A KNEELING NATION.
The Japanese may be described appropriately as the Kneeling Nation, Bince they do almost everything on their knees that we do eitting'or standing. So writes a correspondent who has just returned from a visit to Japan. Whenever a guest, be he native or foreign, arrives at^the inn, the host and his wife and all the servant girls drop down on their knees till the nose almost touohes the floor. The same is done when he leaves the inn. In this respect Japan has not changed, except in a few large hotels in Tokio, Nikko, Kioto, and other Qitiea, which are kept by Japanese proprietors almost > exclusively for foreigners, sincajew. natives are able or willing to pay twelve shillings to fifteen shillings a day when they^can be comfortably housed and fed in a genuine Japanese inn for about four shillings. In such an inn, again, it would be considered a breach of etiquette if the servant girl, on being called to a guest's room by clapping the hands, did not get down on her knees before inquiring what is wanted. The Worlds Fair to be held in Madrid hi 18H4 will- seek to uurpius the .Coli/mbiaa ii-xpositipnln all the atfriWufes ofgreatueas. It is h yeiy large undett»king for Spain.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 2 December 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)
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211A KNEELING NATION. Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 132, 2 December 1893, Page 2 (Supplement)
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