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GLIMPSING THE FAR EAST BY GIDEON A. LYON. Member of American Journalists’ Party Touring Orient as Guest of ¥ Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. May 17, 1929. | works for the aid of the families of 'TOKIO. Today I feel quite Easternized. 1 can say “Yes” and “No” and more” and “Thank you” in Japa- nese. I can even find out how much is | asked for an article in a shop. I can rackon in yen and sen. I can sit cross- legged at a Japanese banguet without deadly suffering, and I can satisfy my hunger by means of chop sticks. Those are decided accomplishments, consider- ing_that I have been in Japan only a week—a little less by the clock—with a preliminary on hoard ship of Jap- onesque surround- ings for 15 days. I foel quite set up by m;; achievement. Yesterday I “cut the official sched- ule in part, as I am doing ' again today. I had had the good fortune to meet at the gar- dan party of Tues- day Mrs. Neville, wife of the charge d'affaires for the United States, who, Mr. learning that I had some shopping to do for the home folks, suggested that I go with her to the Thursday Club and look for bar- gains in kimonos and obis and haori coats. I had heard of this organization. which is a eontinuous *‘rum; conducted by ladies of high social rank | for the benefit of charity, and the op+ portunity was too good to be missed. So | I passed up a visit to the Industrial Art Exposition held under the auspices of the Department of Commerce and In- dustry, and the succeeding round of visits to the principal company offices, banks and stores, and was taken by Mrs, Neville to the Thursday Club. Suffrage Seems Nearer. Just a word here about these Japanese Iadies. One seldom meets them in the course of social rounds such as_we have been making on our tour. But they have a very active social life never- theless, and are rapidly “coming out” into political society. Many of them are members of organizations. Some | are busy workers in charities. Some are affiliated with international movements. | There is in the air here a decided flutter of preparation for a definite “woman's movement.” and I am in- | clined to think that in the course of the next decade the Japanese government will find that it faces the question of suffrage. * . i “Mokuyo Kai” or Thursday Club, was organized after the Great War by | the women who had, during that time of desperate need, engaged in various “war works” of alleviation, chiefly UST a month ago today, April 17, | 1 left. Washington for the Orient. . The suit thing SWIM. smart select your suit in sun-back suits so | & leper home at For This Week End? 1f you like to really swim, and be really means wear a Jantzen . .. and exaetly suits your personality from the Jantzen color chart We're featuring the new the smart beaches. soldiers.” They felt that it was a pity to scrap the organization they had effected, | so they went on with charitable enter- prises.” At first they held their “meet- ings” or sales, twice a year, in the Spring and in the Autumn, but after th~ earthquake and fire, which precipi- tated the most urgent charity necessit; Japan has ever felt, they met every day For an entire year they continued thus in their daily endeavors to relieve the sufferings of the stricken people of Tokio. They then went on a weekly basis, and that Is th present status. Posters Tell of Res: On the walls of the room—in the home of one of the members—where the weekly sale is held are posters which tate the results of the work of the club | circles ot Tokio. Most of tnem nave ibeen worn only a few times. In the case of bridal garments they have had fresh and clean, therefore bright and charming as when they came from the hands of the makers, Selection an Ordeal. I confess that the selection of kimonos ana haori coats for the home | folks was an ordeal which I could not | have passed but for the good advice I had seen at the hotel some of the | purchases made by members of our party from various sources—there are numerous ways of conducting trade here in Japan—and had marveled at their temerity in choosing. My own case was an easy one, with such expert aid. 1t is not for me to describe my pur- chases. My hope is that they will prove satisfactory to those for whom they are {intended. "I may add that one of the | most_interesting items on' the list of possible acquisitions is the obi, or sash. !'which forms so important a feature of | the dress of the Japanese woman. | Somegimes these obi are quite as costly as tHe kimonos themselves. By the way, the word kimono, I am_told, during the past several years in terms | simply means “garment.” or “clothing.” of donations to charities. In passing let me say that the 1926 list includes | colored dress an_item of a gift for the relief of the | associates with Japan. sufferers from the Florida disaster of that vear. It has come to mean the flowing, vari- that one instinctively It may be in The black right hues or in black. I made a copy of the list |style is called the haori coat, for either men or women. It is distinguished b; Ofukai creche, 300 yen: Tokio Y. W. |the fact that on the shoulders and on | C. A, 100 yen: Kure Sailors’ Home, 200 ven: three leper hospitals, 200 yen each; Kusatan, 200 ye Garden Home at Nakano, 100 ven; set tlement house at Yurin-er of Korean girl students, 420 yen; Home ! us for Aged, 30 yen; free dispensary, 50 yen. Thai made a total of 2400 jen, | or_approximately $1.250. { That