THE CHINA --MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1951.
It's Good News! Tokyo opinion BRAATHENS split over the
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This bugo Arabian
OKYO, growing bigger, Palace of delights is
Nights called
brighter and noisier It is managed
modestly Tokyo Hot Springs.
by a former than ever, proudly re- colonel in thic Imperial corded a return to its pre Japanese Anny named Kosuo- war population figure of m who is reputed to bave more than 6,000,000 a week
assassinated a Chinese general. or so ago.
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It has public and private batis, a large dancehall with scars hand-picked taxi-dancers,
vast Western-style dining-room former chef in the French Embassy, other dining-rooms and private rooms for tempurn (Prawns cooked in batter) and sukiyaki (Japanese beef and Vegetables cooked in braziers at each table and caton with raw eggs).
the
have been largely covered with new buildings. The "Ment Ball" flag is flying high once more, The wil lows are green along Ginza. The Emperor, hav ing undergone the pro- found and mystical trans- inary sealding Japanese type Mostly the baths are the or- formation from feudal to in which the bather immerses democratic convictions in himself only after ho astonishingly short time, is thoroughly washed. With towel earnestly studying the jelly-
and soup, this service costs 100 fish of Tokyo Bay with his scuses are also available wear-
You (two shillings).
Mas- bespectacled eyes on a ing an abbreviated costume Nobel Prize for scientific which is supposed to beatr literature.
The Imperial Hotel is sull a waxworks museum for em-
hus
some resemblance to a Romars toga.
balmed elderly Occupation As Romans did
officers and their bored wives,
tion
Oriental din
en-
management
the
many
But there is one special pri- but only a handful of Occupa- vate bathroom in which a hot soldiers on leave from milk bath may be enjoyed at a Korea file along the crowded, cost of 10,000 yen (£10). It clattering streets, where the is around this last clop-clop of
Byzantine the wooden Eeta luxury that current controversy (clogs) which
50 many is raging, sedulously Japanese wear, and the warn couraged by the ing cries of jogging rickshaw for pubilcity purposes. coolies still mingle with the There is little evidence that Four of tramcars, hooting like many patrons leaving locomotives, and the never-end- dining-room or the bar 40- ink clamour of impatien: mand a bath in hot milk. But, motor-horns.
the possibility or opportunity fascinates and horrifies Japanese who-while being the All this characteristic Orien-
most bath-conscious people, in tal din and uproar, a learned the world-feet that there is professor suggested. is respon-
something degenerate and sible for the peculiar Japanese milk.
scandalous about bathing in tendency to doze of or to slumber, open-mouthed
"Roman matronis always crowded
trams,
and bathed in milk" declares trains
manager, Mr Kosuomi-an buses at any hour of the day and night.
spirited defence in the news- papers. "And they were El- on this national characteristic,
ways respectable.and democra- Tokyo newspapers have been
tic. Today many Westerners--we trying to ascertain, what makes
and all Hollywood actresses →→→ Mr and.
Mrs Tokyo-san
so enjoy
this refreshing and tired.
healthful experience. "Fatigue caused by able noise!" declared the Pro- fessor.
Visitors having
In
commented
avoid-
A fortune
the
in
"Dad won't find much to bet with in my money-box-I've put it on Gordon Richards already."
London Express Servico
WONDERFUL
QUEEN MARY
SHE DISLIKES nylons, dogs
and young people smoking:
SHE LIKES
children, theatres
and sitting in the park
interesting, but I am afraid It Is too modern for me. Perhaps I am too old-fashioned."
of
Despite her activities of the day Queen Mary often visits n theatro or a cinema in the even- ing
And her favourite places entertainment are by no means all in the West End. She has a robust sense of humour.
The news of London's night |
intently. She likes to hear all the gossip about the fashionable restaurants and the latest night clubs.
