The sun., 1907-03-10
LITTLE LADIES FROM JAPAN.
QUICK TO ADOPT OUR Ways WHEN
THEY COME HERE.

NOS Only do They Dress Like Native New
.M Workers but They Are AlsO Enthuai-
natic Club women "A Colony Of ThSm
Here Of Recent GrOwth--TeA Rites.
Not until within the last Eve years can
New York be said to have possessed a
Japanese colony which included among it's
members many. women Of high social stand
ing in Japan; but to-day such colony
exists. One by one dainty little women
In the Orient have forsaken their cherry
blossom groves to join their husbands
who are engaged in business here
~ II is a pretty society that they constitute
and somewhat exclusive. But while with
few exceptions the Japanese women have
not mixed TO a great extent with Americans.
~ has not been because OF a preference for
their own social set. but more from a sense
0f shyness and the lack OF opportunity.
Indeed these Japanese ladies have as a rule
shown an eager desire TO become initiated
into the mysteries Of American ways and the
moment they set foot on American soil
n they adopt American customs.
A few japanese merchants have been
engaged In business here in New York for
the last twenty years. Among the japanese
women, Mrs Arai, who lives at Riverside.
Conn, is the pioneer for she has been a
resident of this country for more than
cighteen years.
Her home is furnished in American fash
Ion, save for the presence Of curios such
~ are not commonly met with here. Her
family consists Of two children, a boy about
10. Who is preparing soon to enter Yale.
and a younger daughter who is attending
private school at Greenwich, Conn. Brown
as berries and Japanese in appearance. the
children are otherwise like Americans and
with their many American playmates they
q are devoted 10 all the sports which healthy
young children enjoy in this country. Just
4 now skating and tobogganing are the delight
OF their idle hours.
Mrs. Arai like all japanese mothers. has
devoted herself so assduously to the raising
Of her family and the companionship Of her
husband that she has not been active at
club meetings, but she enjoys a large social
4eoquaintance among the summer colony at
Riverside on the Sound. II should be e1-
I planned here that Japanese women are apt
TO be earnest and enthusiastic members
Aof women's clubs.
Mrs. Kenji Imanishi. next to Mrs Arai.
shas lived in New York the longest OF any
tof the Japanese women. She has become
adentihed with wOmen's club movements
has well as with philanthropic enterprises,
and her influence not only upon her own
lcountrywomen but also upon the American
1rwomen with whom she has come in contact
<hAs been marked. She was educated in
kHonolulu. where she spent several years
gbefore she came with her husband to New
York. She speaks English perfectly
Mrs. Imanishi 10 a member OF the WO4en's
Rreas Club and Of the Vassar Students Aid
Bociety. She gives much Of her time TO the
Wascal Institute in which Mrs. Russell Sage
Ga interested. but it is. perhaps. the inmates
,suf an institution for the deaf and dumb who
are nearest Mrs. Imanishi's heart. She
mot only spends much time among them.
shut is always ready TO spread the gospel OF
rlend a hand outside.
To Mrs Imanishi Is given the credit Of
,sending friend and countrywoman Of hers.
lAfrs. Katsudi OF Toxic. back to her homo
,ust after the Russian-Japanese war with
pome q. 900 OF American money. contributed
Thy the women OF New York, for the benefit
pof a girls school in Toxic designed 20 educate
bthose who were orphaned by the war
a Not long ago the shoppers in the Vicinity
AoR Twenty-third street were surprised by
the appearance Of a dainty little Nipponese
woman In the shops clad In her native attire.
She wore nothing on her head and her
quaint gown Of brown figured stuff and her
obi Of bright colors made her the observed
of all observers.
IL wasn't 30 much idle curiosity either.
but love for the picturesque that attracted
the attention Of the women shoppers to her.