Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1909 — STARR TO MARE HIMSELF A JAP [ARTICLE]

STARR TO MARE HIMSELF A JAP

Educator Is to Bo Shepkeopor oo Street to Tokyo. WILL STUDY THE HIPPORESE v*■ . University Professor Proposes to Go to the Realm of thsMiksdo and to Do In That Country Only the Things Which Are Dons by the Little Brown Men— He Will Be Away From Chicago Nearly a Year. Chicago, Aug. 17. —Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago, noted anthropologist, ethnological explorer and author, Is about to undergo a most remarkable metamorphosis. In a few days he will say goodbye to America, to Caucasian institutions and Caucasian dress. In so far as It is possible for an American of middle age, he proposes to became a Japanese. A month hence will see the famous educator and investigator in the role of a shopkeeper In a busy street of Tokyo, garbed in Nipponese costume, observing the Nipponese ways, and to the best of his ability chatting in Nipponese with the Orientals who come to buy his wares. Professor Starr's trip will cover ten months, and during eight months he will live the life of a subject of the Mikado. Professor Starr’s purpose is to make the most complete study ever attempted by an Occidental of the life and traits of the Japanese. His investigations will be deeper and more intimate than even his researches In the Congo. The results, it is expected, will be quite as interesting as his studies of American life, w’hich led him to the conclusion, expressed In a recent magazine article, that,.civilized woman is a barbarian and a savage.