SHOULD WHITE WED YELLOW?

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 19 February 1907, Page 4

SHOULD WHITE WED YELLOW?

WHY JAPAN WANTS MIXED. MARRIAGES.

An address delivered at the Nippon Club in New York by Mr. Aoki, Uie ■Japancse Ambassador, urging his countrymen to marry American women, is typical of many recent Japanese utterances to the same effect.

Mr Aoki congratulated those members of the club who had American wives. A Japanese reporter's translation -of his speech included this remark:

"Make yourselves worthy of the love of millionaires' daughters, and when your father-iu-law become aware of your merits they will assist you in every way possible." The advantages of such marriages from the Japanese point of view and their drawbacks for Americans are noticed in a letter from a Tokio resident (Ryogoku) in the "Japan Times" of November 10.

"It is generally admitted by the Japaiiese themselves that, they are inferior to their western neighbours. On an average a Japanese adult is about the size of a sixteen year old boy in America. The offspring resulting from such unions are a cross, being neither so small a.s the one nor so large as the other. That the Japanese people desire to be larger is as apparent as their diminutive size. That they also admire the features of the foreigner is also plain. Shortly after the decease of General Kodama, one of his friends remarked that ho looked like a foreigner. 1

one nor so large as the other. That the Japanese people desire to be larger is as apparent as their diminutive size. That they also admire the features of the foreigner is also plain. Shortly after the decease of General Kodama, one of his friends remarked that ho looked like a foreigner. 1 myself also have noted that his walkwas much like an Englishman's. "So when the Japanese father sees his little son, by a western mother, a. little above the average, he has cause for rejoicing; but when the American mother looks on her little boy, by a Japanese father, and notices his short stature, sallow skin, and bowed legs, nothing but parental love can cover up such serious defects."