Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1900-10-11
A JAPANESE DINNER.
HOW THE DISTASTEFUL FOOD Is
SERVED AND EATEN.

saunttinS Before Tables Six Inches
High, One WrestIes With Chop
sticks and Tiny Bowls, the While
Waited Upon by Barefooted Maids.
To an American given to stiff joints
and corpulency a-Japanese dinner IS
tedious experience, especially when
he's used to business lunches and the
like. But ii is worth trial and dis
comfiture If one is fortunate enough
to be the guest of 4 rich man, for IN
Japan hospitality is one of the cardinal
virtues.
Western customs and usages have
found their way into many homes OF
the wealthy, whose dinners ana
lunches are the counterpart Of those
with which we are all familiar. But
real Japanese dinner, including chop
sticks, lacquer trays and tiny cups, Is
q thing never to be forgotten.
japanese houses are made up Of slid
ing screens instead Of our solid partl-
tons and in summer are all leftopen, so
that, seated at dinner, one looks out
over the gardens, seeing the lights OF
the city in the distance, and the scent
Of thousand flowers blows IN with
every breath Of air. =
The guests remove their shoes on
entering the house and, except when
provided with 4 pair Of cotton over
shoes, must spend the evening in
stocking feet unless happily the host
has an extra pair. The wife Of 4 Jap
anese gentleman does not preside at
his table unless there are ladies in the
party, but appears with the tea and
sweetmcats, which always precede
dinner, as do our cocktails and sherry,
etc. She merely greets the guests and
appears again only when the goodbys
are said.
Silken cushions are scattered about
the floor and the guests are arranged
according to rank, for the japanese
are, of course, great sticklers for form
and ceremony. Little tables, some six
inches high, are placed before each one
and barefooted waiting maids in grace
full and prettily tinted kimOnos bring
In lacquer trays with several tiny COW
cred bowls.
800 49, - -, a., roor or1
'''oIo' ny - 49, - tr'af,.
best bow, touching their foreheads to
the floor. Chopstcks take the place
Of knives and forks; but, unlike our
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pol"'oeN u 40 u ~ lei, . fo,,.
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leaves ol ie''uCe, sN t'1-1,',,, 80 oI,o-
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