Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-29
WoRTD WIDE REVIEW OF ACHIEVEMENTS OF Men AND WOMEN
Says France Holds Power
TO Preserve Worlds Peace

s. Iroquois, he was much impressed by
the garb of the members Of the Samurai
class These japanese were called two
sworded" men for the reason that they
were privileged to wear two weapons.
one for the purpose oil inconveniencing
the enemy, the other for the purpose of
terminating their own careers. When
the Iroquois reached Japan" says Capt.
Mahan, "and throughout her stay. two
sworded men were as thick almost as
blackberries. To European PROPOSES
sions 1t was Illuminating to see half
dozen riding down a street, hatless,
crown of the head shaved, with a short
pigtail at the back tied near the skull,
and then brought stiffly forward c.ose
to the scalp; their figures gowned, the
handles of two swords projecting closely
from the left side of their garments, and
the feet resting in stirrups OF slipper
form, which my memory says were Of
straw work; but of that l am less sure.
This equipment was completed by a
painted fan stuck in the belt, and at
times an opened paper umbrella"
Berlin theaters pay their actors and
actresses and singers better than do
those OF Paris. In the fine arts budget
report in Paris list of salaries paid to
the principal artists at the subvention
theaters was this year given for the
ing by the public.
The German papers have answered by
giving a list of the salaries of some of
the leading German artists. Frau Emma
Destinn, the noted interpreter of Strauss
"Salome,' has just had her salary of
$1,000 raised to $1,000 year. The leading
tenor at the opera, Ernest Kraus, re-
ceives s11,5OO for six months as he tours
during the other six months.
1t is interesting to set against this the
salary of a Prussian minister, which is
only $4,000 a year.
Herr Adalbert- -Malkowsky of the The
ater Royal receives a yearly salary of
s10,000\ and about as much again for his
tours. The premier danseuse of the Ber-
lin opera, Frauen Antoinette Dell Era,
receives $500 year. The Metropole,
the Lessing and many other theaters pay
nearly as we'll.
Writing from Japan. an American
says: you must come here to appre-
ciate some of the quaint customs and
usages which contact with other peoples
! has not yet driven out. To read about
them gives you only poor idea. For
| instance, did you ever know what an inn
| portant thing a piece of string is here?
| The children, workmen. idlers. servants.
| all carry pieces of string for use in case
of emergency. With us the emergency
| would arise only when a parcel had to be
done up, but the Jap uses his pieces OF
string as a first aid to the injured. to
repair a rent in his clothing, to fix a
broken down jinrikisha. to mend his
tools, to take measurements and. in fact.
| the string is his universal tool chest
The queerest use to which ii is put. ac-
| cording to my way of thinking is when
| a police officer arrests a man, ties bit
i of string about the arrested name wrist
and then leads him by the loose end OF
the thin hempen fetter to the lookup
You ask: Why doesn't the Jap crook
break the string and find a gateway?
He could but he would not. That's
where his respect for the law comes in,
and the bit of string holds the man as
recurely as though he were manacled by
| our own humane chilled steel. nickel
plated and snap locked method