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When You Meet In Japan

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Parent Issue
Day
8
Month
July
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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Nothing is more amusing than to watch twoacquaintancessaluting in the streets of a Japanese town. As they come in sight of each other they slacken their pace and approach with downcast eyes and a verted faces, asif neithet was worthy of beholding the other. Then they bow low, so as to bring the face on a level with the knees, ou which the palms of the hands are pressed. A succession of hissing sounds is next made by drawing in the breath between the closed teeth, interspersed with a series of complimentary phrases uttered with great volubüity in a sorlf of undertoned falsetto, each trying to-outdo his friend in rapidity and extravagance of language, while the palms are, diligently rubbed against each other. At last the climax is reached, and each endeavors to give the precedence to the other. For some moments, perhaps for a full minute, the poli te contest continúes. Then the ceremony abruptly ends, as if the difficulty were capable of none but a brusque solution, and the two pass on hurriedly, with a look of extreme relief.

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