Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-04-18

sunshine Is "nlkko," which IL also th'
| name Of beautiful mountain rehor
| that we visited last fall, whore tn,
| emperor has his summer residence
| "Nlkku. the city Of temples"
And last-this very night, wdntet
TO tell the girl that we would hay,
| four extra 20 supper, Tour boys ant
told her we would have a dead mar
FOR supper Four in the Chinese nu.
merals Is sh and IN the Japanese nu.
merals Il is yotsu,
We have 10 learn both for they are
used Unfortunately II seems to me
and instead Of using the contraction 20
MIN for four persons | said shi min,
which means a dead man.
A BURGLAR SCARE.
BY the way, our servants name Is
"Haru," which means spring Mrs.
Nirayama's name is "Yukl,' snow, and
her younger sisters Is "Yaye," cherry
blossom. and 70 be polite YOU place o
before the name and san after II and
you have 'the honorable Miss Spring
etc. / am afraid | have wearied you
with such Japanese letter but | feel
as though ! were stepped in Japanese
II runs through my head night and day,
and Mary talks Japanese in her sleep
sometimes The other night she sat up
in bed ana said In a loud voice. Nan
des ka?" We had had a burglar scare
the night before and ! thought surely
a japanese had got hold OF her and she
was asking him what was the matter,
so / Joined IN, raped on the wall aud
had everybody In the house awake. The
night before, though, some OF the rest
thought they had the burglar. The
'kuuma,' was awakened first, hei
heard a man trying TO open his win
dow then the "kuruma' woke Brother
and Sister Ensign. 'Sho are down
stairs Alma came out Of his bedroom,
which Is in the japanese quarter, and
finally Brother NakazaWa, our Japan
csc convert, who lives In the Japanese
part also appeared on the scene with
q lantern and a sword but the burglar
was nowhere to be seen.
PLEASANT FRIENDS.
You may wonder II we have anything
but japanese acquaintance over here,
and ! VIII tell you Of a very pleasant
visit We had Christmas eve. We were
invited to Yokohama TO visit Mrs. and
Miss Bagnal the later having come
over on the "Kaga Maru" with us from
America, They are very wealthy peo-
pie, their house was a curlo shop IN It.
self almost, It seems they have been
collecting oddities for years, and while
should not feel easy with so many
Dragons all over they certainly had
everything that wealth could obtain
and II was quite favor conferred on
as, we thought, and appreciated 1t very
much. There was a large party. and a
Christmas tree with a present for each
lne, but the Mormon" colony were the
'avored guests, being the only ones in.
Jited to dinner Mrs. b. is a charming
ady and made us feel perfectly at
rome from the time We first entered her
ioor. They returned our call a week
'r two ago and while we could not
entertain them as they had US we were
'ery much pleased to have them come.
We asked them TO have "tinln" as IL Is
allied here-.luncheon--w us, and
hey said Nov, don't go TO bit of
rouble, just a cup Of teal" Now. we
although In Japan. have
Tot had a speck of tea in the house
ince we came here. and there was lust
moments embarrassment on both
ides, but we soon came to an under
tanding and everything was on as
ordial g footing as among out own In
innate friends.
JAPANESE THEATERs