Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1904 — Japs Railway Etiquette. [ARTICLE]

Japs Railway Etiquette.

When a lady enters a Japanese railway carriage she slips her feet from her tiny shoes, stands upon the seat and" then sits demurely with her feet doubled beneath her. A moment later she lights a cigarette, or her little pipe, which holds just tobacco enough to produce two good whiffs of smoke. All Japanese people sit with their feet upon the seat of the car, afid not as Europeans do. When the ticket collector —attired in a blue uniform —enters the carriage he removes his cap and twice bows politely. He repeats the bow as he comes to each passenger *> collect the tickets from them.