Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-05

foreign devils whose mourning color Is
black instead OF white, who remove their
headgear instead of their footgear when
they wish to DE polite, who salute by
handshakes and disgusting kisses instead
of the traditional bowings and prostra-
tons, and whose creed carries barbarsm
to its climax in its impious requirement
that a man shall leave father and mother
and cleave to his wife.
Modern Substitute for Hara-Kiri.
But there is limit to the managers
orientaiism. In spite of kimono, tabi, hi
bachi, futon, to5ako-bon and other jap
anese surroundings, he is not tempted in
the slightest degree to commit hara-kiri
or suicide after the national method by dis
Enforcement in resentment of the days
insults. But, instead, he reserves to him
self the occidental right Of expressing that
resen tment in vigorous English swear
words his own language being entirely de-
ficient In terms of abuse and in verbal IA
cilities for the purpose of profanity. He
thus makes use of the occidental safety
valve for the relief of the emotions, the
absence of which in the case of the Jap
anese leaves apparently no resort but sui
eide.
On this particular day our Nikko man.
ager scared above all his troubles. Com
plants glided from his unctuous person
allty like an opponents grasp from the
oiled body of the native wrestler, without
wrinkling his smooth inscrutable counte-
nance and without subtractng a single
beam of the joyous enthusiasm that danced
in his oblique eyes. The fastidious gentle
man from Philadelphia, who. demanding
bread from his Japanese waiter at the be-
ginning of his meal, was offered not
stone, but toothpicks, found in the manager
a sympathetic and consoling listener to his
tale of woe. So did the Englishman who
had been advised by the manager 0he En-
glishman's own inclinations tending in that
direction) to make the Lake ChuZenji trip
On horseback, and who had been soaked to
the skin in pitless rains. So did the stout
Australian to whom the jinrikisha system
of rapid transit for the lake trip had been
recommended as easiest, ard who found to
his disgust that for half a mile of the way
he had to leave his jinrikisha and Chamber
on foot over sharp and slippery rocks. So
cid the American woman who had endured
INCREASINGLY the rohberies OF the hackman
in the cities of her native land, from whom
a charge of $50 per hour for carriage hire
at home would elicit no remonstrance, but
who by persistent and fretful faultfinding
sorely tried the managers patience because
her jinrikisha man for his days labor up
and down the steep hills OF Nikko had
charged her ~ sen, 10 cents more than
the corresponding charge for the day over
the smooth and level streets of Toxic. But
the lady crying extortion over charge or
AZ cents for carriage and human morse
for the day was soothed as we'll as the
others through the tact and diplomacy or
the manager. And to all the compliments,
as soon as the symptoms Of placatlon APP
peared the manager announced with BOWS
and smiles and appropriate gestures ms
triumph over all his rivals, his masterpiece
OF planning,
ladies (or gentlemen, for the process
sion of today, my arrangements, the ar
rangements for the guests of this hotel, are
unsurpassed. In the broad avenue oppo-
site the Sorinto column, where everything
can be seen a pavilion for the exclusive
use of my guests has been built. There
will be claret punch for my guests and ice
cream and light refreshments. Nothing
like il for the enjoyment of European and
American visitors has ever before been
known in Nikko.' And off the manager
shot to communicate the glad tidings to
contented.
In Honor of Ieynsu.
This, the Sd of June, Is Nikko's great
Cay, noted for the festival and procession
in honor of Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa
Shotgun, who is buried here as to mis- mortal
part and deified and worshiped as a god
Tcshogu in the mortnary chapel near his
tomb.
Ieyasu is the most famous name in jap
anese history. Soldier, statesman. law
giver of the sixteenth century, he wrested
temporal power from the mikado's feeble
hands. and worshipiIg with the rest Of
the nation that monarch as divine, he re-
moved him from degrading contact with
mundane affairs and confined him in the
unapproachable seclusion BETTING q god
which he founded and which reigned for
two hundred and fifty years has been de-
throned as usurpation by the mikado
who finally broke from his gilded prison.
Ieyasu himself retains his glory and II
wcrshiped a. divine by the emperor him.