The Wichita daily eagle., 1901-05-05

u and this difference expresses
exactly the relative progress
attained by the two nations on ths Up
grade of modern civilization
In many situations 1 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 20 be stored IN t.
ships hold, kept up 10 their work by
taskmaster wearing even fewer clothes;
again. in faraway Manila l have seen
restaurant mattresses, in their cool. blue
and white, big lowered kimonos, draw
ing crowds Of Americans TO the place oy
their quaint prettiness; once more 1
have seen them, this time IN Paris.
driving on the BOis. wearing costly
ivory white French gowns and violet
hats of the latest artistic creation,
little Chinese page cUrIed up in his yell
low robes at their feet, once more at
tracing many eyes. have seen them.
too. in fashionable western high life,
receiving callers and accepting intro
ductioBs 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
wavs. charming customers to her with
her sweet temper and sprightliness; an
other the manager OF a daily japanese
newspaper. .'hustling' out and gather
ing in advertisements from merchants
white. yellow and brown and achieving
as great success with her small paper
as anv white American man could have
done. Last CT ALL think of it 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. 0 little pale brown women ot
Japani You know not western conven-
tionalities. but you are all the sweeter
and brighter for your ignorance Of some
of them; 50 we forgive you and love you
lust the same. You have not the faint
est notion that there is immodesty IN
traversing the streets without stock
ings nor is there for you. bless your
tiny toesr II a handsome young man.
especially a white man, so takes your
maiden fancy that you fall heartorsak-
! ingly in love with him. you see no reason
why YOU should not at once propose 10
him and ask him 10 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
Jsnanese restaurant was a good looking
voIIns American. He had not lived long
/ enough in that region to become entire
/ " case hardened, so preserved some OF
/ the manly bashfulness which he took
with him from his native-Chicago, LET
us saw. The youngest and pTettest, the
most innocent of the Japanese waitress
e IN the blue kimonos stamped with big
naacoclx. feathers, rested her sparkling
narrow sIitted black eyes upon him, and
il stirred commotion in her gentle
breast. She loved at once. apparently
for the hrst time in her life-ioved the
Young American. She gave him 20 know
If daily when she brought the tea anc
melon or whisked about with the lace
like blue and pink paper serviettes-
She discovered that the youth sh'
loved was going TO leave her. was abou
N sail away south TO far Sulu. amonl
the Moros and Mohammedan savages
There was no time 10 be lost Choosing
an occasion when he was not beset by
cruel. guying comrades. she mad
known in tender accents. tears trem
bling upon her dark lashes. the state o
her affections. Making no bones Of n
matter. she begged 70 be allowed 10 be
come his wife forthwith.
You are going far away" she mur
INJURED In the most fascinating. Impini
English. Take me with you as you
I wife. will obey you in everything
will keep your house and care for yo
in all ways; only let me go with you.
YOU don't. shall never see you agar
f I will never be in your way, never CIV
; you trouble Only take me-"
) She looked like a jeweled bullfinch :
distress as she made her childish peti
r ton, so ridiculous. yet touching witha
J that the young Chicagoan-or was II
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