The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-12-22

nelgnpors Is small yellow disk over the
door. The interior decorations are happy
com bination of English and japanese.
Washington society expresses some regret
that it is decidedly a bachelor household.
and Nine Tateno, wife of the former
minister, and Miss Goto, her niece, are
very greatly missed. Mr.. Shinichiro ku-
rino, though be presented his credentials
as minister so late as the 28th of August,
is already quite popular in social circles,
and his two japanese attaches are true
gentlemen of their race, but there are as
yet no ladies attached to the legation.
The Chinese Legation.
In this respect itpresents very marked
contrast with the Chinese legation, where
Mime. Yang Yu has quite won the hearts
Of all the official ladies', SO to speak, by
her graceful manners and pleasant, almost
childlike artlessness. One by one the re-
strictions which hedge In Chinese ladies
have been laid aside until this year for the
first time there is 10 distinction whatever
between that and any other legation. Din
ners and at leost one ball will be given
there this winter, and at the informal teas
and afternoon receptions the etiquette is
American in all respects. To return to
diplomacy, it is only necessary to repeat
that the treaty recently signed by Secre-
tary Gresham and Minister Kurino re-
moved the last distinction between Japan
and other countries-that Is to say, IL re-
nounces those claims which the leading
nations have always insisted upon in deal
ing with the semicivilized.
For 25 years the United States has en-
deavorcd to secure a larger autonomy for
Japan, but the nations of Europe have OBJ
iected, and Great BIitain's latest treaty
with her fixes Japan's customs duties for
a term of years. So far as we are con-
cerned Japan is now FREQ to pass McKin-
ley bill or a Wilson bill or any other kind
OF a tariff bill she pleases, and our consuls
in her ports have practically the same
powers as hers four ports. The diplo-
mats here, and, most Of all, the japanese,
are inclined to laugh at the propositions
for clauses restricting japanese immigra-
ton to this country, and Japan has a very
stringent law forbidding her citizens to
migrate to any country where they are not
welcomed. In short, it may be said that
the rise of this great power in the orient
in less than one mans lifetime is the
phenomenon of modern history, and the
fact that we Americans gave the first i'm
pulse and are the first to recognize the
completed work must go upon the record
TO the everlasting honor of the Pierce and
Cleveland administrations.
IL seems to me but yestcrday-for / was
then just beginning to read the daily pa
pers-that all this country was clarifying
the achievements of Commodore Perry.
The Crimean war and the great specula-
ton in breadstufJs which it excited in this
country obscured the fame of the Perry
expedition for awhile, but soon all the pa
pers were full of il, and when the book
peddiers of those times trsversed the west
with the big red volume in which the do
ings of our sailors in Japan were most
fioridly related and gorgeously illustrated
it was TO the people like hearing and read
ing about the discovery of a new world.
1t was in 1859 that the murder of some
American sailors shipwrecked on one OF
the islands led to the Quitting of the
Perry expedition. In February, 1854, IL
entered the bay of Yado, and soon after
the treaty was made which opened three
ports to Americans. Six years later the
famous japanese embassy reached this
country. and such was the crowding to sec
them that we'll hammered people were
shocked, all the comic papers burlesqued
the performances ard even the Ministries
took it up and inflicted on the public a
mess Of doggerel beginning: