Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-03-15
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lot Of cockeyed ideas about women. The Japs
seem TO think womans place is in the doghouse Tbs
makes II nice, of course, for thinking only OF Their
selfish pleasures. but it makes womans lot hard
This lot is not made any just because she
share it, If her husband wealthy with several Of
his concubines living In the same house with her, and
each Of whom probably enjoys more favors than the law
full wife
Although missionaries and few Jap leaders have
tried to better the lot OF the genter especially wives
not much has been accomplished The old quascIEi"us
traditions. which the Jap like 10 keep gong
order to preserve their liberties and ease still
persist and the Of Nippon truly lead dogs life
ways than
Many Of the young girls sold 10 become wives
and have nothing To say about 1T. But they might
well not complain for they lucky not To be sold FOR
less moral purposes by their father. by older
brother When Jap family needs extra money 10
buy sake. rce-whsIy the head Of the house looks
the daughters if he farmer sizing 'p
his cattle decides which one would be best to sell and
hunts buyer who If he likes the girls looks will take
her off her fathers hands for a fair price.
And, If a man is too poor TO afford even fraction
OF the 50 concubnes that Prince Ito had land which the
government stlll likes to denyl he can at least get
few hours entertainment from a maiden who been
sold into geisha by her father All he needs is few
yen cash and the yen indulge himself The yen
in cash may not be on hand when The other yen strikes
him bat that Is 40 handicap at all in land Wh'te
women treated animals and animals looked
upon as reincamatons at people
The laps cannot understand why other races not
equally practical TIE thought Of a being faith
fu and to his stn strikes the little brown
man as queer notion of those unenghtened white folks
across the
midde-aged and his learned first.
hand experience about other ways in which the Jap me
keep women IN Che doghouse The sightseeing couple
boarded crowded little trolley in Tokyo a young
Jap got up to offer his seat When the tired woman
started down her smile n acceptance changed
bewlderment when the Jap excitedy pulled away.
She did not realize that the seat intended for her
husband the older man Iaps do not offer seats TO
ladies, matter how OLD tired they may he. Women
have to take back This idea Of ladies' first is
another undesirable notion Of the white folks II is
first, last and always The women not last
they just ignored
The affectionate term used by the Jap husband in
referring MS wife call her the foolish person
who the room"
The Japs wife is also looked down upon by all her
husbands relatives As Iacadio ean. the distinguished
student Of their customs described IT. the best that
be said is that they look her girl who has
been adopted To get work done cheapy Hama yome,
adopted they call her
When a brde-tobe leaves her own family to join the
husband whom she sold, her family have
special services for her funeral services in which they
solemnly sweep the rooms light a death-frc
the gate When she is married her family looks
upon her as beng dead and she might almost well
be She is just another head of stock to her lord and
master.
rhe Jap women arc divorced a. easily as they
wed They be divorced the slightest preext and
with the greatest OF ease missionary had one OF these
place with he trying TO cvilzc. The
reverends milkman morning returned his wife to
parents with other abruptly divorc-
ing than that hc disliked her mother 1t seemed
the wifes mother yakamash the milkman said
meaning she talked too much SO they keep the
mothers-naw in the doghouse too In the land Of the So
Sdreu Rising Sun.
lie Jap women have for centuries had a proverb Of
th,u which summarizes their plight: "A woman
house of her own in the Three Universes 4
No house of her except the doghouse.
little yellow men have nothing TO lose by
marriage get of by flick of the finger
Americans what perverted streak In their nature
makes them grin and utter this proverb while you
tfhce plnts Of rce bran left do not become
a ,on-lnIaw.' Perhaps this for the pointed
by anhropologsts that IT may be as for Jap
man to become fond of another he does of a
At any event. real love is something that almost
never casts shadow the door of the doghousc
niAh hn kocns his MOmcn