The evening world. Newspaper, September 12, 1922, Page 20

| nite = . ee renee — en emer eens SN einen ite eet . “ THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929, By «6 JONN Paris. }lustrated By Will.B. Johnstone. COPYRIGHT, (922. BY BON! AND LIVERIGHT. : sys S THE sp He wondered what his wife really liked him to tease her, just as a child hilarious reception given to this ex- gradually she became coherent. and smiling faces, where 1 HE CH AR AC I t Rs IN I HE = PORY Z thought of the Muratas, and during likes to Le teased, while all the time planation he knew that he must have i THE HONORABLE GEOFFREY BARRINGTON, son of Lord the return to their hotel, he asked: on the verge of tears, With Asako, mado a gore So he asked one of the | Brandan, a Captain in the British Army, resigns his commission “Well, little girl, do you want to go tears und laughter were never far more erfidite bores to give him the countless "It's mi “He tried to kiss me,'’ she sobbed, little shops spread their wares under swered; “it is a market of human “Who did?" her husband asked. the light of the evening lanterns, flesh, with nothing to disguise the re than that,’ Laking an- “The Vicomte de Br ‘* where the twang of the samisen and crude fact except the picturesqueness “Damned little monkey,’ cried the geisha’s song are heard coming of the place. It is a square enclosure when he weds and ; get HOME Geoffrey, “I'll break ever: from the lighted tea-house, and the as large as a small town. In this en- MISS ASAKO FUJINAMI, heiress, daughter of Japanese parents who “ijut it te nice to. think you have am Japanese?" she would sob; ‘'be- answers off pat to the leading ques- pone in his oteeeaes of a body. shadow of her helmet-like cofffure 14 closure are shops, and in the shop are dead, brought up and educated in French convent schools and always got an extra home in Paris, sidea, I'm not really, I can't help it. tions. The erudite one promptly lent “Oh, no, no," protested Asako, “let S¢¢M appearing and disappearing in windows women are displayed just like back again and live at Auteuil?” apart name the best books about Japan, She shook her head “Why do you tease me because I He woul “mug it u = eAaeey Sy isn't it?” he wont on, fishing for an T can't help it! him some yolumes by Lafcadio Hearn ney dish . silhouette against the paper sho. oods, or like ani in cages: for introduced to London socie \ ‘ avowal that home was in his urns “Dut, sweetheart,"*| her Captain and Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysan- US 80 away from here at once. Let “nie haar was drawing the Boren: tine relniowe hile eaten penkes: fo! LADY EVERINGTON, a brilliant matchmaker, who did not foresee Only, a kind of conversation which Geoffrey would say, suddenly ashamed theme, He read the novel frat of ail, U8 60 to Switzerland, anywhere."* donsitowards ts perilous coasta, Lak. of the sels uit Hore acclldiy like state et . ich G , ay, heme id the nove yaa * r rds its perilous coasts ‘ © girla sit there sto ° stuf. the result of the bringing together of the two, At the reception was't wine of life to him at that of fis eclepnantine humor, ‘there's Rather spicy, wasn't it? ut ey e ae ‘i ec pe ate ing’s position ae the Tokyo | ers fa ‘i rh ean f if ait Manet i . ‘ ‘i e had not been a ve rot Ns y y fed images, some of the e \ toasts are drunk to the closer union of Britain and Japan, but period nottiing to cry about. 1 would bo Axako found the book. It waa an reptile, tHe had shown Dis fang; Had been taken by Regie Forsyth, bara and try to catch hold of the both British and Japanese diplomats in the distinguished com- ‘No. she answered with a little proud to be a Japanese. They are jiustrated edition; and the little i j One of Geoffrey's oldest friends, his passers-by, Just like monkeys, and and the woman had promptly bruised drawings of Japanese scenes pleased iy head and had given hin an eye Lest Man at his wedding and a light joke with the her immensely, so that she began to or of Lady Everington’s circle. Alrea read the letter press. Geoffrey had sent him a_ post » the ae . % P " shudder, ‘1 don't call that home."