The evening world. Newspaper, September 21, 1922, Page 28

< PE RAN AT OF rr | ASAKO FUJINAMI, heiress, da brought up and educated in srench convent schools and introduced to London society by LADY EVERINGION,‘a brilliant matchmaker, who did not foresee the result of the bringing together of the two. At the reception toasts are dronk to .he closer unton of Britain and Japan, but both British and Japanese diplomats in the distinguished company evade the suggestion that the couple visit Japan as appears to be their desire. question the wisdom of the sarrnage and doubt the possibility of a happy life tor the pair COUN! SAITO, the Japanese Ambassador, who tells her the Fujinamis belong to the nouveaux riches of japap, but gives little information of their origin or the source of their wealth. A visit to his wife's guardians, the Murat: s, a Japanese tamily living :n Paris, and a sojourn among the cosmopolitans of Deauville sharpen the cesire to see Japan VISCOUNT KAMIMURA, returning tome to wed a bride chosen by his family, whom he has never seen. Barrington in company ith two shocked by the performance. i THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY, THE HONORABLE GEOFFREY BARRINGTON, son of Lord Brandan, a Captain in the British Army, resigns his commission when he weds Lacy Everngton, DS COPYRIGHT, t922. inclosure in ten minutes, Geoffrey ‘This grotesque juxtaposition ts to be Barrington was accustomed to eoun- seen all over Tokyo, lke a tall, try houses in England, with their boastful foreigner tethered to a timid broad acres and thelr lavish luxuri- Japanese wife, hter of Japanese parents who are dead, a Jap P ’ unee of scent and blossom, This Geoffrey inquired in which wing of niggling landscape art of the Jap» this unequal bivalve his host actually lived. “When I returned’ from England,’ ‘aid Count Salto, "I tried to live again in the Japanese style, But we could not, neither my wife nor I, We ‘took cold and rheumatism sleeping on the floor, and the food made us ill; 80 wo had to give it up. But T was sorry. anese seemed to him mean and insig- nifleant , He Count Saito's home, much preterred the garden at Count Saito, the late Ambussador at the Court of Bly Some of the reception guests frankly jumes's, with his stooping shoulders, his grizaled hair and his deep eyes in her anxiety for the young Captain, peering under the gold-rimmed spec- tucles, had proposed the health of For 1 think it ts better for a country Capt. and Mra. Barrington at their to keep its own ways. There is a wedding breakfast, Since then he danger nowadays, when all the world had returned to Japan, where he was soon ‘to play a @ating political role, Meeting Geoffrey one day at the em- is becoming cosmopolitan, A kind of international type is springing up. His language is esperanto, his writing Aboard the ship they meet bassy, he had invited him and his !8 shorthand, &e has no country, he A stop at Nagasaki is the first sight of réal Wife to visit his famous @arden. fights for whoever will pay him most, Japan. A partot the revelation is the Ghonkina, or Geisha dance, seen hy’ Tt was a hanging garden on tho lke the Swiss of the Middle Ag English agquaintances. Barrington is Side of u stcep hill, parted down the He !s the mercenary of commeree, the He 1s disturbed to learn from the talk of middie by a little stream with its !deal commercial traveller, 1 am Americans and ‘knglishnien that marriages with Jagmnese women gre-not String of waterfalls, Along either MUCH afrald of him, because Tam a bank’ rose groups of iris, mauve and J#Patese and not a world eltizen. 1 favorably regarded. (TANAKA, a nondescript Japanese, attaches himself to the Barringtons, follows them everywhere and acgempanies ‘REGGIE FORSYTH, Attache of the British Embassy, musical and romantic, shaking off old attachments ia Paris tor a new one in Japan, the novelty being S \ WAE SMITH, daughter of a Japanese mother and an English father. rington meets Miss smith. who smokes and languishes in Vorsyth’s apart ments at the Embassy. Barrington, trom a talk with, LADY £YNTHIA CAIRNS, wife of the British Ambassador, learns of Yac's many—some fatal—love affairs and of the Embassy's disapproval of For- ‘ syth's engagement to the voung’ woman. §. ITO, lawyer for the tujinami estate. wo has made regular temittances franges for her and her husband to meet the Fu * jinamis of Tokyo, he entertainments fail to impress Barrington, to whom to Mrs. Barrington, Japanese family custo.ns seem od conference