The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-21

its kind. The popular Geisha, like the
popular actress, is much courted.
No Japanese could understand THE
Second Mrs. Tanqueray." Ladies with
pasts get married every day there;
their pasts are no objection, but they
have to be pasts when they marry; in
that divorce-mongering land Caesars
wife ceases to be a wife if she is not
above suspicion.
1t is hard for Europeans to take the
Geishas seriously for all their accom-
plishments. They look like children,
and are children-when they are not
cats. 1t is easy to recognize the
Geisha; she looks like an angel with
wings of rich brocade, a chalk face,
geranium lips, and flowers in her
glossy hair. The Geisha may often be
seen in rikshas with their duennas.
The houses in the Yoshiwara are glori-
fed tea-houses, and may be used as
such. They remind one of the Arabian
Nights.
But tea houses are apt to be lovely;
1t is their business, except those which
go in for the dull responsibility of be-
ing inns. A tea-house isn't tea
total. 1t is generally not a house at
all. but a garden full Of summer
houses and quite often consists of
nothing but a roof and a view. You
can never get to a view in Japan with
out passing through a tea-house, and
your way is blocked by gay little
mousmees who rub their knees to-
gether and bow and hiss their respects
and give you tea.
They don't sell it, but you give them
a Chai-dai tea-present - three-half-
pence (worth only -farthings)
for five cups of tea, and you needn't
"a I1.-r l.
do with the tea that isn't drunk in ia
pan; 1t doesn't seem to go back - the
pot for the next persons, who won't
drink it either. Perhaps tea-plants are
kept in a good Iiumor by having the
tea put back in the soil. AS the tea
shed is built across the path, this pref
ty performance is a toll.
Beautiful as Dreams.
dreams of coming into fortunes. They
may be in the Chinese style with ma
sonry ornaments like that described
below: they may have exquisite old
wooden terraces overhanging at lake
with the sacred mountains Fujiyama
staring at them like house to let; or
they may be themselves overhung with
fragrant lavender wistaria blossoms
four feet long, which sweep the wa
tiers of a river in the midst of a gay
capital; they may be dear little dolls
houses, built OF odorous unpainted pine
wood, and planted in retired corner
Of paradise like the point of Toni Okla.
The dolls are always there, pretty
little nousmees, who take off your
boots to prevent your spelling the
deep. soft. prinose-colored mating or
kicking. the house down when you
grow impatient. Time IL a snail IN ia
pan There Is a tea-hOuse in every
Temple. run by the priests. II Euro
pesns go there. they sell other things
stronger than tea. 'Rlkshaboys' tea
houses you always have with you on
the great high roads. Almost any
house may turn fes-b0use or shop
among the lower class japanese.
Delightful ~ those fhatche9 beive-
deres are. where you pay your tea
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nothing . foFeiRref enjoys ~ much aa
the tea house with Chinese gardens.
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