OR nearly every child influence on his education quiries; they are sharp, shrewd, Ute always ands her listening
In the world, some and upbringing as she had and searching. where there is a re- on his mother's. fuge from mothers who scold and nurses
•
of
And when there is a big party, especially at Buckingham Palace, Princess Elizabeth her all about it.
goes to 'tell
foible of
Grandmother is usually wear-'
It was out of such questions that 2 who
disconcerting rumour Her strong opposition to was born. forbid. Somewhere there is any form of relaxation from whispered that Queen Mary is as It bagan to be always something nice to
the old "If a Tokyo citizen, has the eat.
dignified code acquisitive as a squirrel; that "All noise in Japan is pitch- soney to alford this Western
of etiquette surrounding the what she likes, she must have. ed a key too high. The bley habit, he can be heartened by ele carries a horn that is loud the knowledge that he is also
For all Britain's royal Court makes Queen Mary
The truth is far from that, that haven is take an exceptional interest Salesmen are perhaps too apt enough for a motor-car.
youngsters The
contributing to the welfare of motor-car has a horn that is many industrious cow-farmers
Marlborough House, home in those highest in the line to mistake her interest, and in- loud enough for a tramcar. The in Hokkaido, whose
of Queen Mary.
of succession. surplus framcar has-a-horn-that-is-loud-milk-would otherwise be wast-
terpret it as desire. Not so. The enough
Often she" Ands Queen Mary' for B steam loco ed in feeding pigs."
Young Prince, Michael of
way she peers Intensely into the sitting at home, still wearing her motive. And the steam loco-
One of her favourite inside of the Whatever motive has a siren that is lout this controversy,
latest thing in out-of-doors hat-a the outcome of Kent, her grandson, is & grandchildren is the Earl saucepans; the way she catches hors.
Tokyo Hot enough for an ocean
constant stean. Springs is meantime making a
caller. His of Harewood. She was the the hem of a mannequin's dress ship."
fortune for its
favourite chocolate cake is first visitor to his home in and, frowning, feels the material, The professor added
backers, Its acidly di
and bars that both candidates in the re-
sure to be waiting for him. are
is just evidence of the keenness ing a lot of Jowellery, too-es cant election for Governor
day and night And of
Just as Queen Mary in- the
curiosity, which has been well as lockets containing minta- Tokyo were pledged to mini- the great chimneys from
furnaces mise unnecessary noise in re houses are pouring out
that heat its
bath
sists on knowing the likes
whetted-oot blunted-by the tures of her children,
surgent Tokyo, but that
thick
and dislikes
years. of her adult both black clouds of smoke to such guests, so she makes suro had relied on leather-lunged a degree that big departmen- teams of
canvassers travelling tal stores along the
that her slowly along
young relatives crowded streets threatening claims for darnage will have just what they in trucks bawling ceaselessly
to fabrics and materials through loud-speakers:
from want to eat. Vote the rain of soot falling like the for Kato-san! Vote for Yasui- gentle rain from heaven upon son!"
There is no doubt that the merchandise beneath.
Queen Mary
spoils the Japanese financial
children. They, are now planning
in turn, similar 3. Both gubernatoriai can- building at Oską, "These new
find her far from dull and didates
evaded committing Western innovations should not old as they meet her in her themselves on another issue be restricted to Tokyo seißsh-sitting-room surrounded by which is headline news
and y."
sald President K. Horl, of table talk in Tokyo today: the
family photographs. Board of Directors Should "sincere and demo- Tokyo Hot Springs. cratic" Japanese
tako
She "Of course we shall have a milk baths at the great
new hat
milk bath-house at the trathauso cum hotel- Osaka Hot Springs hotel too. cum-restaurant-cum danechali "And WO shall have which has been bullt at a Japanese army colonel fabulous price of two hundred manager. These officers under- million yen (£200,000) behind stand discipline-which is need- the
Ginza (Tokyo's leading ed in these democratic estab- shopping thoroughfare)?
lishments of entertainment."
