Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-05-04

and China than between the
men OF these two countries,
and this difference expresses
exactly the relative progress
attained by the two nations on the up
grade OF modern civilization.
In many situations | have seen the
little brown women and girls of Japan
on the shores of their own land, only
half clad, lifting with their tiny hands
great baskets Of coal TO be stored IN
ships hold, kept up to their work by
taskmaster wearing even fewer CLONES
again In faraway Manila | have seen
restaurant Mattresses, In their cool, olue
and white. big Powered kimonos, draw
/ ing crowds OF Americans TO the place by
their quaint prettinessi once more ]
have seen them, this time In Paris,
driving on the Bots, wearing costly
! ivory white French gowns and violet
| hats OF the latest artistic creation
| little Chinese page curled up In his yell
low robes at their feet, once more at
tracing many eyes. | have seen thenl
| too, In fashionable western high life,
receiving callers and accepting intro
ductlons with perfect grace and with
as much dignity as their tiny bodies
would hold-as much dignity as II they
had been six feet high
Yet, again. have known japanese
women in business, one keeping a tiny
cigar shop in her own home. and, as al
ways. charming customers to her win
her sweet temper and sprightliness; an
other the manager Of daily japanese
newspaper, "hustllng" out and gather
ing in advertisements from merchants
white, yellow and brown and achieving
as great success with her small paper
as any white American man could have
done. Last Of ALL think of 1t with
sadness-I have seen young japanese
women, semicaptives, tricked out IN
brilliant raiment, degraded soul and
body In Pacific coast cities OF the Unit
ed States.
Yet one and all, wherever you are,
artist or writer who knows you and
seeks to paint you with brush or pen
approaches you with gentle, loving
touch, o little pale brown women OF
Japan You know not western conven-
tionalities, but you are all the sweeter
and brighter for your ignorance OF some
OF them so we forgive you and love you
Just the same, You have not the faint
est notion that there Is immodesty IN
trayersng the streets without STOCK.
ings, nor Is there for you. bless your
tiny toesl II a handsome young man,
especially white man, so takes your
maiden fancy that you fall heartbreak'
ingly in love with him, you see no reason
why you should not at once propose 10
him and ask him TO marry you; nor
again, is there any reason, any reason |
at ALL why you should not, bless you!
AT Manila one OF the customers OF the
japanese restaurant was good looking |
young American. He had not lived long |
enough In that region to become entire
ly case hardened, so preserved some OF
the manly bashfulness which he took |
with him from his native-Chicago, let
us say The youngest and prettlest, the |
most innocent of the japanese waitress
es In the blue kimonos stamped with big |
peacock feathers, rested her sparkling, |
marrow sltted black eyes upon him, and |
Il stirred commotion In her gentle |
breast. She loved at once. apparently |
for the first time in her life-loved the |
young American. She gave him to know |
IL daily when she brought the tea and |
melon or whlsked about with the lace
like blue and pink paper serviettes.
She discovered that the youth she
loved was going to leave her. was about |
TO sail away south TO far Sulu, among |
the Moros and Mohammedan savages.
There was no time to be lost. Choosing |
an occasion when he was not beset by
cruel, guyng comrades. she made
known In tender accents. tears trem.
bling upon her dark lashes, the state of
her affections. Making no bones OF the |
matter, she begged to be allowed to be-
come his wife forthwith.
You are going far away" she muir
INJURED in the most fascinating, lmping
English. Take me with you as your
wife. win obey you in everything. |
will keep your house and care for you |
in all ways; only let me go with you, II |
you don't. shall never see you again. |
! will never be In your way, never give |
you trouble Only take mel
She looked like jeweled bulfnch in |
distress as she made her childish petit |
ton, so ridiculous, yet touching withal, |
that the young Chicagoan--or was II a /
hiadelphian-knew not whether to |