Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1929, Page 40

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST B Member of American Journalists’ Party Touring Orient as Guest of Carnegle Endowment for International Peace. BY GIDEON A. LYON. May 11, 1929, Hotel Imperial, Tokio. | 18 first letter written in Japan ‘might be started in several ways. 1 might tell of our belated arxival, | due to the heavy weather and | fog encountered off the coast, | causing a delay of eight or ten hours in reaching Yokohama. I might tell of | the assembiage on board before we had | actually touched dock of a large group | of newspaper men, all eager for inter- | views and with cameras ready for flash- light photographs taken on the damp deck. Or I might tell of the motor drive | up to Tokio, an hour of mystic tantalizing glimpses of the highway of continuous occupa- tion that stretches between the cities, k- . - the vividly colored . | ehop fronts and the brightly let- tered signs givin us our first rea contact with this highly decorative land. Or again I might tell of last night's entertainment at the hands of the Jjournalists of the S s capital at the Kagetsu Restaurant, one of Tokio's most interesting and famous places of | refreshment. That would be a whole | story in itself. And then again I might | begin by reciting the set features of our program, copies of which reached us this morning at breakfast time and | several of them came into view at the delightful Japanese gentleman who sat alongside of me, regarding the peculiar o effect of the paniment was to my own sense one con- stant jar of harsh sounds, while voices of the singers, pitched in the deep alto, with twanging quality that marks the tragic actor’s delivery, were not the , dulcet tones that were to have been expected from such lovely ereatures. Legend Is Rendered: The dance is a rendering of a legend usho course of which we had been informed, 1 might almost say warned—raw fish, | with beefsteak plant and horseradish sn:cat Thlt Id‘i:'p'n’hh:“ excellent l?d not at all leasmg to our taste.|about nese pries Boiled prawn with vegetables came | R e next, and then a_vegetable broth with | {heusand years ago during the Sung “mixed pepper.” The succeeding course | qunasty. met a strange adventure when was bofled rice and pickles. Finally | ha ascended Tien Shan, the seat of & dessert wils served. famous monastery of the Jodo sect. As Served by Geisha Girls. | he approached a stone bridge spanning All this food came to us at the hands | a Very deep gorge he was stopped by a of wondrously clad young women, Woodcutter, who told him that nobody, geishas of the highest degree, e not even a priest of great virtues, was for the occasion to pass us our permitted to go over the bridge unless to sing and dance for our entes ent X and to chat with us as well as their language limitations—or rather our own—permitted. Later the geishas dis- appeared from the table service and in a few minutes there was a hush as mortifications. Presently, as if to en- force this injunction, there appeared on the scene a number of lions, dancing with every sort of menacing gesture. I must confess that the dance as we saw it failed somehow to convey the picture described in the werds I have just paraphrased, from the description in the menu. It is true that the scene has been reduced to the disporting of two uon.s'.téuram and oub. These were represen by two fearsome heads, borne on the left hands of the dancers, one white, with a flowing white mane, the other red, with red mane, respec- tively elder and younger llon. ese heads were carried up the arm with emd of the room, clad more gorgeously than before. Four of them sat on the floor, two with samisens, the long- necked Japanese musical instruments, which they plucked as an accompani- ment to the other two, who were the singers, while the two dancers, who were named on the menu card as the Missexs Chiyoro and Ikko, performed the famows classic dance of “Ren-Jishi” dz-rlv;dk from an ek:rllet:’ "N, dance of “Shak-kyo,” or “the stone bridge.” scarves which flows Appraciation of Japanese music and|of the dancers, y:{’m':'r‘i‘é“‘.,fié“n“i‘é'fi dancing is to be acquired, perhaps, but| fyl. They had on them bells, which it is hanily to be expected of a party|rang with the motions of the hands. of American tourists who have been| The description calls attention to the rushed from the ship to the scene of|fact that in the course of the dance, the performance within a couple hours|the papa lion makes motions as if he of landing. To our Western ears and | were rfuhinl the cub down a preci- eyes there was something lacking in the | pice up which the flaming youth climbs performance. beautiful as it was in the | without much dimculty. - This i ayme he had undergone every kind of bodily | merable ‘Mr earliest days for a life of pluck and hardihood. haj that is how the Chinese this is supposed to have hap- on the other side of the Yellow a, be it remembered—kept their off- spring in condition. If so, they may have rendered them immune to all se- verities of experience. Would that our progenitors had given our precedent an- cestors and thereby ourselves such training. Then we might have been in shape to meet the grea’ test which Is now upon us. For example, there is | something in the achievement of a two-| {hour feast sitting on the heels, or in cross-legged style, without suffering from an ‘exaggerated form of house- maid's knee. There is something in the manipulation of chopsticks for every sort and shape of comestible There is something in the ability to| digest the great quantities of food that | constitute a Japanese formal dinner. And there is likewise something in the strength of constitution required to ab-| sorb without derangement the innu-| cups of saki—heated saki, served without warning by the kneel- ing geisha across the little table—even though the cups are tiny. Pleased by Hospitality. But be that as it may, however de- fective our ancestral training, we pass- ed the “stone bridge” of this great ad- venture into Japan without casual- ties and without regrets. We reached our hotel, a place of architectural mir- acles—shortly after m\dnlfht. all pres- ent- and accounted for, all agreed that Japan is a wonderful place, and that Japanese hospltality, while strenuous, is something worth crossing the Pacific to enjoy. Today begins the real test of our en- durance. he official program, I find upon examination, gives us actually two whole mornings in the course of the coming eight days, when we are not| “assigned” to some form of sight-see- ing or function of ceremony. It is hint- ed, however, that these blank spaces on the calendar my be filled shortly. Those of us who are trying to set down | | a haughty protest against the Warsaw | our impressions and to write back home in expression of them are wondering how we are going to manage the com- position of our articles without keeping the hotel guests awake with past-mid- night typewriting. the difficulties, however voluminous the notes, mental and otherwise, we are going to do our best, trusting to an occasional lapse from the schedule to give us a chanece to catch up with our copy. Note—Another of Mr. Lyon's letters will appear in The Star tomorrow, POLICE PRIDE HURT. WARSAW (#).