* Jolly brave peopl They gave the pany evade the suggestion that the couple visit Japan, as appears Geoffrey's. conventionality, was a Russians a jolly good hiding.” to be their desire. Some of the reception guests frankly question jttle pit shocked at this Jack of affec- It made her feel well to hear him the wisdom of the marriage and doubt the possibility of a happy tion; he was w sc her people, but she would say: y and But I could not unde rd, said—fortunatel: hout after them. stand what they perhaps, The girls, like an Impressionist sunset, which for several days he had to hide from the © disappointed at not Pr ‘Te te the ately Ot & had fied saying, “Warm up the sake bottle,” —there must several tl ds— , TER) HO. Heo ‘i ve is the J id man and ridicule of his friends, 5 nt several thousands hfe for the pair. Lady Everington, in her anxiety for the young setting exactly the expeeted answer. "Nov m i ye ve. tke ‘them’ @ bad woman,” she sald; ‘Geoffrey, — “Are they ail bad?" she asked Geof. (Geoffrey was becoming quite learned aro all dressed up in bright kimonos. Captain. who has been her special protege, interviews a ee Re ee ee eet re ube and RRITetHT Why can't Why do you read bad things? They frey prmeran taal) ‘and expect It really is a very pretty sight, until os sy} p asker Kg . rf . ” a . ds shortly. one < They have COUNT SAITO, the Japanese Ambassador, who tells her the Fuji- “on, it was not pretty or comforta- we chooxe what we are? I would bo ring bad conditions. ‘0, little girl, T don't suppose so. one begins to think. ‘They have their y smiled. He was wondering They look too dismal to be bad,"* However, when the Barringtons did Price tickets hung up in the shop the company of the fictitious Geoffrey was grateful for the turn at last tear themselves from ty Ri- Windows, one shilliny up to one 1 up his Viera, they announced rather Wisin. Pound, That is the greatest shoc namis belong to the nouveaux riches of Japan, but gives little ble,’ she said, “they were so afraid an Wnxlish girl—or perhaps Frene r . ad: 3 io ‘bond money Whe: ins iy she adde hinking of the Rue de la Whether information of their origin or the source of their wealth eee ein Merete ats Chrysantheme was more demoralizing of events which had deliver wie They left Paris and went to Deau- than that of the actual Mme. Laroche wife again into his sole company. He S@Muously that they were going to Which Japan has in s ore for the ordi- be al as st raaiaat t rey ae nN weds like a ittie prisoner ye ville; and here it was that the serpent Meyerbeer, with whom his wife had had missed her society mere than he FAYpt. he ee nary ours. um. ae ; Honeymoon. slavish imitation of the tes and leased into the sunlight. She dreaded first crawled into Eden, whispering of been that day for a picnic lunch, dared confess; for uxoriodsness is a War hey a bes happy.” Lady Ever- Hanes he if i ae as meee or : Asa ne kami habits of Parisian friends, ‘The living the idea of being thrust back into the forbidden fruit. ‘These serpents were Resides, it isn't fair," his wife con- pitiful attitude, In fact, tt is Bad inglon, said te) baking a few days Moments her dlippant companion tis RDAs. (i toon were as {mpersohals as (he darkness again charming people, amusing men and. tinued eople read that book and Form. ater, “and they know nothing. Tam become quite serious ; ; noe leviy Vs i roa » boarding house. Neutral In this new life of hers anythite Smart women, all anxious to make the then they think that all Japanese girls At this period he wanted her as a Afraid there will be trouble After all, he said, “is it any Utaukushikt ooms of & boarding house. Neutra * anythi 5 ha Kind of mirror for his own mind and ‘Oh, Lady Georgie,” he replied, “1 Worse than Piccadilly Circus at I didn’t think you for his own person. She saw to it have never known you to be a propiie- Nght ieoffrey expostulated, that his clothes were spotless and that @s88 of gloom, I would have thought It is not a question of tints bounded, ugly browns and Would have made her happy, that ts Aequaintance of the latest sensation, are bad like that im mahurd ; “why, di avin Dey te tieeNrS: nightmare vegetable patterns on cur. to Say, anything new, anything givea the Japanese millionaingss and her Why, darlin Fureteshi mono wo ; ve bes ‘eta, Where to har, anyihing wood)to out oF: goud-looking Wishand, had read t,"* or ‘i Ateralaen kel ag Ugalde ee Aa ing ate cna Aas AN eae Asako hunched with them and dined ‘who has been telling you about it?” his tle was straight. Of course, he the aatspices were most fortunate.”