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AT THE DAIRY FARM
Ginza
interests
a
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Contributed by a group of her in- timate friends in recognition of her: 84th birth- day recently, This is the second and con- cluding article.
London's Orme
Nevertheless, flattered business men will often insist on making hasty presentations, for which Qucen Mary gravely thanks them.
When she is alone, Queen Mary sometimes smokes a cigarette, always with a holder. But sho will never smoke in public. And she dislikes to see young people smoking.
Smoking, Indeed, is one of the subjects on which she has strong views. Just as she has on stock- ings. She insists on silk stock- 'ings; nylons she abhors.
It is on these expeditions that Queen Mary buys all the presents sho loves to give through the, year. After she has gone, toy Late night trips from her home trains, furry rabbits, and rubber are not encouraged by Queen Square ducks will bear dew legenda Mary's doctors. But the horri
fled them the other night when,
long after ten o'clock, she went to a 4th floor suite in the Savoy to peo the Festival Illuminations, dangers of a chill. Doctors worried about
the
is out and about when his son was born re. "As purchased by H.M. Queen seeing so much that is new cently.
Mary." They are for the royal in the world, and she always
bables. lodges in her memory in But this frequent ex-
One cidents and sights which change of visits between indications of great age centres of Queen Mary's few children like to hear about. Queen Mary and her young round the gifts she makes. She relatives is only part of her wants to see her presents used. life.
If there is no sign of them, she asks where they are. A symbol But Queen Mary just laughed. It is very unusual to find small favour done her are the confronted with her push- of her ready gratitude for any Just as she did when she was You may have noticed how, when.
the Royal her at Marlborough House signed photographs of herself. chair, Family are together touring In the mornings or some exhibition or show, noons and often, in like the Festival,
the evenings.. children are rarely far away.
Round about the morning hour the sita for hours looking at the gentlest way to introduce it as a from Queen Mary. She moves along slowly, Inspect when suburban housewives sto ing everything, and, asking their shopping the straight tersea are the nest in London," arriving in Oxford Street to do all the questions that
she once backed Daimler
the children play weren't shy.
with
after-
Queen Mary's afternoona are the often spent in her favourite parks; not the fashionable onos, bat Battersea Park or Dulwich.
flowers.
There were many conferences!. about that chair; and the reminder of old age.
The royal wrath was feared.
"I think the flowers in Bat-
Bald. Round her, children would ask if they straight-backed old lady inside knitting. Censionally a mall it from its pneumatic tyres to its ood mothers sit Instead, Queen Mary studied of dog will yap and Queen Mary soft upholstery and then she sat
will' frown. She is not fond In it. of dogs.
Royal bablos, too, have many opportunities for get ting to know Queen Mary;, She is always calling to sed
how they a are progressing.
is sweeping through the gates Marlborough House.
Queen Mary in on her way to explore one of London's many exhibitions.
.... "It is quite comfortable," sho
said, approvingly.
Marlborough House has névér Now the Festival Fun Fait is thần now?
looked more graceful or pleasant But Queen famished
"Queen Mary · has
It with wonderful
Het insky in colhole. It doesn'! in Battered Park. She takes a very loving matter whether it is a dimlay of Mary can still go on her Sunday antiques, each with a little plate Interest in Prince Charles, alulral implemente, anti- afternoon Jaunt to
and Princess Elizabeth in sucs, or of exquisito needlework, Park, where as she is apt to attached, giving its history. nino enger, to have her, ad- the suma fican stand to stand say, she often played as a ....... It is a charming home for the vice.
mining "nothing. -
upright old lady who, armed with
and bag of
The questions who asks sro e bas already made up her creams, insist on stepping out the young Prince legendary among exhibitors. Britain. After, she had been and keeping a bright eya on the... grows, Queen Mary may and aro: often rather dreaded puuted round in her shiny played work claim to è ́an-great-al- For they we not mero polite in- chair the maid:"","13 le ali viry
—(London: Exprane #violenjska.