The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1908-10-17
OLD Friendships
have Been Renewed
yankees of the Orient" Are Spread.
ing Themselves for the Yankee Wis
itors From Across the Big Waters,
Their Guests.
Hearst News Service.

Yokohama, october 17.-Hospitality
is characteristic trait of the Japan
csc, but seldom before has that quality
been so much in evidence as at present.
The little brown men and women of
Nippon, who pride themselves on be-
ing "the Yankees of the Orient" en-
terrain a tremendous admiration for
the people of the United States. While
some differences have married this feel
ing of cordially in the past, all Is
now forgotten and forgiven and during
the coming week the Yankee tars will
be entertained in a novel and lavish
manner that will doubtless make every
man jack Of the American fleet a de-
voted admirer of the Japanese.
The people of Yokohama are not for
getful that 1t was Commodore Perry
who came here in 1854 and planted the
seeds Of progress in Japan, and that
the harvest has been the most wonder
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history. Men gifted with the genius of
leadership have carved out empires
over night, but they were moved by
motives of personal ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
and the masses have not been consid-
cred in their plans. In Japan the
change from medieval empire to a
modern nation, rapid although it has
been, has made chonge in which a
large portion of the people, from the
lowest to the highest, has shared
Since 1854 when Perry anchored off
the town and the people of Nippon
obtained their first knowledge of the
great republic over which the starry
banner waves, Yokohama has been the
gateway of Japan and the port of
Toxic. Although the city has become
largely modernized, the harbor scene
presented to the eyes of Uncle Sans
sailors, is novel and strange. 1t is a
kaleidoscope of strangely shaped junks.
with sails of unimaginable colors, and
filled with men and women who talk
strange language, and wear bright
colored garments. The smiling de-
meanor of the people, their holiday ap-
parel and the lazy motion of their odd
looking crafts give the scene an i'm
preston of unreality to the beholder
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appearance of an American harbor.
Seen from the bay, the European
houses and business buildings tower
above the one-story native houses,
scarcely noticeable behind them. On
landing, the only noises are those of
many people talking a strange Ian
guage and the rattle of rickishas. A
rickisha drawn by collie will lead the
visitor through narrow streets running
between small, at-roofed houses with
windows made of latticework and oiled
paper
If he desires to enter a house. let
him not forget, whatever else he may
DO to leave his shoes at the door.
Japanese homes, as well as the native
inns, are furnished with soft mats in
place of chairs, sofas and tables and
it would be quite as great an indignity
to walk with ones shoes upon the
Immediately clean mats of a Japan
csc home as to put ones feet upon the
chair or couch of European. When
a japanese wishes to move from one
room to another he does not open a
door, but slides aside a portion of the
wall.
Soon after the arrival of his guest
he will call in Japanese to a quiet, self
effacing little being viii might, from
her diffident manner, be considered a
servant, but who is simply introduced