may seem like & small sum for a whole year's work. But it is to be vemembered that this is only a small group of women and that their resources consist_merely of a percentage of th proceeds of the sales of the garment: brought to them for such disposition, If they got all thut was received from | these sales they would be able to con- | duct & far longer list of charitable donations, and in er units These garments, many of them of the | highest quality of materials and the finest workmanship, and all of them of | irresistible altractiveness, are brought | or sent for sale by ladles of the upper | 0 i Special for Limited Time Only Cleaned Glazed and Store ‘This specidl price includes thorough cleaning of your coat inside and out, glazing and gual ed cold siorage 5" Becember 3 Special Prices in Remodeling Expert Workmanship Work called for and delivered NEW ENGLAND FURRIERS Benjamin Sherman, Prop. 618 12th Street Franklin 6355 SRNIRES b thit Fianged to swimming SUIT then by all the color that popular at all the back appears the small circle of individuality, the monogram or ‘“sign” of the house, in white. But as to the obi. to be bought b; They are not, of ‘Westerners for they would not be serviceable. They are, however, useful as drapes and “run. ners” for tables, mantels and for walls. Woobpwarp & LLoTHROP and the kindly guidance of Mrs. Neville. | sashes, for save in fancy dress | STAR | cut apart—or rather ripped—they spread out into sufficient breadths to | furnish materials for cushion covers. only a single wearing. They are all They are in all colors, all designs. and |souvenirs from this collection, thus made virtually as | one can go bankrupt collecting them. | for us almost literally while we waited. | With care to obtain a bill of sale | which states that the articles purchased | are “second hand.” the customs officers | | muy be met with equanimity with & stock of goods Purchased from the| | Thursday Club. And be it known, fur- thermore, that the prices paid for these goods are far less than are charged in | (he shops, in many cases less than half. | So it was & veritable “bargain hunt’ | upon which I ventured yesterday morn- | ing. But I would advise all men who | me to Tokio to patronize the Thurs- day Club—as indeed any other mart of feminine wear—only under chaperon- age. | Guest of Baron Iwasaki. My heavy package of goods placed in my room at the hotel, my financial obli- gation discharged, T hastened or wa ned off to the home of Barory Iwa- of Japan's Rockefellers, ouse” or combination of companies rivaling in size and impor- tance that of Baron Hitsui, who enter- tained us the other day. Baron Iwasaki was unavoidably absent from home, but was represented by one of his leading | business associates in welcoming us to his palatial residence, which is decidedly French in style, standing in a great park chiefly given up to formal gardening | with some decidedly Japonesque corners, however. The luncheon was, as usual, a gastro- nomic triumph. They do these things wonderfully here in Japan. After lunch we went through the rooms and saw the treasures of art and were guided into a room where, on a slightly raised plat- ‘WASHINGTON. B of Juji. wers, and ‘We were asked to sel our With each panel, about eight inches square, went a fan. My panel shows a stork flying over the rising sun, a token of the best of good fortune. Just one more ofithe delicate compli- ments the Japanese host pays to his guests. A tour through the garden concluded ; beneath a wistaria arbor at least a | quarter of an acre in extent. Seven veritable trees supply it. Thousands of blossom pendants hang from the bam- boo structure to make a lavender roof. This is one of the finest displays of | Wistaria in Japan, one of the greatest In world, Other Features of the Day. i Really, it is too bad to have taken up so | much space with bargam hunting that I have only a few lines left for the re- | maining features of the day, a visit to the “Toyo Bunko,” or Oriental Library, and a visit to the Nichi Nichi office fol- lowed by & restaurant-theater entertain ment given by the president of the com pany publishing that big newspapel The Oriental Library is ‘he largest in | the world in its specialty. It was col- lected, in the main, by the late Dr.! George Ernest Morrison of Peking, and was bought, for emplacement in Tokio, | by Baron Iwasaki in 1917. It is housed in = beautiful building provided by | Baron Iwasaki and contains some ex- tremely rare and remarkable works bearing on the Far East. It is visited and consulted by students from all pai of the world. Our visit there was & bright spot in the program, The Nichi Nichi office had been in FRIDAY, JUNE 21, harming bits of landscape, | tion o occasional glimpses 929 f prints relating to Commodore Perry’s visit, samples of old newspapers of Japan, ts of the monkeys of | the world, and other teresting items. We made a quick run through the press room, of which the Nichl Nichi organ- ization is deservedly proud, and then to | the restaurant-theater for a Japanese | dinner, with the usual service of the foods and drinks by geisha girls, in | greater numbers than usual. Their dances were of a more lively nature than those of our previous experiences, including one very amusing character- ization of a rampageous lion by two | clever young women, | Note—Another of Mr. Lyon's letters will appear in The Star tomorrow, Hold Catholic Film Congress. 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