Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 21, 1924, Page 19

-SUNDAY, DECEMBER 21. GIRLS ON (Continuee rrom Page One.) as strahge creatures, with nothing to ‘recommend them but their money. After all the Japanese of Sendai have no monopoly on this idea, because tourists are regarded as fair game most everywhere. “A few minutes after 5 we saw ke Kasumiga Ura ahead. of us to the right. It is only about forty- five miles north of Tokio, and we had come all the way south from Hitokappu, @ distance of 900 miles, in this one day, There must have been £0,000 or 30,000 people vaiting lg, Among them various heads ef the imperial government, gen erals; admirals, representatives from and dign, from: many other countries “Long concrete runways extended out into the Jake and led up to a stone pier, Where the vast throng waited to give us the first big r ception that we had had since le: ing Seattle. There were three of these runways, and motor boats came out to tow one plane along- elde each. As we approached: the pler at this Japanese naval air base, the people waved flags, thousands of them, and shouted “bonzi,’. They sheuted as though they really meant it. There were photographers in front of us, photographers to the left of us, photographers to the right of us, behind us, on” platforms, on poles, and even on the roofs. There also were flocks of newspaper corre- spondents from ail parts of the world—French scribes with beards, Englishmen with monocles, and Americans with straw hats and horn rimmed glasses. As the recep- tion committee led us through the throng the Japanese patted us on the. backs and kept on shouting “‘bonazi.” “There were thousands of frail looking little Japanese women in their fancy kimonos and sashes, vith their hair piled up on their heads so neatly. For variety and color we had never seen anything lke it. And their smiles—ah, we knew we were going to like Japan! After coming down out of the Arctic, it was indeed a beautiful picture. “After the formal reception, which we were most cordially wel- comed by the high officials, and after we had made our planes fast for the night, we were taken to the Japanese naval air service club nearby, and each assigned a sopa- yate room and an orderly. Our quarters were just_as modern as a at 1924 VISIT TO JAPAN New York hotel, special cooks pre- pared Amer.can -dishes for us, ani as for service, it was the last word. 4c seems that there were quite number of English aviators here right after the war, teaching the Japanese how to fly. The club was built at that thine. “We had been up since midnight and had flown 900 miles in eleven hours. So we were very tired. But after dining with the Japanese ot- ficers, when we retired to our rooms we were handed the first mail from home that we had received. So it was just like heaven to us. I can’t exactly explain it, but coming down from the Arctic to Japan was like IT imagine a cat feels coming out of the cold into a warm room, curling up before a fireplace, stretching ana going to sleep. “Much as we all wanted to see Tokio, we spent all of the next day getting the planes ready so that w could overhat: them, checking over the supplies, and preparing to take the ships out of the water so we could change from pontoons to wheels, It was lucky, too, that we were going to change to pontoons, because when Smith and Arnold were on the Chicago that morning a boatman came rowing alongside, and when the: ked him to move on he put his oar hole right throught it. “Later when ‘Les’ w Chicago alone and being towed Into the dock the motor in the boat stopped and the plane, while drift ing helplessly, nearly crasned into a small steamo You never heard such frantic yelling. ‘Les’ couldn't speak Japanese and no one him could speak English, al they were all dying to help. ‘Les’ hopped over to the power bos but, unable to get it started quickly, he took a flying leap back to the Pontoon, and in doing so collided with a Jap, who fell overboard, kimono, American straw hat, and all. Then ‘Les’ crawled out to the eige of the wing that was about to hit the steamer and held them apart with his own strength until another motor boat was sent out to tow him away. is on the few minutes later one of the Japs helping him dropped a screw driver overboard. It was one that ‘Les’ used @ great deal, and when he looked rather unhappy about it, the Jap dove right off the pontoon, swam ‘around at the -bottom of the bay like a pearl diver. and two or inst a pontoon | to push himself away and shoved a} three minutes later came up with it in his