The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1908-05-28

Talk about masculine superiority said the
globe-trotter. you ought to see the way women
greet a man guest in Japan. There's nice fellow
In Tokyo whom | used to know He In San
Francisco few years ago. but he went back to
take up his fathers business Well l invited
to his house In Tokyo. Say, you ought to have
seen the way Mrs Furugawa saluted me! She
sweet little creature, not really pretty, but gen.
tie and dainty and all that sort of thing. Well sir.
she went down her knees and crossed her hands
on the floor and bowed her head down to touch
the mating. felt like grinnng idol Furugawa
ought to have told her not to, or else he ought to
have given her warning so might have gone down
on my own knees; but as it was I'd idea what
she was going to do there stood like wooden
image of heather god, and she thinking all the
time what beastly manners Americans have
You've no idea what an idiot 1t made feel. What
I'm used TO at home is having sterny aggressive
American woman deliberately glare at in a
street car till give her my seat"
1T hard you" said the hostess with
twinkle in her eye Il remember you of old at
dancing school, and how you used to hate even that
mild ordeal"
Boys always hate bowling and scraping But
girls seem to take to it like ducks to water"
Alas, not all of u.s." put in plump and jolly
young matron while in London last year
] was presented to Queen Alexandra. To tell the
truth, really had supposed | knew how to make
suitable curtsey, but my friend Eileen Tanning.
who gave me various points beforehand, made me
practice over and over while she criticised 1t all
you those rehearsas were all that saved from
dying of modification the floor of buckingham
palace If you fancy it's easy to make very, very
low sweeping curtsey, almost to the very floor
again and again and again, gracefully retiring dur
ing the process and not getting trpped up by the
longest train you ever had chance to wear-weI,
Just try 1t yoursef!"
AT least, you did know what expected OF
you. and had time to prepare for it," said the
traveller. ITS when you run up against some
expected kind OF salutation that you're lost | saw
a funny sight once on the pier here just |
landing from one of the Hamburg American boats.
There was a big bearded Russian on board coming
over to visit relations other and when he
walked down the gangplank there were two young
people waiting for him, pretty GIRL evidently
Russian, and a young fellow who wasn't Russian at
all but spoke English and looked as il he hailed
from the state of Maine. Well, the with the
beard fell upon the pretty girl If he'd
anything good before guessed he Uncle
Niklovitch something of that sort. And when
he had kissed Olga on both pink cheeks, didn't he
Just grab the stiff, shy Yankee fellow and kiss him,
too! Yes, sir, first cheek and then the
other. Just as IL he'd been waiting sweetheart.
That poor fellow from Aroostook county Grim
son to his ears when Uncle Niklovitch gave him
parting bear-hug and set him free. suppose he'd
never in all his life Russian men kiss each
other-but he'll see more If he marries the pretty
girl as | guess he means to-"
Hard New England man." suggested