A JAPANESE ON ENGLISH

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 190, 21 November 1910, Page 8

A JAPANESE ON ENGLISH

Mr. H. Kanazawa, a Professor of English in the Press School, Tokio, is now in London, and he writes an interesting criticism of English men and women in the Morning Post: "English people forget that the relations between the sexes in their country are very peculiar. First of all, men and women do not enjoy themselves in each other's society so much as elsewhere. The men play games or sit in their clubs and smoking rooms by themselves. The lovers in the parks are silent, and have no pretty ways for each other. They hope only that friends will see them with girls in fine dress. "In Japan there is 110 enjoyment for young people without the society of women. Our men are more immoral than the British, but we understand women better, and although we are somtimes brutal, we can please them when we like. "In the old days lack of appreciation of women did not matter; perhaps it was a good thing, it kept the Englishman moral and hard at work. But now strength only will not bring him a wife. For although Englishmen are not so much in need of female society, they must desire a home.

"Therefore my answer to my friend's question is that the suffrage movement —which is aimed at laws made by men —is due to a subconscious feeling of dissatisfaction with the general attitude towards women of Anglo-Saxon men."