mouth. “That evening we had our first | introduction to the teahouses ani geisha girls of Japan, when one of the admirals took us to dinner in the town of Tsuchimira. Having often heard of the geishas, and won- dering just who they really were. jwe all looked forward to this party. Nor were we one bit disappointed. When we stepped from our limou sines to the veranda of the teahouse, checked our shoes and comed by a crowd of Japanese maids in flowered kimonos, {t seemed as though we had stepped right into che pages of a story book. “We entered a room with a floor covered with straw mats and with walis that were mere screetis made of wood and paper. The admiral in- vited us to kneel on silk cushions. Then a tiny table of lacquer was placed in front of each of us by very pretty geisha girls assigned to serve and entertain us. All of them were demure, charming, laughing-eyed, 16 year old maidens. Each time one of them brought in another course she would kneel down on the floor, bow end touch her forehead to the mat- sing. ach gesha devotes herself exclusively to the gentleman whom she has been assigned to wait upon, emoves the various courses, brings | others, lights his cigarets as he re- cLnes on nis cushion, fills his little cup with warm sake and initiates hm fnto the mystery of using chop- sticks. ; “The admiral had ordered noth- ing but Japanese food, but we were too busy fiddling with our chop- sticks to bother about what we were eat.ug. Just try eating rice with two knitting needles and you will know what it’s like. After’ I had finally coaxed a morsel half way to my mouth suddenly the sticks would iali apart, the food drop, and one stick would fly up and hit me in the eye. Smith and ‘Smiling Jack’ seemed to be the two most apt pu- pils, because after a half hour their them so they could ed chop stick. Sake was another thing we knew nothing about until we arrived here. it seemed to be served everywhere and flows almost as freely as water. It is a light white wine made from rice, and instead of serving it in a pail of ice they put it on thé stove and heat it. Japan surely is a topsy-turvy land. Or is that we are the funny ones? Not only do the Japanese drink their wins hot in- stead of cold take scald'ng hot | baths instead of cold ones, and read and write from right to left, but we noticed up at Hitokappu that the sailors on their destroyers would beach the!r boats stern foremost. 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You will jent oil will seep in the leaves to lubricate them. pal reason for oiling the The only from creeping in between thes leaves and rusting them up. When roads are smooth and important that the brakes be perfectly equalized, otherwise Tt is equally i bind when in the portant that they be adjusted ‘off’ pos When the brakes wheel acts be the other and this test to see if the brakes are equalized properi and securely ich the wheels. while chock up the. front wheels. Now ine and engage row out the clutch and app d both wheels naibtieentra little” ortihatiwhesliend 1 wheels around by hand nd when the brakes are off and regard | vulgar for womer arms, should nkles as oc- eldentais do. panese wants to abuse or insult another he simply omits the usual polite superlatives or spreads them on so thick that they Indicate derision. “After we had dined the geishas danced and sang for us. The mu- sic was odd and weird and some- what inharmonious, but the dancing was art'stic and utterly different from our American jazz or shimmy. The geishas, in bright silks, with dainty, fans, merely postured before gold and silver ens. It all seemed in exquisite taste. As they danced the Japanese officers told us @ WMttle about them and explained that the most of them are maidens of refinement and by no means the ‘Madame Butterflys’ that foreigners 80 often th'nk. “It was an evening in a lifetime, so novel and altogether charming that it seemed Just like a dream.” In speaking about the rather leng stay of e'ght days that the world tly- ers made at Kasumigaura, Erik Nel- fon explained that {t not only was necessary to overhaul the planes and change pontoons but the Japanese would have been deeply offended if they had not attended the official receptions and banquets that had been arranged. “Our uniforms arrived from To- kio Saturday morning, May 24, so we blossomed forth {n regulation army air service dress for the first time since leaving Seattle. That day Call 2008 For a Powerful, Speedy Service Car P Anywhere Any Time Kemmer Body and Fender Sho; 425 W. 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