discloses the tact that the Pujanami income is derived from the Geisha house. privileges 'in Tokyo and elsewhere, At the same conference Asako's marriage to Barrington 15 should be married to a Japanese, the matter of divorce being casy. the tutelage of her cousin, ASAKO, Barrington’s bride begins to learn something of Japanese family cus- toms and hear about her ‘ather and m@ther, the one a poet, the other a 1 det CHAPTER XIV. ‘The Dwarf Trees. Twa-yado nt fet Tateru maisu no Kt, Na yoo mireda, 7 E Mukashi no hito wo, Ai-miru gotoshi, J © pine tree standing } At the (side of) the stone house, ]; When | look at your +) It ie like sesing face to face |, The men of old time. OR the first time during the jour) ney of their ‘married hives Geoffrey and Avako were pur- suing “aifferent paths, It is the normal thing, wo doubt, for tae man to go out to his work ard to his play, j while the’ wife attends te ter social and do- mestic duten The evening ‘brirgs reunées with new \mpressions and new interests to discuss. Such a life with its brief restorative separa- ions prevents love growing stale, and svothes the irritation of nerves which, by the strain of petty repetitions, are exasperated sometimes into blasphemy of the heart's true creed. But the Werrugton menage was an unusual ue By adopting a life of travel, they had devotedithemselves to a pro- tracted honeymoon, “a relentless tele-a-tete. So Jong as they were con tinually on the move, constantly re- freshed. by new scenes, they did not Teal the difficulty of their self-imposed task. But directly their stay in Tokio eeemed likely to become permanent their ways separated.as naturally as two branches, which have been tightly bound together, spread apart with the loosening of the string. This separation wax so Inevitable that they were neither of them scious of it. Geoffrey had all his life Deen devoted to exercive and games of ail kinds. They were as necessary as food for his hig body, At Tokyo he had found, mest unexpectedly, excel fent tennis courts and first Players. , They still spent the mornings to gether, driving round the city and in speoting curlos. So what could be More reasonable than that Asako whould prefer to spend her afternoons with her ¢olein, who was so onxious te please her and to initiate her into class that intimate Japanese life which of eoursh must appeal to her more Sitongly thom to her husben: Gevfirey found the ite clinging little woman who died when Asako was born. t want my country to be great and ro- spected, Above all, I want it to be al- ways Japanese. I think that loss in national character means loss of na- tional strength." * Asako was being introduted by her white, whispering togetber like tong- limbed pre-Rapnaclite girls. Round 4 sunny fountain, the source of the stream, just below the terrace of the (ount’s mansion, they thronged together more densely, surrounding the musie of the them to Tokyo, vhere Geoffrey meets Bar water with the steps hostess to the, celebrated collection of of a slow surabande, or pausing at dwarf trees, which had made the so- the edge of the pool to admire their clal fame of the Count’s sojourn as own reflection. Count Saito the roses we ties of Amb: Countess ador in Grosvenér Square. Saito, ke her husband, spoke excellent Enflish, and her man ner in greeting Asako was of London howed Geoffrey where * coming on, had new yarie- which he brought from and <ontfadictory. A family business discussed, ‘the decision being, that sie Under company of his Japanese relatived exceedingly slow. In return for the hospitulities of the Maple Club the Barringtons invited a representative gathering of the Fuji- nami clan to dinner at the Imperial Hotel, to be followed by a general ad- journment to the theatre. It was a most depressing meal. No body spoke. All of the guests were nervous; some of tliem about their clothes, some about thelr knives and forks, ‘all of them about their Eng- lish, ‘They were too nervous even to drink wine, which would have been , the only remedy fon such a “frost.’