Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1902 — Signs in Japan. [ARTICLE]

Signs in Japan.

The peegfle of Japan have a mania, for English signs and they flood the rooms at hotels with English cards. They have no Inspirative mood, and they generally express an idea negatively which w,e-express positively. One day a traveler said to a waiter: “Kishi, the rolls are cold.” “Yes,” he said, ‘‘a good deal of hot .cooling the cakes is good.” A conspicuous notice at a leading hotel reads: “On the dining time nobody shall he .enter the dining and drawing room -without the guests allow.” One of the articles in the municipal laws of Kioto reads: v “Any dealer shall be honestly by his trade. Of course, the sold one shall prepare to make up the safe package.” A Tokio dentist’s circular reads: “Our tooth is an important organ for human life and countenance, as you know; therefore, when It is attacked by injury artificial tooth Is useful. I am engaged in the dentistry, and I will make for your purpose.”