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...Tokio, he visits his Aunt Teresa, a domineering invalid who in 1914 rapt Emmanuel Vanderflint, her Belgian army husband, to the Far East, chiefly because it was far. With them, ''just like one family," live other refugees, a mother, sister and two daughters Vanderphant. Also Aunt Teresa's daughter, Sylvia Ninon Therese Anastathia -long legs, dark brown hair, hazel eyes, guileless, 16, attending convent. She reads "Questions and Answers" in the Daily Mail. Georges quotes her the poets, plays Tristan and Isolde on the piano. They kiss a little and call pet names...
...itinerary will be as follows: Landing in Yokohama, the party will visit in Japan, Tokio, Niko, Kyoto, Kobi, and Nagasaki. Fujyama will be climbed. Thence the expedition will proceed to Korea, where Chemulpo and Seoul will be the points of greatest interest. Wild boar and tiger hunting will be engaged in here...
Married. Princess Nobuko Kuni, sister of the Crown Princess Nogako of Japan, to one Kosei Sanjo, commoner ; in Tokio. To marry one below her in blood, she was obliged to forfeit her rank...
Another is likely to be added to the list when Congress assembles; for it is understood that the Administration will recommend that an expenditure of $1,150,000 be made to acquire land and build a new Embassy and Consulate in Tokio, where the old (and inadequate) Embassy was destroyed by the earthquake...
...tirades of voluble fanatics, like Mr. Bryan, against the scientific spirit and religious heterodoxy of Harvard, are bound to find another salient of attack. Reverend George H. Thomas of Chicago sponsors the estimate that forty-four hundred eighty students out of forty-six hundred at the University of Tokio are atheists. The so-called atheism of Harvard, of perhaps a half dozen out of the entire student body, is utterly buried beneath this avalanche of revolt in Japan...