* Only Ito, the lawyer, talked, talked noisily, talked with his mouth ful! But Geoffrey disliked Ito; he mis- trusted the man; but, because of his wife's growing intimacy with her cousins, he felt loath to start subter ranean inquiries as to the where- abouts of her fortune. It was Ito who, foreseeing embarrassment, bad suggested the theatre party after diu- ner, For this at least Geoffrey was grateful to him. It, saved him tho pain of trying to make conyersation with his cousins “Talking to these Japs,"" he said to Reggie Forsyth, “is like trying to pluy tennis all by yourself." Luter on, at his wife's insistenc: . ‘ rather than of Tokio. She took both her hands and shook them warmly. “My dear,” England with him “Perhaps they will not turned into Japanese,’ he ob she suld, in her curious, he attended an informal garden-part) ‘“t"® Tose is such an English flower." deep, hourse volve, “I'm so glad to at the Fujinam! house. Again he They passed on to where the aze see you, You are like a little bit of suffered acutgy from those cruel s:- would soon pe in fer? bloom. Fer London come to say that you have not with the true gardener the hidden forgottep me." lences and portentous waitings, to Promise of the morrow is more Btimu- ‘This great Japinese lady was small which be noticed that even the Pl ; lel it Japasiées amie’ theroneives were, ay to the Bead than the as- and nay Baty ie nih forehead lable, but which apparently they did SUPCd Success of the full flowers was deeply lined and her face was The Count wore bis rustling native marked with 1-pox Her bix not mind. but two black cocker spaniels mouth opened wéle as she talked, like Tea and ice creams were served by lack pal P talked, lik dd at bis heels. This com- a nestling’s, But was imme: ly geisha girls, who danced afterward - ; ‘i bination presented an odd mixture of rich. ‘The only child of une of the upon the'lawn, When this perform- English squirearchy and the daimyo richest bankers of Japan, she hid ance was over, the guests were con- 70 0) MUNIN t ht to her h 1 tl of feudal Ja prought to her husband the oppo: ducted to an open space behind the oppor On the crest of the hill above him tunity for his great gifts as u politic cherry grove, where a little shooting rose the house, a tall Italianate man- leader, and the luxury in which they range had been get up, with a tara sion of gray stucco, softened by lived air-guns and boxes of lead lu . creepers, jessamine and climbing The little trees were in evidence Geoffrey, of course, joined in ‘th roses. Alongside ran the low, irregu- everywhere, decorating, the lying shooting competition and won a hand - lar roofs of the Japanese portion of rooms, posted like sentinels on the some cigarette case inlaid with Di the, residence. Almost all rich Jap- terrace, and staged with the honor due ascene work, But he thought that anese have a double house, half for- to statuary at points &f vantage in the it was a poor game; nor did he ever “ h native, to meet the garden. But their chief home was in realize that this entertainment bad their amphibious existence. a sunny corne the hack of a shrub- been specially organized with a yi to flattering his military and sporting grading habit of solitary’ plano prac- the place of true appreciation, a penes tising on bocpapuceriee = was em- which looks over the art to the d > barrassed but touched by a devotion tist o atest disillusionme: wah the Akasaka garden. Geoffrey P 7 * him; and he encouraged it furtively, lean and skmny half-cagte girl W Was resigned to be bored by every , , When Geoffrey left Eton the friends a gipsy, whom Yao patronized. 8 thing else. But his wife had grown rea tor of a rea ove Aid tae te Sei gthar Laut tor eome Chih edae deeio alin te aint Taam so cnthusiastic about the beauties of years, though they watched each~and then she came alone. : ; ae other's careers from distance, mu- Reggie was relieved, and said the Fujinami domain that he had ox pected to walk straight into a para ing taok place in Lady Bverington's “But 1 brought her for your owill dise, What did he see? A dirty pond , . & drawing room, where Barrington had sake; I always go gverywhere by mya@m ad wome viru, not Ae ae By HAROLD MAC GRATH . pales hear fair ladies praising the self.’ * f j : r , . x s and graces af the young diplo- ‘Then please don't take me int femer to break the monotony of avec Complete ins THE EVENING WORLD Next Saturday rat, “He heard him play the plano; consideration ever again,” answered, and drub, and eye hin, 0 : ‘ Why, be could walk ar the whule Illustrated By will. Bs Jonnstone. -this audience of trees, und raised on and a Greater Redemption TRALEE NASI o aon BY GON! AND LIVERIGHT. bery, where they aligned on were turns to rust. ‘There were spreading the Japanese; “no Woman is. You talking with arabesque agility. It ¥ shelves in the sunlight. Three spe cedar trees, black like the tents of Laos Wee Sia hanging in be big Geoffrey's turn to feel on the wrot clit gardenors who attended to thelr Bedouins, and there were straight ;\c° there. What happens when the side of a vabt superiority, and in them, soothing and titivating them, ships.