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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCV, Issue 10920, 31 March 1896, Page 3

Where t here’s a will there’s a way smoke awa yat Indian Chief Cigarettes. Japan a ad the Japanese have never so complete!) r monopolised the attention of the world I as at the present time., The stories to! d of them—the people and the country - have hitherto been of the “ pretty-’ pretty ” type, and they haye been indulgently considered as interesting, though pitiful burlesques of Western’ civilisat' /on. But,, as the ■ French .proverb says, “ . jive have changed all that,” and the detV srmined character of the Japanese has hey' ai forcibly illustrated in the course of the i memorable struggle between the great / races of tlie' Orient, So near apd yet stf; i different,: ah|4 : ’all their ence, f bow absurdly alike. Japanhas-lseen aptly ''named truly if we’except nunnery of *the Occif one cotddvihardly l/ave .-gone astrt ty (a few yeMS;bact) ih reversingin Japi m the -best esptblished codes of etiquo' tod of . England .or Franco. P ierro Loti,, the French novelist, has giv pn in his little book, “ Madame Grysanth» me, an insight into Japanese customs. Th is story of life ashore during the visit of th o French fleet is instructive as well as ip foresting, especially in the light of later ei /ents, the Japanese war not being t] jought of at the time even of publicat /on. Unfortunately the “opium habit” has, 1 to a certain extent established itself in this beautiful country. It is not so prevalent as in China,, and it is more than likely that it will give place to a much more health-, ful and enjoyable pastime. ■ Vanity Fair Cigarettes are establishing themselves firmly here, as indeed the world over, and already promise to expel their predecessor