—Professional dignity | has caused the Polish police to rellmr‘ production of the “Beggar's Opera,” in| which British policemen are humorous- ly characterized and shown accepting bribes. Polish guardians of the law, it was explained, are trained by the British forces, and they consequently felt the offense keenly. The opera director was | said, “be a fair interpretation of the | the bulldin forced t%resu the policemen in eivilian clothe d omit the “bribe so! 10-DAY EXCURSION to WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA ;.. 29, 1929 (Vacationland) Round-Trip Fare, Washington to Asheville, $14.00 Proportionate Fares to Other Western North Carolina Resorts Tickets honored on all regular trains leaving Washington June 29th, Except CRESCENT LIMITED; tickets good in Pullman cars upon payment of regular Pullman charges for space occupied. D. C, JUNE 16, 1929—PART 2. all and for each of us way, acting sensil CHURCHILL SPEAKS [t 4tx ON NAVAL QUESTION %5%iou ssm o, s Hoover became ident a more pathetic nIlm had been an importan Opposes Mére Numerical Musurelf%fl‘ i Amoeits Wwsrd Great Britain rope in general, of Fleets—Praises Hoover's ——me Sympathetio Spirit. INDUSTRIALIZE EGYPT. 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COHINGFORD, England, June 15— Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, on the same day that Ambassador Dawes landed to con- fer with Prime Minister Ramsay Mac- | Donald on the subject, discussed in a |for & tannery ai speach here last night Anglo-American | Asyut. — Other naval parity. | plans include the establishment of a “It would not, in my opinion,” he |trade exchange for domestic products; ! ‘) of Wurlldhe for the :.:ln; principle of equal powers upon the sea | ing of artificers, and the appointmen! if a _mere numerical measure of the | Of six foreign industrial experts as two fleets, each a replica of the other, |advisers were to be made the rule. “If naval equality is to lead to a jealous and suspicious scrutiny of every ship and gun and every armor plate between the two navies it would be much better to have no agreement at ACHE Do You Have Jrouble SATURDAY Ry D Reses MeTHOD 9* EveTestine Dr.oRose Esgmines Fack SPECIAL 2 BEAUTY TOO BASHFUL FOR $15,000 CONTRACT Father in Vienna Must Be Consult- ed, Says “Miss Universe,” Pre- paring Home Trip. 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Despite the admiring explanation of the | this way the lion trains its cubs from 1510 H Street N.W. or Union Station Southern Railway System SR . SR SR SR SR SR SR SR ave us cause to wonder whether we'll Be"able o survive all the kindness and all the attentions that are to be show- ered upon us. Flood of Invitations. | Taking all in all, it is perhaps just | as well to say that Japan has opened | her arms and taken us to her bosom. | BumsteadsWormSyrup children an angel of merey.” Where directions are Tolored, T NEVER FAILS. Despite scareity’ and enormo cost of SANTONIN. it eontains fall dose. Btood sixty years' fest. Sold everywhere or by mail, 800 » botile. A. Voorhees, M. D,, Philadelohis Another Price Cut at EVERYBODY’S Shoe Store 813 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W. This hospitality is altogether too en- | thusiastic to be merely the result of | organization. There is every evidence | that the Japanese press, at least, is gla to see us, glad to show us everythin that there to show, glad to have u appreciate the picture that is being so | rapidly unfolded to our view. This ardor is delightful. It repays us for the fatigue involved in- responding to the invitations that are literally pouring upon us. Last night's affair was a revelation , I think, all 12 of us, although two our party have visited Japan before. Coming as we did straight from the steamer, with not even hesitation at our hotel, clad in our business suits, we stepped from the motor cars into the veal Japan. True, the men who re- ceived us were likewise in modern busi- ness dress. But they and we likewise sat down on the threshold of the restau- rant and removed shoes and put on felt alippers. Anything less like a restaurant can ot be imagined. The floors were cov- ered by tatami, straw mats several inches thick and invariably three feet by six in dimensions. There were no pletures on the walls, which were of straw colored wood. There was no furniture—no tables, no chairs. largest of the rooms cushions had been | set around three sides on the floor. That was the “table.” ‘Waited Several Hours. ‘These gentlemen of the press, with some officlals of the foreign office, our hosts and fellow guests, had been wait- ing for us for several hours. Some of them had been at Yokohama since noon. Yet they received us with ardor, commisera with us for having thus to rush from ship to the banquet at so late an hour—it was after 10 when we sat down to the feast—when they sll knew that we were rather wearied the strain of landing day. ifully printed menu card con- tained first the announcement of the occasion, then a typographically correct list of our names—a real achievement— the menu itself and fimally a brief description of the dance that was later iven, the dance of “Ren-Jishi” an valuable interpretation for the aid ©of our Western senses. “This was not a “sukiyaki” dinner. It ‘was a veritable feast in the true Japa- nese style. Chieken soup a la Nagesaki was followed by prawn with egg sauce, and that in turn by mixed rice sand- h with duck balls and boiled squash. e succeeding course was young “ayu” horseradish sauce. Men’s, Women’s and Children’s Shoes, Slippers and Tennis i3 Men’s, Women's and Children’s Shoes, Slippers and Tennis. Special group, $5 to $7. 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