* along the ground and dies.. Do you and the two became firm frien for their temporary appearance in ‘There was a strange tree, whose Know the Japanese name for wis- Reggie's intelligence flicked the ine! public. Here they had a greenhouse ight green follage grew in round ‘7&7’, Tt 8 fujl—Fujinami Asako, of Geoffrey's mind, quickened If you have any difficulty ever, come powers of observation and develop and to me., You see, I, too, am a his sense of interest in the wo of their own, kept slightly rmed for clumps like trays of green lacquer 4 few delicate specimens, and also for @t the extremities of twisted branches, rich woman; and I know. that it is 4 the convalescence of the hardier trees, & matural etagere. There were the almost as dimicult to be ver) rich as Sound him. Geoffrey's prudence fr eis adi aan * distorted pine trees of Japan, which jt jg to be very poor. ; stolidity had more than once sa’ ‘or these precious dwarfs are quity are the aymbol of old age, of fidelity, Capt: Barrington and the ex-Am- the young man from the brink human in’ theit ailments, their of patience under adversity, and of passador were sitting on one of the *@t!mental precipices. pleasure and their idjosyncracies, fhe Japanese nation itself, in every penches of the terrace when the , Yor Reggie's unquestionable musi talent found its nourishment in lo affairs dangero' He refused to con ‘attitude of menace, curiosity, jublla- tion and gloom. Some of them were leaning out of their pots and staring Countess 8a ito had a hundred or é fashionable pets, of ull ladies rejoined them. ‘Well, Raddy," the Countess ad- dressed her husband in’ English, unsophisticat more of the der marriage wi varieties and shapes, ‘There were viware of any of the sweet young things, w % be ta : Te head downwards at the ground be: hat are you talking about 0 would giadly have rinked ho luke giants of primeval forests reduced to neath them; some were creeping earnestly?" Garer interne: tee ier onalice oe the dimensfons of a few feet, lie the long the carth like reptiles; some “Anout England and Japan,” re- coming an Ambassador's wite F timbers of a lordly park seen through Dade cies sah eine eTetesecdles lied the Count. equally avoided pawning hie youth ‘ j ; . ipedles BDO 6 As a matter of fact, in the course of the wrong@nd of a telescope. There jie a palm; some with one long q \* ym any of the maturer marrieq ladi a rambling conversation, Count Saito had asked his guest “Now, what strikes you as the most surprising difference between our two countries?” % Geoffrey pondered for a moment. He wanted to answer frankly, but he whose status and character, togeth with those of their husbands, licen them to practise as*certified Bge His\ dangerous penchant wag fo highly spiged gdventuresses, and fo pastoral amourettes, wistful and ob- scure. But he neyer gave away hit were graceful maple trees, whose tiny tar-like ' leaves were pprticularly adapted to, the process of diminution had cheeked the growth of unk and branches, pathetic branch were stretching out in quest of the infinite to the neglect of the rest of the tree; some were tall and bent as by some sea wind blowing shoreward. Streaking a miniature landscape, they were whispering to- whieh t There were weeping willows with S€ther the tales of centuries past. was still awed by the canons of Good heart; he lent it out at interest, Hi light green feathery foliage, such ds° gpa’ laPancsey art of cultivating orm. +At last he said: ‘This Yo- recelved it again intact, with the prof corrowing fairies might plant on the healtliy practice, akin to vivisection, *nware business.” * re his Uainoe Gun Vance aaa § ¢ : . r} healthy practice, akin to vivisection, The Japanese statesman! seemed his Haison with Veronique Gerson pro- grave of some ‘Taliesin of Oberof's but without its excuse. It4s like the surprised. duced the publication of “Les Demt t, There was a double cherry in Chinese custom of dwarfing their “But that is just a local difference jours,’ a series of musical poems women's feet, The result is pleasing in the manner of regulating a uni- versal problem,"’ he said. “Englishmen aren't any better than they should be,”’ said Geoffrey; ‘but Jmiration, so easly stir- we den’t like to hear of women put me enthusiastic a& Countess yp for ale like things in a