Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1916 — Japanese Politeness. [ARTICLE]

Japanese Politeness.

Mr. C. E. Donohoue, the brilliant war correspondent, who succeeded In wiring the fullest and quickest description of the Portugal revolution by hiring a yacht and escaping from Lisbon to Vigo, was kept in Tokyo recently much longer than he wanted. He was making a survey of the East, Intending to reach the Russian front via Serbia, and had trouble in making the difficult journey. He tells this story: “A little Japanese policeman who* had been watching me glanced furtively at a conversation handbook,, and then crossed and spoke in English: “ ‘How do you do,” he said in ful tones, ‘sir or madame, as the casei may be?”’