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Title: Queer things about Japan
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton, 1856-1947
Subjects: Japan -- Social life and customs
Publisher: London, A. Treherne & co., ltd
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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andlard sweetmeats, and custard made with pickle,and fish juice, are novelties too striking for themale European stomach. When you are drown-ing you catch at straws, and when you are havinga Japanese banquet you hail with gratitude theappearance of anything you know by sight, likea plum or a potato; but it is only a fresh formof torture, for the plum is sure to be salted andthe potato cooked in syrup ; and even if the thingswere good to eat, you could not help yourself withchop-sticks—its too like eating soup with a fork.Undeterred by your not eating any, the dinnergoes on for hours, while you wonder which willhappen first—your knee-hinges burst or yourcalves go flat. If you have been to a Japanesebanquet before, you bolt to a wall directly youget into the room, and prop yourself up against it.That is the only way you can sit on the floor forhours. The mousmees are so pretty and so nicethat if you do get up to go in the middle, theyalways persuade you to kneel down again. When150
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