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Title: Queer things about Japan
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947
Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, A. Treherne & co., ltd
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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A Tvs. UOTTCTT TEA-HOUSES AND GEISHA GIRLS it is aU over comes the unkindest cut of all. Polite-ness demands that you should make a separateexcuse for each dish that you cannot eat. Thisis not the slightest use, for, as you are getting intoyour riksha, the mousmee who has waited on youhands you a pile of white wooden boxes in which shehas carefully packed everything that you could noteat, for you to take to your family, and etiquettedemands that you should take them, though yougive them to your riksha boy as soon as you areout of sight. Etiquette is the Kaiser of Japan. It is no good having a geisha while you aregoing through these tortures; you are not in astate of health to make allowances for their voicesor their music, and their wit is lost upon you,which is perhaps just as well. The geisha, exceptin the kind of ballets you get at the Maple Club,is not suited to the European market. She doesnot, as the unco guid assert, belong to the oldestprofession in the world—not necessarily

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