Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-06-26
n. w. C. A. ADVENTURE CLUB GETS
THANKS FROM JAPANESE Girl S

Members OF the Adventure club OF
The Y. w C. A. are enjoying let
ter acknowledging and thanking
! them for the arrival OF Miss Betty
Jean Adventure" the tiny messenger
OF good Will and friendliness sent to
Japan by the young girl members or
:he club. Anyone who can read
Japanese is asked to give a few
moments to transiating the letter as
the girls are very anxious to know
what the Japanese girls thought OF
their doll. However, letter i'll
English accompanies The Japanese
,etter and While it is not a trans
lation it is a real thank you let
! Ter"
Gay in a red flannel coat and with
la simple but complete American
/ school girls wardrobe, Miss Betty
Jean arrived in japan the latter
part OF February where in company
viii. {. number OF other IDOL mes
sengcTs of good will" She was "es-
corted with great ceremony to the
i American embassy and from there on
70 large "city hall" Not at all
aWed by the important people around
| 1lCI, JllC HAIlCLACetl4 GILL
I bassador and representatives of the
Japanese government, she sat quiet
}!y du%ing the singing OF the Jap
aneSe and American anthems and
! her introduction to six Japanese
princesses. until she was handed to
Snigeo Hetachi San" or to Little
Miss Shigeo Hatchi who repre-
sented the common school OF Nj
rayama.
Following is the letter signed by
Miss Shigeo:
"My dear friends:
"We very much appreciate the
presence OF your DOL Messenger OF
Friendship in Our school, whom the
department OF education was kind
enough to send to us. we also
heartily appreciate the message the
doll has brought to us--thc message
of good will and friendship. we
have the pleasure to say how happy
and grateful we are at welcoming
ycur nice anG attractive doll.
"You may be sure that Tie doll
will be our guest on our Festival
Day OF Dolls, the third C1 MarciI,
and be q permanent member OF the
doll family OF our school. We as
sure you that we shall take every
possible care of her so that the doll
may not feel hoInesick.
Yours sincerely,
| iSigned) "CHIGEO HETACHI.",
For the school mates OF this schooD.
The "Doll Messenger" proiect was
sponsored by tile committee on
4 Friendship Among Children OF the
Federal Council OF the churches or
Christ in An!emea and very largo
number of groups OF girls and In
dividuals look part in it. A grea5
deal of interest was aroused in Japan
as we'll as IN This country over the
project and warm feeling OF
/! friendliness encouraged over this
! Joint keeping OF the well-loved Fes-
| tiyal of EollS OF Japan. Among
! those taking part were a number OF
7 Y. w. g. A. Gin Reserve ard other
4 groups; where Worldwide frielldllneSs
Ils particularly stressed. Miss Dor
/, otlly Armstrongswa president OF the
I Adventure club (which sent the doll
mentioned in the above letter and
Miss Ruth Miescher advisor to the
/ club.
| Al. interesting account OF the
ceremony of reception Of the dolls is
that contained in q letter to the
; DeniSon Girl Reserves OF Cleveland,
| O., from a Japanese Girl Reserve
who was present. The letter is not
q translation bur is just as she her
self wrote it, in English:
Dear Girl Reserves:
every third OF March we have a
most pleasant time because, since
long sago there has been the Dolls
Festival in Japan, and all the girls
wait anxiously for its coming. We
have had merry times on the days
of that Dolls Festival, bat there
has been none that the girls OF
Japan have awaited Sc eagerly as
this years festival when the Ameri-
"an dolls were to be with us, We
were all very glad when we heard
that the American girls sent us
many many pretty dolls.
'On the third OF March I went tc
Nippon Seinenkaikan, where the OF
1icial reception was held, TO well
ccme those dolls that, you gave us.
At 2 o'clock all 1ne seats were filled
with japanese school girls and lad
lies. Six princesscs were present and
after the ceremony went up to the
pls tiorln to look at the American
dolls.
"Fhe reception began with the
national anthems OF America and
Japan On the platform were seated
the American ambassador and rep
Iresentatives of Japanese government
and other important people. AT the
back of the platform were set two
"hinadan" which are the little steps
on which we put our dolls. There
are five of them and they are COW
CreG with red carpet. On the high
est step we put dolls to represent
the emperor and empress and two
lauIer lanterns, Cne at each end.
On the second step there are threa
court ladies and two ministers, and
on the third, five musicians and
artificial cherry and orange trees.
The two lowest steps are filled with
all kinds CT appurtenances and food
for the dolls.
BY and by 48 american girls, each
carrying 3. DOLL and the same num-
Der Of japanese girls came out on