* worse,"” argued Laking 4 (My) morning sleep hair TOV. cavare, for ihe cheihe aa] RAVTHINE—ao 1Onw as tor bie huswunn wiih (onland anewith then teak the The Vicomte de Brie," Asako an- always dressed for dinner even when buble is on the lookout for all Purely mercenary system is a terrible U will net dorm BETA) faVIRdIB AERA Teae RES tee tha: Achar OU NEKO : 4 in wonderful bathing costumes swered. ‘He called me Chrysantheme they dined in thelr room. She too Of us, Aubrey," said his companion, Offense to our most cherished belief ERIS NMR DERRIUN CEE CE WN Tee MMs CoVREd TORCH eGR, Gib ubedllity play wWithcHor as. ne. wtich it would (bom ataine to wets andly akked Himwhys would dress herself up in her new “It is no good flying from it, even, We may- be hypocrites, but our Mydaeanerst - antl cise ene samp. Stands baa Would have played with a child, Conscious of the shortcomings of her ‘Oh, diu he?" said Geoffrey, Really finery for his eyes alone. She would The only thing to do Is to look it In b¥pocrisy itsolt an adinission of y beautiful ! ‘ f f ands, it stands and every kind of decorative Watehing her as she ‘tried on ber figure as compared with those of the it was time to put an end to lunch listen to him laying down the law on the face and laugh at it; then it gets guilt and Ml act of worship. ‘To tit HE Barringtons dust ywhere the thick smell of finery, hiding things for her to fiiG, lissom mermaids who surrounded her, pienies and mermaidism, But Asako subjects which he would not dare MNNeyed sometimes, and goes away. VEN to the readiest sit left England for a conc grime told of insufficient holding them over her heud and mak- Asko returned to kimonos, much to was so happy and so shiningly inno- broach were he talking to any one But tho: ars are saifing NS Woman Is always something divi Dee ae : tc. ing her jump for them like a puppy, her husband's surprise; and the mer- cent else, She flattered him in that silent Into the middle of it, and they don't The lowest aseignation of 1 e two poor de ervants and ineffective sweeping + Bn 1 i] Q) Prolonged honey- piece was not one ornament or pic. arranging her ornaments for her in maids had to confess themselves he returned to her circle of way which is so soothing to a man of even know how to laugh yet tay it Ieaat a «linguine Of ‘romney Cpmoon, tor Geol ture whieh recalled Japan, or gave « those continual private exhibitions beaten admirers, and Geoffrey to his studies his character “You think that Egypt is hopelessiy But to the Japanese, woman nusthe frey was now free clue to the personal tastes of the sombral ai iey Reuse nse Oeeec pie ee) EATS AAI Ey : to realize his fav- owners. there and come vafely home, almost | Lady Everington shivered, but sha 7. z Geoffrey had expected to be the ner- all, in fact, except Robert Hichens’s "ried to live up t r reputation of Sete PENI at vous witness of an affecting scene be- heroines ; being shocked by nothing, travelling abroad. tween his wife and her adopted pur- Oh no, not in Egypt,” said Lady We that ts on ‘ So they became ents, But no, the grectings were po- EyerIngton cypt is only a step. tether In Fieealily te numbered among lite and formal. Asako's frock and ving stone They are going to Wi Bies Mtblone a8 on $ 2 jewelry were admired, but without Japan mercial transetic that shoal of Eng- that note of angry envy which i “Well, certainly Japan is harness hap: uid the vou lish people out of brightens the dullest talk between li. enough, There is nobody there worth “but what about th at the have i England who dies in England. ‘Then, they sat down firting with except us