The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-05-22
Greetings of an expansive German for an
embarrassed American officer.

Talk about masculine superiority" said the
globe-trotter, you ought to see the way women
greet man guest in Japan. There's nice fellow
IL TOKYO whom | used to know. He was in San
FRANCISCO few years ago, but he went back to
take up his fathers business. Well, | was invited
to his house in Tokyo SayNeyou ought to have
seen the way Mrs Furugawa saluted me! She was
sweet little creature, not really pretty but gen.
tie and dainty and all that sort of thing Well, sir
she went down on her knees and crossed her hands
On 1he moor and bowed her head down to touch
the mating. felt like grinning idol. Furugawa
ought to have told her not to- or else he ought to
nave given her warning so might have gone down
on my own knees; but as it was Id no idea what
she was going to do, so there stood like a wooden
image OF heather god and she thinking all the
Time what beastly manners Americans have
touVe no Idea what an idiot it made me feel What
III useo 10 at home is having sternly aggressive
american woman deliberately glare at me in a
street car till give her my seat"
1t was hard on YOU said the hostess, with
twinkle in her eye 81 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 1t like ducks to water"
Alas' not all OF us" put in plump and jolly
young matron; while we were in London last wear
truth, really had supposed knew how to make
suitable curtsey, but my friend Eileen Tanning,
VINO gave me various points beforehand, made me
pracuce over and over while she criticised If all
seemed TOO absurd for anything but really assure
you those rehearsals were all that saved me from
uvlng OF moru1cation on the floor of Buckingham
pdiace IL you fancy it's easy to make verv verv
4ow' sweeping curtsey almost to the verv floor
again and again and again, gracefully retiring dur.
ing the process and not getting trpped I'D by the
longest train you ever had chance to wear-well
just try it YOURSELF"
AT least, you did know what was expected Of
you, ard had time to prepare for it." said the
traveller It's When you run up against some I'm.
expected kind OF saluation that you're lost, I saw
funny sight once On the pier here Just as was
landing from one OF the Hamburg American boats
There was big, bearded Russian on board coming
over to visit some relations or other and when he
walked down the gang plank there were two Young
people waiting for him, pretty girl evidently
Russian, and young fellow who wasn't Russian at
all but spoke English and looked as if he hailed
from the state of Maine. Well, the one with the
beard fell upon the pretty girl as if he'd never seen
anything so good before-I guessed he was Uncle
Niklovitch or 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 on one cheek and then on the
other Just as IL he'd been a waiting sweetheart
That poor fellow from Aroostook county was 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 seen Russian men kiss each
other-but he'll see more II he marries the pretty
girl as ] guess he means to-"
Hard on New England man" suggested a