Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1915 — Japanese. [ARTICLE]

Japanese.

The brightest, best tempered and most polite people in the world are the Japanese. They absolutely do not know what it is to quarrel, and it is said that if you throw* a stone at a dog or cat in Japan, the animal stands and stares at you in amazement —it actually doesn’t know what cruelty means. The Japs are a jolly people and fond of a joke, and they are generous and. trustful to a marked degree. They also have a strong sense of pride, and travelers relate a peculiar instance of this trait. If a traveler is annoyed by being followed by a crow d-^-which, however, is always quiet and respectful—he can cause it to melt away like snowflakes on a hot stove by simply halting and holding out a coin. The Japs feel hnrt at being taken for mendicants. Fancy what the result would be if a traveler adopted this expedient in the fee-tak-ing cities of Europe. He would be almost torn to pieces by the crowd trying to get the cpln.