Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 226, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1915 — HAS MANY WESTERN TASTES [ARTICLE]

HAS MANY WESTERN TASTES

Emperor of Japan Is by No Means Altogether Eastern In His Manner of Living. A native Tokyo paper has published a series of articles about the home life at the imperial palace. The late Meljl emperor, it seems, was devoted to native dishes, but his majesty Yoshihito, reared on more modern lines, has broader tastes in food. On the other hand, the late emperor used a foreign bedstead, while the present monarch prefers to lie on Japanese quilts. There is now a billiard room, an imperial bathtub, and electric lighting. /

While the Meiji emperor preferred Japanese cooking, particularly of the Kyoto style, which uses more salt than the Tokyo cookery, the Taisho emperor takes more kindly to western diet. His breakafst consists of bread, milk and coffee; as a rule the luncheon also is usually Yoshoku, but the dinner pure Japanese.

His taste in food is that of a connoisseur. The emperor fancies the salmon trout of Lake Chuzenji. During a summer Bojourn at Nikko one year, the cook tried a substitute, but at the first morsel it was detected. For reasons of health he does not take any sake, but a little sherry or other wine occasionally. His majesty wears the uniform of a general, even in private, till after the evening ablution, when he wears a crested kimono.