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DAW.
Our conversation was rather slow at first as he had ofton to THE CHANGE THAT HAS COME refer to his lexicon (he never called
OVER JAPAN.
GLAMOUR DISAPPEARS.
L
IN GRANADA.
DWELLERS IN HOMES DUG OUT OF THE MOUNTAIN.
IN SPAIN TO-DAY.
[it a dictionary) or to hja English Grammar, His third book was "Synonyms and Homonyms.” He Bald that he carried it because there were so many words in the English During my wanderings, round language that had the samo moan-
[By M. P. Willcocks.] the world In tramp ateamers I have ing. Whon 1 Jearned French as a more than once visited Japan, and boy we were taught auch sentences From sleep to the wild beating of always seem to meet the Japan- as "The lady is in the garden," or the waves, filling the room with ese student learning English. His the book is on the table." But their insurgent rear. English is very different from the he had no sentences of that kind. It is dark night, but from the native barber's; different from the IIis were all inquiries and personal window, next door comes a woman's English of the gentleman who sells inquiries at that. Our converon-cry. Chico! Chical Chice! three you Satsuma ware, cloisonne ware, tion went something like this: "I times, answered by a man's voice kimonos, or silk, The bumboat hope your father is well" I re from below, something like, ma-na- man speaks in broken English or plied that to the best of my know-na-na; a deep voice that hooms like in the vernacular of the forecastle. ledge he was; and then my student the tide serenade, I have awakened "Plenty good tinga time, sir, dam went through all my relations and) in Spain, among the Basque fisher- fine Johnnie Walker, saki, beer all it seemed to give him great pleasure men. ri" On my first visit to Japan to know that they were all well. And last night I saw Cervantes at the boatman wear native garb, Had I any relations in Japan? No! the passport office, with a long, kimono, native hose, and sandals; I hadn't. He was sorry about that. lean, wrinkled face, as sardonic as to-day he weurs khaki knickers, Were my children well? I hadn't the Don'e. For Spain has been well puttees, and boots, but otherwise in
served by her artist-interpreters, 'by, much the same. The barber's Eng-
Velasquez, Cervantes and El Greco. lish is limited. He will inform you
Three types of men's faces there that he "ahaves, cuts hair and
are here: Sancho, round and merry. corna, cleans ears and hand," but;
who herds the goats and plants the after that you must carry on any
vines and alives in those mathe- conversation with him by gestures.
matical lines that cover the hill- At one time a bar of soap would
sides; close is he to the earth, command his services for a long time. Nowadays he will only deal. in yen or sen, and, like the bum- boat man, he has changed his at- tire. The merchants (as they call themselves) who sell you the beau- fiful wares of Japan have changed but little. On board they have al- ways worn Western clothes, but when you visit them ashore in their shops they are dressed. as onc hopes to find them, in the clothes. of Japan. I don't know where they learn their English. I think that most of them have learned it in England or in the United States. You only And one, or sometime two, in each shop who can talk Eng- Mish.
THE DIRECT OPENING.
Rear Admiral Mark Bristol, Commander of the Asiatic fleet.
Then there is the melancholy joker found in all classes, and third, the pure thinker, dr intellectual, who crowds the canvases of EI Greco and aits to-day in many professorini chair. Such ́a
man is
apt to have wonderful hands, more quickly expressive than the quiet, subtle face.
“NOT BREAD BUT MARZIPAN”
It was Cervantes who warned us of those who seek for beiter bread than wheaten. And most people since the days of Gil Blus seem to seek in Spain, not bread, but Marzipan-fans, guitars and exotic beauty, Spain of the opern, in fact. But wheaten bread, in fisherman and peasant, is good, though no doubt the extraordinary fascination of this country lies in the fact that here the exotic meeta the European and you can see the place where the join comes.
I like the Japanese way' of open- ing a conversation. They come to the point at once; tell you who they; are, what they are, and what they want. Take, for instance, the Cus-
The vast plains stretch on and toms officer who remaina on board
on, for "there are no curves In all the time you are loading or dia-
Castile," cultivated, yet with in- charging cargo, When he first
visible workers. Sancho only shows boards you he will come out with, any children, in fact I wasn't here and there as a goat-herd with clearly, "I am the Imperial Cas-married. He was very very sorry his following flock, or ploughing, toms, I require food and lodgment about that. He never departed many together in a long team. The while I remain on board.” Then from asking questions and never very plains of La Mancha these; he will bow and smile all round volunteered any information about with the hill of the thiry windmilla after he has said his piece. When himself, although I tried to draw where the Don tilted with shadows I first visited Japan he brought his him out. His remarks were always on the mountain black as ink, a' own food and slept on the softest"Oh! I am sorry," or "Ah! I am blood-red sun setting over the plank he could find on deck. Now glad." His only variations were, snowy Sierra and an eagle poised in he fully expects to
dine at the "Ah! I am not sorry," and "Oh! the air. Villages high on the crags. Captain's table.
Then you have I am not glad." I shall not soon like clusters of hirds' nests, with the doctor who visits you on ar-forget that voyage. My room was the square church on the topmost rival. "I am the Imperial Medical between the chief's and the third peak, Officer, and am ordered to examine officer's, and for the rest of the your crew for any ailment which voyage I seemed to hear "Ohl' they may possess"-just like that, am sorry," or "Ah! as if small-pox was a gift!
I
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THE CAVE DWELLERS.
