The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-15
LIVE TOPICS About TOWN.

Every time the papers say something
about 'Japs' it hurts the Japanese people, >
said n japanese yesterday. We call gu
country Nippon. pronounced in the Japanese
tongue 'Nihon,' and a Japanese man is
.Nihonjin.' Foreigners say Japanese and
japan because they don't know how to
pronounce the real words.
But whom they call us 'Japs' we be-
lleve that il i a term OF derision, just as
you speak of colored people as 'coons,'
and all cultivated Japanese hate the term.
None OF the foreigners living in Japan
would think OF insulting us by using the
abhreviation.
TN Japan we call all white people
,sayojin,,, which means Western men
Sayojin is a most respectful word. But
there liz another that was used before
we became what the Western world
calls civilized; that word means foreign
devil That is a very impoiite word, and
! hope the time will never come whom it will
become popular again in Nippon"
What l want" said the top Aatter who
was buying groceries, "s some brown
sugar. Got any?"
The clerk said he had and sifted out 4
shovelful OF sugar into the tray.
Hold on a minute said the top fiatter.
That isn't brown sugar. It's the kind
you fellows all over town have been trying
TO sell me for brown sugar, but it ism I
brown; it's a pale, whitish, sickly yellow.
What I call brown & is the kind mother
used to sweeten the pies with when I was a
kid. Don't you remember II? 1t was dark
and coarse grained and full Of humps as big
as YOU fist. There was more of the con-
those Jumps than in a whole shovelful Of
this yellow stun, and after a fellow Rad
sneaked a chunk of il out OF the barrel and
crawled on under the back stairs and gobbled
IL in secret he was fairly oozing syrup at
want. Got anyp"
mo, sir, " said the clerk, I'VE don't keep
H.. It is very old fashioned. There is
only a little Of it put on the market
The top flatter sighed. Il understand
now" he said, why 30 many cakes and
pies and preserves don't taste right
Allessandro Bonci. The new tenor of the
Manhattan Opera House, il the smallest
singer who has ever appeared before the
local public, In spite of high heels and
every other aid to increased stature he is
barely FIVE feet high. IN spite of this draw
back Signor BonCi is one Of the two most
famous tenors in Europe. The other IL
rivalry among them may be understood
from the fact that Signor Bonci. who had
booked his passage on the same steamer
with Signor Caruso, refused to sail when
TIC Itttllfu tttI LH COLlItlTlOl was dN|O
to he a passenger. Because, " as his agent
wrote TO Oscar Hammeretein "Sigor
Bon says that although the Americans
have big ships there never was yer built
one big enough to hold ms and Signor
Caruso."
Tea drinkers are finding scant encourage
mcnt in n report recently made by a large
tea exporting house in Yokohama TO its
American customers. Incidentally il indi-
Gates that the United States il not alone
in facing increased cost OF living. The
report says, Owing 70 the rapidly inCTeas-
ing cost OF living in Japan labor costs more,
and i'll Consequence cultivation OF the tea
gardens is less generous and extensive
than formerly, aud less care and skill are
expended in picking and curing the leaf.
Hence the average quality OF the teas now
offered for sale is below that Of seasons
prior to the war, and for the same reasons
we are not likely in the future TO see any
reversion to the excellence OF former years.
These changes are the inevitable results
Of new conditions that are affecting many
of the old industries Of Japan
Il wish" said the young housekeeper,
that somebody would explain to me the
mystery Of apples. | Tead in the news
papers a few days ago that such enormous
shipments were being made to New York
w NAi'N NbS $3.50 w nv "
any more cars to enter the town; yet l have
70 pay five cents apiece for choice apples.
IL zee bushels OF apples lying on the
ground every time l 20 to Jersey or up
into Westchester. or anywhere else in the
country around New York.
Who is responsible to us consumers
and forcing us to pay these high prices
for fruit that ought to be cheap"
The theatre ticket spectators who follow
the fortunes of a popular Broadway success
which is selling seats for many weeks in
advance are sometimes hard put to IL
TO find the necessary capital. When the
Christmas week seats for this show we're
placed on sale one Spectator had all his
available cash invested in Thanksgiving
Day tickets. He tried to borrow. without
success, 10 he went to a pawnshOp and
put up his Thanksgiving seats. With the
cash he stocked up on Christmas week
seats and then pawned them and redeemed
his Thanksgiving Day tickets.
News or plays aud Players.