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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1144, 11 September 1882, Page 2

A good story is told of one of the Japanese officers recently in Auckland and an Auckland lady of fashion, which is worthy of been preserved, Everybody knows that the Chinese and Japanese are not to each other “ dearly beloved brethem,” in fact, that they hate each other with intinate cordiality. An Auckland lady at a recent party took one of the best looking of the officers under her “ amiable wings, and was singularly {xersisent about Japanese custiuns, particuarly those relating to the ladies of that country. “But,” said the lady, after an exhaustive concantenation of queries, “how very shocking it is to tie up their poor feet to keep them remonstrated the officers. “ No, no, no. That is Chinese, and they are barbarians. Our ladies let their feet grow fine and big.” “Indeed,” said the lady, “dotnoy wow large?” At this moment the lady’s foot was shown from under her brocaded dress. “ Well my lady,” returned tiie officer, ‘ ‘ you have a beautiful big foot but they don’t so large as that.” The lady turned crimson, and chaperoned her friend no more. Tho story spread through, the room, and occasion a good deal of merriment. In Crowther’s drag on the way to town an English companion inquired as to, tho correctness of the version ho heard. The officer supplemented his account of the transaction by the following addition :—*, Oh yes, Japanese ladies have very fine feet, but that foot I saw to-night was a wopper !’ ”