at the Embas- of our minds? Vass « ‘ i Jess leisure be- “When the meal was over, Murata ways under the influence of Cook's A glimpse of the id S pos H tween Paris and the Nile. drew Geoffrey aside into bis shingly tickets and Japanese guides Piccadilly and impossible i the Yost yy Geoffrey had resigned his commis. garden “Aubrey dear, you think that twa The divine was H sion in the army. His fends thought “I think that you will be content trouble can only,come from flirting or Visible in) Marguerite hitth . with our Asa San," he said; “tho that this was a mistake. For the loss ¢),racter is still plastic. In England of & man’s career, even when it is un- jt in different; but in France and In congenial to him, is a serious ampita- Japan we say It is the husband who tion, and entails a lesion of spiritual ™USt make the character of his wit». money." if Hugh saw it even in Nana. For one “E know that those two preoceupa- thing, here in London, in the dirtiest tions are an abundant source of Of sordid dramas, it is still the woman trouble," Who gives, but in Japan it is always “What do you think of Mrs, Ba the man who takes i 4 : ear brey,"’ said his friend, "I had ;, She is the plain white paper; let him rington?” asked her Ladyship, appear ubrey, 5 blood. He had refused his father’s jake his bruah and write on it what ing to change the subject. no idea that you were a poet, or in sukgestions of settling down in a he will. As un is a Very sweet girl “Ob, ga very sweet little thing.”’ other words that you ever talked non house on the Brandan estate, for Lord She is very easy to manage, She has Brandan was an unpleasing old gen- # Peautiful disposition. She does not fi 7 tell lies without reason. She does not tleman, a frequenter of country bars wish to make strange friends. 1 do and country barmaids. His son wished not think you will have trouble with to keep his young bride as far away ax her. Possible from a spectacle of which he He talks about her rather as it ; she were a horse,"’ thought Geoffrey, ‘was heartily ashamed. Murata went on,— First of all they went to Paris, he Japapese woman is the ivy which Asako adored; for was it not Which clings to the tree.” She does not her home? But this t a, Wane Seltinob sy hig time she made “svou think Asako in atill ver’ the acquaintance of a Paris unknown anese, then?" asked Geoffres to her, save by rumor, in the conven: “Not her manners, or her looks, days or within the discreet precincts ¢Y€n her thoughts,” replied Murntn, of Monsieur Murata’s villa. She was PUtNething can change the heart Then do you think she is hor enchanted by the'theatres, the shops, rick sometimes for Japan?” said ne Tal sense is Cs io! “Like your lady friends in Tokyo— %88e without laughing. You think u on such a shock is strong enough to up- ihe Japanese ones, I mean i a 5 set the Barrington menage? Not i the least, Japanese Iodine eee naan ouale ae think," hi ook very picturesque, but they a1@ \swered, «to poor old Geoffrey, whe as dull as dolls, ‘They sidle along in ju NCTC” to Door eo dan ona tomate the wake of their husbands, and don’t }* pen hail AD is ae ee expect to be spoken to fello ", not overused to furious think ae &. [ suppose if one married a And have you no more intimate l aves 2 monkey, one might persuade oneself ence?"” asked Lady Everington. or ner humanity, until one saw her lly, Aubrey, you have not been : ie oF x! : : ' % kindred in cages. iving up to your reputation \ “Poor little Asako, my latest god “Well, Lady daughter!’ cried Lady Everington, man proceeded, gazing at his polished Really, Aubrey, you are very rude!" boots with a well-assumed air of em- “J did not mean to be,” sald Lake barrassment, sinee T know that you jng penitently “She is a most in- ave one of the enlightened ones, I gratiating little creature, like a lazy will confess to you that I did keep kitten; but I think it 1s unwise for a little establishment @ la Pierre Lott. jim to take her to Japan. All kinda renee rane SI ieorgie,”’ the young Jap- SE} i the restaurants, the music and the life husband CHAPTER My eee kennier: ee ee of latent orientalisms may develop." wh! a : vant- “Oh, no,"* smiled Murata, ‘The lite would be aggood way of improving ed vata atealia eee tle wizened man was full of smiles pean enrss ny. knowledlze of the local idiom; ‘The spring was at hand, the season . Dile let Japan sian anecees nec tie , Nagaki yo no and this Knowtedge meant an extra of impulse, when we ‘obey most there for the rest of her existence. years old, She remembers nothing To no nemuri no hundred pounds to me for interpre- readily the sudden stirring of our “But the season is almost over,” at all.’ phiok ook up te) much Ws Baral co , Miname-zame, towanite, as jit i ‘ alledt I hearts. Even in the torrid climate 7 i oY thinkcone O i ro ty Phen she would ring the bell ant am nori fune no too, tha would be a re- of Egypt, squalls of r assed over aid eigen ‘everybody will be ty ea RSs stimmon all the ehambermaids, wish Oto no yoki kana Nef after diplomatic dinner parties Like s ray Binds at paeanie “Agak . tired of Europe, you know It Is w call to come ‘and admire; and Gecl From the deep sleep to be able to swear for an hour or Rarrington felt the fresh influence } accustomed yet to his freedom, wonderful country, I am told; and jt f*¥ Would stand among all these Of a long night so big round oaths in tpe company nd the desire to do new things in Mentill’ Salt, Gouatrained. to dé he Nome tok Raum Wenn het AcunC an and womentol Untening faene chorus oF - Waking) of a dear belovtd one who cog not new places. Hitherto she had evinced pay know nothing about it. Besides, 1 OF et mnt rte AME SCTeS: weet is the soun understanc me. So my teacher yery tittle inclination to revisit th enraa' an Wverybody. should like to look into her affairs and aH!” and “AL, qu’elte ext yentille"* Of the ship as it rides the waves. undertook to provide ine With a Suit- ome of her ancestors. But on thelr Before leaving Paris, they paid 4 ¢ing out about her investments.” i some Hector who had strayed When August snow fell upon Bt able female companion. He did. In return from the temples of Luxor, sha visit to the Auteuil villa, which hud = Murata was staring at his yellow M10 the gynaeceum of Priam’s palace . we * * Moritz, the Barringtons descended to fact, he introduced me to his sister; id quite unexpectedly to Geoffrey, Rein Abus a Horie for ao many year Hoots “wilit- any ercberranead alts it : Biased shono ane of Asako liku HS CTBIED FO: W1S8 02) Bre SOBBER! Milan, Florence, Venice and Fone: and the suitability was based on the i wa af Gh lscan ne, wh alas) Murata was the manager of a big SWenly strick the Englishman that sht. But would she always be She listened to their talk and of the Fa ist. He read the Laf- Towards Christmas they found) their fact that she held the same position be in time to see the cherry-blossoms."* : he, Geoffrey Barrington, was related Dappy? ‘There were the possibilities learned a hundred things, but another cadio Hearn books, and did not per- way to the Riviera, where met under my predecessor, a man whom —swhy, little Sim Yum." cried her Japanese firm in Paris. He had spent 4° people who looked like that, and Of the future to be reckoned with, hundred at le remained hidden ceive that he was taking opium, The Lady Everington at Monte Carlo, very [ dislike exceedingly. But this T only qusband, delighted, “ave you tired of almost all his life abroad and the last who now had the right to call him Sikness, childbirth nd the rearims, from her, wonderful sentences of that master of indignant, or pretending to be so, at found out later on. She was dull, pharaohs?’ i Raaits ‘sonra anit incthe Wrench cine count fe whivered of children, the hidden development of — Geoftrey left his wife to amuse her- Prose poetry rise before the eyes in the neglect with which she had been qoadiy dull. I couldn't even make her “wyypt ie very interesting,” pala ital, so that even in appearance, ex- “You can trust her lawyers,” said TM Sea spa se ote KroWs self in the cosmopolitan society of the Whorls of narcotic smoke. They lull treated. tant mous. She was ox dull as My Asako, correctly; “it is wonderful to the Japanese, "Mr, Ito is an old ‘YY from what it once cherished, the drench watoring-place the brain as in a dream, end form "Fairy godmothers are Important Japanese grammar; and when I had think of these great places standing mame Far nin ebore atadire ADO Nie tlt cs ecie,) Wout mae be quite Dileful currents of outside infhience: But he felt a bit lonely when he themselves gradually into visions of people,” she said, “and very easily passed my examinatién and burnt MY here for thousands and thousands oF ed eyes, he tad come to look like @ certain that Asako's money is safe,” (20 attraction and repulsion of s0- way away from hér. Occupation did a land more beautiful than any land offended, Then, they turn you {nto books, I dismissed her.” years. But it makes one sad, don't Frenchman with his beard a I'impe- “Oh yen, of course,” assented Geot called fri nee and enemies ‘all ©f not seem to come easily to him as it that has ever existed anywhere, a wild animals, or send you to sleep for Aubrey, what a very wicked \ou think? Everybody here seems te Sale; and his quick bindlike gestures. trey, “but what (exactly. are ber in= Livaies ee tien aE NO TE did when she was there to suggest it. country of vivid rice plains and sud- a hundred years ga Why didn't you story!" . snot even Dae died long, long ago. It would His wife was a Japanese, but ahe too Vestments? I think I ought to know.” honosmoon Eden, Adam und Eve im Sometimes he would loaf up and down den hills, of gracious forests and write to me, child?” he: tercan No, Lady Georgie, it was not even he nice to see green fields again, Murata began to laugh nervously, as 9 Bat ace e on the esplanade: and sometimes he temple gateways, of wise priests and ‘They were sitting on the terrace wicked, She was not real enough to wouldn't tt, Geoffrey dearest?” had lost almost all traces of her na~ 1) Japanese do when embarrassed the garden of Need be peed ty would take strenuous swims in the folklore imagery, of a simple-hearted with the Casino behind them, over- sin with, ‘The affair had not even the Ha velen Ok MANie sae sneaking i tive mannerisms. “Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed, “but 1 Pies yolse Be ee sacle uae sea. Ho became the prey of the bores smiling people with children bright as looking the btue Mediterranean. A exvitement of badness to keep It “And you really want to go to i Asako Fujinamt had been brought d¢ not know myself. The money hit jays Het page eps ‘itnoat yanibion who haunt every seaside place at home flowers laughing and playing In un- few yards farther on, a fl, J0une going anese well? T&PAn, sweetheart? It's the first time to Paris by her father, who had die Ce” paid regularly for nearly twenty jing without reproach They have @24 abroad, lurking for lonely and failing sunlight, a country where Englishman was onatting and laugh Do you know the Japanese welt’ I've heard you say you want to go."" 2 years; and I know the Fujinami «1@ no parent no parents-in-law, no Polite people upon whom they may everything is kind, gentle, small, neat, ing with a couple 9 os 09 Lady Everington returne “Unele and Aunt Murata in Parls there while still a young man, Ho very rich. Indeed Capt. Barrington, Be tee Teta bi tare eal unload their conversation artistic, and spotlessly clean, where elaborately beautiful and too dazzling- pighroad of her inquiry. used always to say about now, ‘if we had entrusted his only child to the do not think Asako would like Japan, ilar “ay the train of scan tal. At these people seemed either to men become gods not by sudden apo- ly gowned for any world but the haif- “No, nobody does; they area most gy pack to Japan we shall be in time care of the Muratas with instructicns It was her father's lust wish that she Or 4 he continuously pulling. them ve been in Japan themselves or to theosis but by the easy processes of world. Suddenly he turned, one secretive people. tthe Rare 10,880 the cherry-blossoms,* " that she should be educated in Euro- S#0uld never return there rai eA CH OLEK ACARI have friends and relations who knew nature, a country, in short, which is noticed Lady