A MATTER FOR INVESTIGATION.
A rather amusing story is being told by a Japanese gentleman in connection with the late Emperor of Japan. As we know, the late Emperor was regarded with the greatest veneration by his subjects, and it appears that this attitude of awful reverence was maintained also by his Ministers, in spite of the fact that affairs of State made it necessary for them to see him and converse with him very frequent-
One of these Ministers, the Marquis Matsugata, used to experience agonies of nervousness every time he had an audience of his Sovereign, and he was never able to say anything distinct in reply to him except the sot phrase: “I shall have careful investigation made, your Majesty.” This generally brought him through a short audience, but one day unfortunately the Emperor condescended to discuss the Marquis’s more private affairs.
“How many children have you?” the Emperor asked. Back came the inevitable phrase: ‘‘l shall have careful investigation made, your Majesty!” The story loses nothing from the fact that the Marquis had a very largo family indeed.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 January 1913, Page 2
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182A MATTER FOR INVESTIGATION. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 21, 23 January 1913, Page 2
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