A JAPANESE LADY S VIEWS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11762, 19 October 1906, Page 4

A JAPANESE LADY S VIEWS.

Japan is sending out teachers to imbibe the wisdom of other lands in order to bring back anything worth appropriating to the improvement of their own. So Suini Miyakawa has been deputed by the Minister of Education at Tokio to learn all she can of British Domestic Economy and Hygiene, in order to lecture on these subjects on her return to Japan. She is now taking most up-to -date subjects at the Bedford Collego for Women, sne preserves all her national convictions as to the value of that submissive "obedience and loyalty which constitute the "bushido, " or highest aim of Japanese morals. There is not quite outward evidence enough for her of the English regard for Church and State. "Yes," she said, "before I came to England, I thought all English love their spires; now I see all do not love them very much. But I think when English no more love their spires, there will be no more success for England." As for the freedom for British girlhood, she is amazed, and perhaps hardly admiring, while literature gives her prejudices a frequent shock. "It is not proper for us_to think about marrying any particular person ; it is arranged by parents. With us, such a story as that of 'Lord Ullin's Daughter' could never happen ; but no doubt for English girla it is quite right." Sumi Miyakawa maintains that "The Darling of the Gods," played 'recently. tn^London, gives entirely .false not'ions."bf morals and customs in Japan.