Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-11-30
ATTRACTIVE MRS. HAToYAMA.
She Is In This Country with Her Husband
to Attend the Yale HI CentnninI.

New York Journal: New Haven-More
interesting perhaps than any OF the dis
tinguished foreigners who will attend
Yale's bi-centennial celebration are MIR.
and Mrs. Kauzua Hatoyama of Japan,
who have just arrived here from Washing
ton and are the guests Of Prof. Laid. Mr..
Hatoyama, who was graduated from
Yale in 1881, is speaker OF the Japanese
house Of representatives, and head Of the
"Semmon Sakko," the great law school
of the state.
Mrs. Hatoyama, as dainty as the porce-
lain Of her native land, as refreshing as
the snow that caps the mountains, is yet
an advanced woman-for Japan. She
speaks English brokenly, and CONVERSE
ton with her In that tongue is carried on
through her husband.
II am much mortified" she said, ''by n
statement In a newspaper that we forgot
an appointment with President Roosevelt
to dine with him in the white house. The
statement Is the more distressing because
OF the very strict ideas japanese women
have OF etiquette and social obligations"
Her husband then gave the facts of the
incident in Washington, saying;
THE secretary OF the japanese legation
called at the white house and saw Mr..
Loeb, President Roosevelt's secretary.
The secretary said 1 would be glad to see
President Roosevelt. The president in
vited us to dine with him at 7:30 o'clock.
Afterward Mr.. Loeb wrote to the secre-
tary that, because Of some change in the
presidents plans, he would prefer that
for our luncheon, and so were unable to
go TO the white house for the meal. 1t is
humiliating 10 think that we should be
accused of forgetting to dine with the
greatest official in the United States.
II called on the president and he as
sured me he would be glad to meet me on
the platform at Yale in two weeks, when
we both should receive the same honor
from that university, the degree Of Doc
tor of Laws"
The observant, Mrs. Hatoyama, has
been in Seattle, Chicago, New York and
Washington, and told some OF her i'm
pressions:
Your official buildings are very small.
as compared with your business buildings
and the dwellings Of your m~illianaires. In
Japan the official buildings are the great
ones.
Before I came to this country was
told your leading men had little time but
10 AUNT for the almighty dollar 1 am
glad to find this is not true. Every man
my husband has introduced me to has
been most polite and kind. / will take
pains to tell the japanese women so when
/ go home"
turning more directly to the women OF
Japan, this flower of women said:
II am director of four organizations for
the betterment OF my countrywomen and
am the founder of two. 1 take the great
est interest in the Dia Nippon Jogak
Kwai.' the Women's Educational Cores
pondence society,
This is for the benefit OF young women
who come to the city and, after receiving
a grammar school education. have no fur
Their opportunity to pursue their studies.
Il regret that the position Of women
among the educated classes of Japan IS
not better understood. 1t is as high as
among American women. Before / left
for this country the federated women's
society OF Japan gave me a complimentary
dinner, which called together women of
the same type and prominence as would
meet for a similar occasion In Europe or
America.
Il hope the national dress of Japan will
be modified so that it will meet the need
OF our club women. The women OF the
Toxic Women's Dress Reform society. to
which l belong, wear a garment which is
similar to the American skirt, In add
tion to the Japanese costume