Queer Things About Japan
Queer Things About Japan
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If you are a man and single you may soon reahse that you are in an Oriental country.
When we riksha'd up to the Club Hotel at Yokohama, we were received by an affable English manager, and shown into a delightful sitting-room with a bay-window looking on the sea, and bed- rooms leading off it. He went out to send us some hot water, which was brought by a man-housemaid 288 HUMOURS OF JAPANESE HOTELS in a blue serge district messenger's suit, with breeches so tight that you could not tell where th...ey ended and the stockings began. Japanese servants do not wait hke waiters, but like district messengers — not like real district messengers, but like the district messengers who are running on the adver- tisement. They do everything at a trot. As they wear no shoes, they sound like dogs. Even the foreign hotels have very few English-speaking ser- vants, not enough to go aU round. It does not signify — any Japanese can be taught in a few hours to recognise the sound of a few essentials hke " hot water," and " whisky," and " matches," and " bath " ; and at meals you go by numbers.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
If you are a man and single you may soon reahse that you are in an Oriental country.
When we riksha'd up to the Club Hotel at Yokohama, we were received by an affable English manager, and shown into a delightful sitting-room with a bay-window looking on the sea, and bed- rooms leading off it. He went out to send us some hot water, which was brought by a man-housemaid 288 HUMOURS OF JAPANESE HOTELS in a blue serge district messenger's suit, with breeches so tight that you could not tell where th...ey ended and the stockings began. Japanese servants do not wait hke waiters, but like district messengers — not like real district messengers, but like the district messengers who are running on the adver- tisement. They do everything at a trot. As they wear no shoes, they sound like dogs. Even the foreign hotels have very few English-speaking ser- vants, not enough to go aU round. It does not signify — any Japanese can be taught in a few hours to recognise the sound of a few essentials hke " hot water," and " whisky," and " matches," and " bath " ; and at meals you go by numbers.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen to read onlineMoreLess
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