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Identifier: recollectionsoff00taft (find matches)
Title: Recollections of full years
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943
Subjects: White House (Washington, D.C.) Philippines -- Description and travel Washington (D.C.) -- Social life and customs
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Washington. I sat on the right of the Minister and next to Baron Sano-miya, the Court Chamberlain, who had conducted our audi-ence. I was greatly interested in Baron Sanomiyas wife.She was an Englishwoman at least twice his size. At Mr. Tafts request the Minister had invited an oldclassmate of his, Baron Tajiri Inajiro. At Yale he wasknown as Tajiri, and the first two letters of both theirnames being Ta he and my husband had been broughttogether in the classroom, seated alphabetically, and hadenjoyed a pleasant association. So Mr. Taft looked for-ward with great pleasure to renewing the acquaintance inJapan. Baron Tajiri, like most Japanese, was a little man,and his teeth were so formed that he was never able tomaster the pronunciation of English in such a way as toenable one to understand him easily. But he seems to haveacquired at Yale a sound knowledge of business andfinance since he became Assistant Minister of Finance un-der Yamagata and had taken an active part in the change 62
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—- V in v. y. —3 § RECOLLECTIONS OF FULL YEARS of the Japanese currency from the silver to the goldstandard, which was a great step in Japans progress towarda place among the worlds powers. He had been made alife peer and sat in the Upper House. At the luncheon hewore a frock coat which Mr. Taft felt confident he recog-nised as an old college friend of the seventies. In thosedays the Japanese wore their foreign clothes only on for-eign occasions or at court. They kept them carefullyfolded up and put away, and they had not yet come to rec-ognise the desirability of pressing them when they took themout for use. Also a silk hat once was a silk hat always;vintages didnt trouble them, and they didnt mind in theleast which way the nap was brushed. Baron Tajiri wanted to be appointed Minister of Fi-nance when Yamagata retired, but he was put, instead, atthe head of the Board of Audits, a life position. Mar-chioness, now Princess Oyama, wife of the Field Marshal,told my husband this on t

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