erington, w ith a “Do you think tetra ies aoe “Why,” asked Geoffrey, ‘do the ae eas a “He thought that for a woman the “Them woe one cloud in the heayen the country thoroughly the reverse of our own poor vexed con- courteous farewell to his companions, ringtons go to Japan, there Is OMY Jananese make such a fuss about thele ppan ways and ideas, that whe shdild io i more happy in Burone! lie of ne happiness. Geoffrey was in- , A Wonderful land, they assured him, tinent where the monstrous and the he advanced to greet her danger of Asako being drawn back Gherry-plossome?"” ' hold no communication with her rela- wished Asako to forget altogether clined to tease Axako about her native The nation of the future, the Garden hideous multiply daily “Aubrey Laking,"’ she exclaimed, into the bosom of her Faroiy Laking .)They must be very pretty,” an f tives in Japan, and that eventually a that she was Japanese.” country. His ideas about Japan were of the Bast, but of course Captain One afternoon Geoffrey was loimg- “'you never answered the letter’ I “No, I shouldn t snip ce, oe swered his wife, “like great clouds of ' white husband should be provided for — “Yes, but now she is married und gieaned chiefly from musical come- Barrington knew Japan well. No, he ing on the terrace of the hotel reading wrote to you at Tokyo. - replied, apaness J Me ven te the SOW. Resides, the cherry-flowers are j her future is fixed, She is not going dies. He would call his wife Yum had never been there? Ab, but Mrs, Kokoro, when his attention was at- “Dear Lady Georgie, I left Tokyo comfortable, you know, nave AUPposed to be Hike the Japancse i hor. He\had left his whole fortune In’ soy permanently to Japan, but just Yuei and Pittl Sing, Mo would fie Barrington must have described ici tracted by the arrival of Mme. La- ages ago. It followed mo back to Mng- Japa themacives, when onco they nave Spirit.” trust for her, and the interest was for- to see the country. I think we would the end of one of her black vais to him. Impossible! Really? Not roche Meyerbeer's motor-car with land; and Tam now second seer got used to living In Europe or Amer- "go you are my little cherrysblose f warded regularly to M. Murata by a both of us like to. People say it is a under his hat, and would ask hor since she was a baby? How very Asako, her hostess and another wom- at Christiana, That Is why Tam in jea, ‘They sleep on the floor, thelr gon iy that righ i Tokio lawyer, to be used for her ben- Magnificent country.” whether she liked him better with 4 ¢xtraordinary! A charming country, an embedded in its depths. i fenee monte Carl Micieoducsvouede Slate epg EAT ir onanae) on no, not the women,’’ she re. E her guardian might deem best, ,,°Y0U ure very kind,” said Murata, pigtail so quaint, so original, so picturesque, was the first to leap oyt, She went Then let me ti yout s Lon plied, “the men are the cherry-blos efit as her su “to speak so of 6 pantry. But th “Capt. Geoffrey.’ she would com. such a place to relax in; and then up to her apartment without looking Asako Fujinami, who is now Mrs. the rich ones, somes x i This money was to be the only tle be- foreign people who marry Japanese plain, “it 19 the Chinese who wear the the Japanese girls, the little mousmes, to right or left, and before her hus- Barrington. You must tell her all seep, AAMAS Dai Re ae ea Geoffrey laughed. It seemed absurd tween Asako and her native land ure happy if they stay in their o pigtail; they are @ very savage peo- in their bright kimonos, who came band had time to reach her. Mme, about Tokyo. It 1s her native city; What do you Sec see ly Arig to him to compare a man to the frail ‘So the Muratas took Asako ani country, and Japanese who marry for- ple" fluttering round like little butterflies, Meyerbeer watched th arrow fight but sho has not seen Spieincelalia ak wooo for ths average tra and transient beauty of a flower. . elgners happy if they go aw Then he would call her his little Who were so gentle and soft and grate- and shrugged her shoulders before In long clothes, if Jape $e 4 ri “Then what about the Japanese periehed