Close to the earth, all this, and I am glad,"
closest of all are the peasant cave- most hours of the day. Even the I once believed that the proper skipper got to hear of it, and one literally on top of their heads. Each dwellers. Here on the hill we live way to begin a conversation morning, when I had forgotten to Japan was very different from this wind the chronometers, instead of cave is dug into the bowels of the You started off with: "Will the being sworn at as any man would mountain among the prickly pear, Honourable Gentleman deign to or expect, I was told. "Oh! I am not the back. Whole streets of these in
two roma ugually with a bench at! "May the humable servant of the
glad." Still, I liked that student. Honourable Gentleman beg," but He had perseverance.
I will only places, each lighted by electric light that's all bunkum. Perhaps they any that if I am to meet him again and numbered, with awarma of bare- talk that way to one another, but and he has meanwhile enlarged the footed, black-eyed healthy children. In my numerous visits to Japan. I never heard an Honourable Gentle cope of is repartee, I am
sorry. "Manchester Guardian," man" or "a Humble Servant" mentioned. The student begins his conversation ́exactly ns. the Customs officer and the doctor. “I ama Japanese student learning English, and would be grateful for Instructions."
BAULKED BY BRAW SCOTS. My first meeting with him was at Moji, where we were loading
AFTER AN OPERATION
not
This Lady in Ceylon Was Left Bloodless and Weak
Until She Took
DR. WILLIAMS PINK PILLS.
You seem never to see a sickly Spaniard, not even among the wrinkled figures of age. In one deep road-cutting is Our Lady's Chapel, with the Via Crucis above the door. Here are five grottoes, one leading into the other cut out of [the grey-pink rock that is the colour. of Spanish earth, and of El Greco's Toledo.
An altar in each care, and in the farthest one, the thing of which Our coal for Singapore in a Glasgow
Lady is the symbol-a living tramp. I was sitting in my room. Even in temperate climates sur-mother and baby. First you come when he came
on board, and gical operations of any magnitudo on baby-clothes drying, and then, in through the open port I heard him must of necessity sap the strength the grotto beyond the wax figures speaking to the chief engineer. "Undergone in the traples they are ad altars, the mother's bed, cover- am a student learning English." doubly weakening and dangerous ed-of all things--with a "Paisley Then pause.
"I hope you are because the patient usually is alshawl" pattern covariét. well?" He pronounced every word ready thin-blooded and debilitated,
NO FAIRIES IN SPAIN. As a restorative after operations separately and distinctly. It didn't sound a bit like a sentence but like Dr. Williams' Pink Pills stand pre- She is a small woman, like all the five words spoken. "I'm no' saa eminent, for the reason that not Spanish, brown, kindly, and very bad" answered the chief. "An' yer only do they rapidly replace lost young, with a tiny Sancho in her learnin' English, are ye? Well, strength and build up shattered arms, who looks as if he always away you and catch haud o' the nerves, but also they supply to the wanted to snooze, but couldn't second mate. He's the wee. Iad enfeebled system new rich, red "Five pesetas for the baby;" the that can talk the English. Ye've blood at every dose. The case of whole clan, grandfathe, grand- come to the rich ship to learn ft Mrs. E. C. Buckley, of '92 Avenue, mother and husband, are called from His speech was of the Clydeside Dehilwela, Colombo, Ceylon, is il across the road to rejoice. and must have been like Sanskrit lustrative of their unique health- to the student. I looked through restoring power's. the port and saw a small youth of "I underwent a serious operation about eighteen amiling and bowing for tumour six months ago and lost
Facing it all are the snows of the Sierra Nevada, above the scrub and prickly pear, which in the buraing. light looks grey-green to eyea just
to the chief, his hands hidden in a great deal of blood," said Mrs. come from a cave...
the wide sleeves of his kimono and Buckley recently: "I was in hos- Such is Spain of the wheaten three books tucked under his arm.pital for two months and when I bread. Shadows are black "in this He looked sndly distressed for all came home was still in a very wank land and mists raro; there are no his smiling face at his 'inability to stale. So, acting on the advice of faires In Spain and but fow dream- understand, but he got hold of one a friend, I took a course of Dr. era.
word anyway. He had asked if the Williams' Fink Pills. These. Pilis Ouly here is a grip on life, a joy chief were well, and the chief had have certainly dose me a great in more breathing and eating, a answered "Bad." So he started off deal of good. They have given me joy that, In the intellectuals, would again.I am sorry that you are appetite and built up my strength, seem to have kept the country from that pursuit of vanity, of weakh and success, which makes the sup- „posed' greatness of other nations.
There is, to, I think.`n great
not well, that you are bad.”
A FIRST MEETING.
I am up and about again, and now have great faith in Dr. Williama' Pink Pils,"
"I did'na may I was bad. I said. Equally good for both sexes, Dr.
I wie no' nea bad, meaning I'm, Williams' Pink Pills for Pale consciousness of death no good is fine."
People have enfoyed a world-wide the life of the body, and an evor- This answer made matters worse, renown extending over forty years present memento-morî In the and secing his eyes wander to the as a remedy for anaemia, nervous square cyprese-guarded enclosures gangway I went to his assistance debility, early decay, digestive of death out on the plains, an and invited him into my room. He weakness, rheumatism, malaria, You feel the eternal rhythm of came, after taking off his sandals, also for the ncher and ills 'which the waves of death and life very In England you take off your hat only women know. Your chemist clearly in this great sun-bathed land, on entering a house; In Japan you can supply them, or post free, where peasnits in their working, take off your boots. He was a $1.50 per bottle, $8 for 6 bottles, clothes carry the' coffin." shouldar- little frightened-shy I think would, from The Dr. Willams Medicine high to the grave Dally. News be a better word--but he was Co., 00, Klangse Road, Shanghai. and Westminster, Gazette.
MONDAY, JULY 16, 1928.
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