shop.” which placed him at once in the fore: front of young composers; but it al alarmed the Foreign Office, whio was paternally interested in Reggie’ career, This brought about his banish- ment to Japan. The Attente d’Hiver, sd bloom; its flowers of natural » hung amid the slender branches like birds’ nests. There was a stunted oak tte, along the earth with gnarled and jumpy limbs like a -to the eye; but it hurts the mind by its abnormality, and the heart by its ruthlessness. Asako's red, bec: creeping Sulto told her something of the per- «phen you hav all now si ature dinosaurs: It wa hake : #8 oaths hen you have not actual seen no famous, is his eandid musical miniature dinosaur waved in the sonal histo of her favorite plants, them yourself?’ said the Count. He confession that the coma inflicted air a clump of demensurate leaves how this one was two hundred years could not help smiling at the char- upon him by Veronique's unconcer with the truculent mien of boxing se and oa one ae Bunce a actristic British habit of criticising was merely the drowsiness of t glove ers’ clay Be POL: OM SROMSE, cm M on hearsay. ~ waiting earth befoi gloves or Tobsters’ claws. In the present at such and such a scene we Me Mp rmcha eh, famous in Japanese history. Be ee ee “IN| THIS SHADOWY TETE-A- . “You really think that it is bettér TETE BENGATH THE STARS SHE ¢® let immoral women stray about the BEGAN 70 TALK FRANKLY Streets without any attempt to control ABOUT HER OWN LIFE.” them and the crime and disease they cause?" es 51 brought back the old story. c Reggie would never be attracted native women; and he had not the dq inquisitiveness of his predecesso: Aubrey Laking, whick might induo him to buy and keep a woman fog whom he felt no affoction. The lo: which can exehange no thoughts epeech was altogether’ too crude fq him. It was his emotions, rather thi his senses, which were «lways cravit for amorous excitement. His fod body claimed merely its right to low their lead, as a little boat follo the strong wind which filla its s But ever since he had loved Geoffi Barrington at Eton it was a nece! for his nature’ to love some one; as the haze of his young concept! centre of the rectangle formed by had the Yoshiwara built, and he put all the women there, where the police could watch both them and the men who visited them. The English might learn from us here, I think, But you are an unruly people. It is not only that you object for ideal reasons to the imprisonment of these women; but it is your men-who would object very strongly to having the eye of the policeman watching them when they paid thetr visits.”’ oftrey was silenced by the experi- ence of his host. He was afraid, as most Englishmen are, of arguing that the British determination to ignore vice, however disastrous in practice, is a system infinitely nobler in: con- cention than the acquiescence which admits for the evil its right to exist, and places it among the common- “It’s not that," said Geoffrey; “it seems to me horrible that women should be put up to sale and exposed in shop windows, ticketed and priced.” Count Saito smiled again and said: i “T see that you are an idealist like DN ae so many Englishmen. But I am only i} aii t tt REE @ practical statesman. The problem of fF} I rye iy vice is a problem of government. No EY H \ 1 } ; law can abolish it. It is for us states- Sy of \i | men to study how to restrain it and Shia pat { f i AY its evil consequences. Three hundred i [; "4 dks years ago these women used to walk z lt TH file : about the streets as they do in Lan- Sletred, that some one became ne Bik iH i at don to-day. Tokugawa Iyeyasu, the *@fily ® woman. iat ill ; | ‘ greatest of all Japanese statesmen, , He soon recognized the wisdom a a ' who gave peace to the whole country, the Foreign Office in choosing Jap L i 3 put. in order this untidiness also, He It was a starvation diet which ¥ been prescribed for him So he 5 tied down to his memories and Liattente d’hiver, thinking that would be two long years or more b fore his spring blossomed again. Then he hgard the story of the di fought for Yae Smith by two you English oMfcers, both of them Wi lovers, so people said, and vaguer tale. of a fiance's suicid Some weeks later he met her, for ¢ first time at a dance. She was tl only woman present in Japanel dress, and Reggie thought at oni of Asako Barrington. How wise these small women to wear the mono which drapes go gracefully th stumpy figures. He danced with te his right hand lodged somewhere | the folds of the huge bow with t embroidered peacock, which covered her back. Under this stiff brocad Pies oe ite. spout the people who he could feellno sensation of a living make money out of such a place?’ body. She senrned to Tare a: done 4 Asked Gooftrey. “Thay must be con- 12 HST’ twas then that he imagine temptible specimen lenthers te eect ‘The face of the wise statesman be- her as Lilith, the snake girl. § a yanls, penile: danced with ease, so much better thaq paphidied's , béut he, that at the end of a series o I really don't know much about oo nons she suggested that the thei,’ he sqid. “If we do meet them Fit sit out the dance. She guide they do not boast about it. him into the garden, and they tool possession of a rustic seat. In thi hallroom she had seemed timid, a had spoken in undertones only in this shadowy tete-a-tete beneat Ara omoshiro no the stars she began to talk frank); asritees:! about her own life. 1 She told him about her one visit Guar)» | england: with her father; how sh “Oh, they are lovely!" cried Asako. “Where can one get them? 1 must have some."* Countess Saito gave her the names of some well-known market garden- ers. “You can get pretty jittle trees from them for fifty to a hundred yen (£5 CHAPTER XV. Eurasia. Mono-sugo ya a long was a tuble, tidy wisteria arbor, formed by a dozen plants ar- ranged tn quincunx ropes of branches were s\ shining rods of The intertwisted pported on the bamboo; and clusters of blossom, like bunches of 4° ¢19),"" she said. “But of course Yes, but attractive De ice saunter ant han Go grapes of like miniature chandeliers, the real historical trees are sd very Are the flowers which .bloom Me et aeecnare taapens ae still hung over the litter of their few; they hardly ever come on the out of season. asked him about his music. Sh fallen beauty, with a few bird-like La ane dane ite Aer ee Yaga olny he felt a decreasing Wouldil ke te Laer As Bh Then flowers clinging to them, pale and they must have a garden to take interest in the Japanese peo- was an old plano at her home. hy bleached. etheir walks in, and a valet of their ple, Geoffrey was enjoying hls - Wn indeed, Reggie was already He was tired of trav- ; res stay in Pokyo. shuddering in anticipation—oy else “They are over two hundred years “ “iis ereat Japanese \lady “felt an elling, and was glad to settle down in Would she come to tea with him al old,’ said their proud owner, “théy affection and sympathy for*the girl the semblahce of a home life. the embassy? That would be .nice came from one of. the Emperor's who, like herself, had been set apart He was very keen on his tennis. It she coifld bring her mother or one by destiny from the monotonous ranks of Japanese women and their But the’ pride of the collection wero tedious dependence: “Little ‘Asa Chan, Was also a great pleasure to see *0 yey brothers? much of Reggie Forsyth, Besides, ne ..'th @ girl was conscious of the mission assigned morrow? to.him by Lady Cynthia Cairns to save She would rather com friend. Very well, to palaces at Kyoto.”’ she said, calling the conifers -and evergreens—trees ; ae agea ag engl On the morrow she came. pet Lee her by her pet name, “take care; y¥! his friend from the dangerous connec Reggie hated playing in public. HW which haye Japanese and Latin names 7) i tcome Japanese again, but Yours tion with Yae Smith. : weld thet If yas like preeetees nake only, the bindki, the enoki, the sasaki, jusband cannot." Reggie and he had been at ton Proce a multitude, orlike having t the keyaki, the maki, the surgi and yf course not, he's too big,’ together, Gecterey, | t0nr ve itis read one’s own love letters aloud the kusunoki—all trees of the dark laughed Asako; “but T like to run senior, * member 0 4 Pop" and an g°aivoree court. Buf there Js not ‘ A away from him sometimes, and hide athlete of many colors, himsel? ine more soothing than aa SAY funereal families of fir and laurel, PIN The shojl, ‘Then I feel indo- one gay tho object of an almost idol- ore Mtentive listener, especially which the birds avoid, and whose pendent," ie atrois worship onthe part of A skingy that Mutazer be feminine aud it deep, winter green in the summer “But you ave not really so,’ said little being, descreditably clever At jnterest shown be that personal intel Latin verses and given over to the de- eat which with so many womten tak ative, Their next meet- Yae tually appr: laughed and replied: nnd he aise ier gale disceruing judgment (Ceniinued Te-mgrrgew) He heard him 4 4