Her on taUCh Ae Viele heart) trom Japan, But if they say in dae galsha, aud this she resented; tor ahe fuli but there! Captain Bankoted Ineliy ellghting, Wear such things... Lady Georgie, you are asking M® jagies + ne asked, “if the men are n they are not happy. The national knew from the Muratas that geisha Was & married man, that was no af- “Ts all well?’ asked Geoffrey. Aubrey Laking and Barrington had yery searching questions to-day. T jiosomynt é j withered by exile and by unnatural i y i living, were capable of cherishing uny- atmosphere in Japan is too strong for were bad women who took husbanta fair of his, Ha! Ha! “No serious damage,"’ smiled the been at Eton together. They were old don t think I ee ae Axako did not think they had any thing. She became a daughter of the those people who are not Japanese or away from their wives, and that was — The elderly roues, who buzzed lke lady, who is known in Deauville as friends, and were delighted to sired Ele peer rai again for S20ial flower to symbolize thelt J1-to-do French bourgeoiste, strictly *f@ obly half Japanese. They fude. no joking matter. February files in the sunshine of Madame Cythere, ‘but you had better once more. Barrington, especially, — He consider: , rnin for Charms. She suggested, — weil: Lpctiey bd 7s Brich'Y Besides life in Japan is very poor and “What nonsense!** exclaimed Geof- Deauville, seemed to have particularly go and console her, I think she has was pleased to have this opportunity a moment, and then, ra ing is ace The bamboo, they say, because the ; out uffectionately disciplined with the rough. 1 do not like It myself,’ , taken aback by this sudden ro- fruity memories of tea-house sprees seen the devil for the first time." to hear about Japan from one who to hers with thet humorous ¢ nellsDe: wives have to bend under the atorms d Proper restraints on the natural Somehow Geoffrey could not accept proof: ‘they are dear little things and Oriental philandering under the He opened the door of their sunny had but lately left the country, and ing look which Wenner Ww a) °h when thelr husbands are angry, But F growth of her brain and individuality, these as belng the real reasons, He like you, darling, and they bring you cherry-blossoms of Yokchama bedroom, and found Asako packing who was moreover a fluent and agree: the veres of some indiscretion, he re- ¢.cfrey, you aro never angry. Y i * ad ne’ dw long tall with a Jap- te 5 2. ieoftrey ty 0 4 , i had not resided plied, do not give me a chanoe to be like >. 4 vas not very bad Never had a long talic with a Jap. tea and wave fans behind your hee’, — Geoffrey began to be ashamed of his feverishly, and sobbing in spasms. ablo talker, Laking ie + a not & Fi Geoffrey Barrington was not very uneve man before; but he felt that i and I would like to, have twenty ol ignorance concerning his wites native “My poor little darling,” he sald, in Japan long enough to get tired of The Yorhiwaras ta ‘amboo,” ; f favorably impressed by the Murstu they were all like that, so formal, so them—td walt upon you!’ country. Somebody had asked him, Ifting her in his arms, ‘whatever ts Orientalism. He described the quatnt, Yes,'' sald her an) hips qi Next day, he boldty booked thete “ Teaueehold He wondered how so bright unnatural, so recretive, then he hut He would tease her about a sun- what exactly bushido wae He had the matter?’ the picturesque, the amusing side of heard af Puch & pias iA ie 8 ina tickets for Tokio. @ little flower as Asako could have better keep out of the range cf posed fondness for rice, for chopsticks, answered at random that {t y A t fa, took off life in the Kast, He was full of en- of Vanity Fair, ts » fo | the ‘ se cf posed fondness fe 5 . dom th was made Ho laid her on the sofa, took ein the Kasi ay nnd nstgim 7 been reared in such gloomy surrourd- Asako's relatives. for pager umbrellas and jiujiteu. lhe of rice and curry powder By the hex hat, and loosened her dress, until thusiaam for the land of soft voices cocottes of Tokyo? (Bnd Second Instalment.) gm i ‘ ‘ ‘ . _ ees re . 9 ~~ / ——ear « — = — ' = ne ’ - - { 2 ’ ’ ‘ ‘