
Hotel dining.room In Toxic and march
as proud as CAESARS, but with bare feet,
over the japanese floors. Sometimes be
checks his sandals, but walks in with
his hat on and his kimono wrapped
around him like a Roman toga. In fact,
the kimono is a Roman toga, and
grand old Japanese Daimio looks not
unlike the statue OF Augustus In Rome.
Going down the mountain from Miyan-
oshita the next day In junrlklshas 1t was
amusing TO watch these romantic
Yankee girls behind the broad-breasted,
muscular coolies. When the naked ac-
robats would turn precepice down
which you look hundreds OF feet into
foaming cataracts, the girls would
scream with glee, and the coolies would
look around proud Of their burdens.
But what contrast: In tho jiDrikisha
was the bright, cultured Yankee girl,
enthusiastic, irail but magnetic. In
front was the strong animal man with
shining skin and swelling tendons.
IL would be an immense attraction II
the managers OF the Chicago fair could
have dozen Of these Japanese jinrik-
isha runners, these splendid coolies, AT
the fair.
SIR EDWIN ARNOLD.
Everybody in Japan is in love with
Sir Edwin Arnold, but the coming poet
laureate is especially gracious TO Amer
lea. The poet is here TO drown his grief
at the loss OF Lady Arnold, and ! sup
nose we Americans amuse him. The
poet makes his home at the beautiful
Imperial Hotel in Toxic, the finest hotel
In the Orient.
Among Americans here now are
Heber Bishop, a curio collector, young
Senator Lispenard Stuart aud Georges
Cayyan. Daniel Frohman's leading lady
at the Lyceum. A curIo dealer spoke OF
selling kImono 10 Miss Cayyan.
Yes" said my wife, "she Is an &C
tress."
ACTRESS" repeated the japanese re-
gretfully; 81 beg pardon for mentioning
her name"
"Not at ALL" said my wife, "Ameri-
can actresses are most worthy people,
and Miss Cayyan is a great artist. See,
she Is even now talking with al Ameri-