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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1958-09-10, Page 5Many people who have not been to Japan have the mistaken idea that geisha girls are call- girle; they are not. In no cir- cumstances could a man, either a Japanese or a visitor, drop in at a tea house and get fresh with one of these girls. He'd be hustled out of the place in- stantly: very slowness is an added pro- tective advantage. Primitive man has an instinctive teal of any slow-moving creature. Con- sequently, even today, there is a deep-rooted tradion amongst South American natives that sloths must never be killed. The sluggishness of a sloth's external movements is coupled with, and probably caused by, a sluggishness of all its internal organs. Its body temperature is well below that of other mam- mals, and apparently capable of wide variation between 75 and el degrees F. Another rarity: in most mam- mals food takes only a day or two to pass right through the creatures gut. 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A young Deeside woman who took first honours at a leading school of domestic science, she has supervised the cleaning only for the past three years. The housekeeper's room is really an office lined with filing cabinets stuffed with photographs of every room in the Palace. King. George V was once an- noyed after a spring-cleaning because all the old familiar things In One room were not ppiraecCoiSely in the accustomed The photographs have been taken regularly ever since to ensure that each' piece Of fur- niture is replaced in its former position. Probably no one, including Mrs. Fitirliater, has ever in- spected all the Palace, On the Southern 'side, for instance, there are staff apartments that only their occupants enter, The true ownership of A cup- board on a landing was once unsettled for years between the occupants of two of these Palace fiats, Each one thought his neigh- bout responsible, Eventually, the muddle Was sorted out, and, the cupboard was cleared for the first tithe years, At the back, rolled in canvas, was found a museum-worthy set of carpenter's thole which lied 3b,ceas,enr lrimpcned for at least 120 Royal .Palace Gets Annual Every August, when the Roy- al Family moves to Lialmoral, the bags herald the big brush, and vacuous- cleaner IDOrnhard- rnent of the annual Beekinge ham Palace overhaul. The State. Apartments and the 590 admin- istrative and residential rooms can't be spring-cleaned early in the year when the investitures, receptions and other royal fnne- tions in London are at their height, So it develops into a summer-clean lasting a month, though mailer clean-ups are also held when the Royal Fam- ily is at Sandringham or Wind- sor, New extra-duty chars are taken on, and it's an opportun- ity for many ordinary women to catch a glimpse of the inter- ior of the Palace which they might otherwise never see, Spe- cial passes are issued, and there's some grumbling about the precautions that have to be taken. But the checking in and out proved necessarry when one of the Mrs. Mopps was missing. She was found hiding in the organ loft in the ballroom, and explained she had been hoping for an opportunity for an extra look'-around. In fact, security precautions have to be kept exceptionally tight during the cleaning be- cause there are so many strang- ers walking about. A man once tried, to walk off with two ex- quisite vases, wrapped in brown paper, which would have fetched hundreds of pounds in a, sales- room. Some of the Palace treasures are secretly whisked to other parts of London at this time. Every "year, several precious old masters from the picture gal- lery are entrusted to picture re- storers outside the Palace. Not long ago the two gold-encrusted phoenix armchairs from the Throne ROom — worth theuse ands of pounds—were sent out- ride the Palace for the ,first time in 40 years so they could be thoroughly overhauled in a specially-equipped workshop. Curtains and carpets are sent away for 'cleaning. The sham- , pooist of s a wonderful Aubusson carpet had a shock when she caught the glint of diamonds' in the carpet folds, A diamond brooch had been caught up in the hem — and the discovery solved a two-year-old Palace mystery. A young bride who was privileged to attend a Palace party had reported the loss of the brooch, but servants had looked for it in vain. Dust is never swept under the Palace carpets, but in this case the diamonds had evidently been kicked into the carpet hem! Even stranger -lificaveries have been made. The queerest was undoubtedly that of a Pal- ace footman who moved an or- nate and heavy lamp-standard and found beneath it a plate of five false teeth embedded in a meringue. Then there was the extraordinary fan mystery of the Blue Drawing Room. One of the largest rooms in the Palace, this lovely apart- ment is so high that the cornice near the ceiling can be cleaned only from the top platform of a four-tier, collapsible derrick. Yet one year, the workman found a delicate and valuable fan resting on the broad ledge of the cornice. How it got there remains an inexplicable riddle. No guest could-have thrown it and risked damage to the _china ornaments cr chandelier if it fell. A mute witness to an enigma, the fan is now in the South Kensington Museum. The derrick is also wheeled into position for the careful scrutiny of the crystal chande- Eel's with which the Palace abounds. Periodically, e a c h chandelier is lowered on to 'dust-sheets. The brilliants are unthreaded, washed and polish- ed, then rethreaded on new cop- per wire. One of the chande- liers weighs about a ton and is reckoned to be the largest in `Britain. FroM time to time, the hoore are taken up in the rooms above and the fastenings and structural supports are examin- ed, for it would be disastrous if One of the immense chandeliers were to fall. Then there is the special task of overhauling all the clocks at Buckingham Palace. There le a grand total of 160, and every tiny repair is noted in a special inventory., One of the Palate clocks was made 400 years ago for Queen Elizabeth 1 and, thanks to regular care, it is ex- pected to keep good time for another 400 years at leest. Among the fourteen pianos still regularly tuned and sort- jaed is a . 100-year-old Vetetaii specially built f or Queen Vie- toria. Incidentallye the piano-. tuner Was till recently de eighty-yeat-Olci who had, tuned through four reigns. Yet he was so adept at ducking behind a door, or malting hiniself scarce 'whenever members of the Roy- al Family entered the room, that he 'claimed he had never once met them. ''o-day teeny n,4* young they wear Western dresses, not kimonos. They ddnce well and some of them are amusing in their conversation, They all speak English. The floor Shows are of the kind you see in London, Paris and New Yeek. So are the songs the girls sing, some in English with an American accent—the rest have Japaneee words to our own popular tones. Public bath houses abound in Japan, That is because most dwelling houses have no bath- room. In such places there is generally mixed bathing. Men and women strip and get into the same enormous indoor pool of warm water. But it is all very proper. It is just that their conventions do not make them conscious of nudity. There are also an enormous number of Turkish or steam bathe:. In some you can get a prierale room with a girl to bath you: Sher then' ,drieseeyou with a towel, arid :;gives yotilc a mas- sage; but 'in'eerest c x s e s the rooms are shared by -three or four men, each of whom is at- tended' to, by different girl, These , Plesceie are run on very Strict Iinese,EVen in the private' rooms no familiarity would be tolerated, for an attendant keeps popping in to see that all welL It is important that we should realize this, for the oddest ideas seem to prevail in England and America about the looseness cf morals among, the girls of Japan. This impression is fed by tra- vellers' tales, some of which may be true, but I did not find any confirmation. The girls of. Japan are viva- cious -arid many of them are ex- tremely pretty. In complexion they are as white as Europeans, especially in the towns; 'where they are very conscious of make-up and take great pains to look 'their best. They have their hair done in the Western 'kyle, varnish their fingernails, wear smart shoes, even with kimonos, and make up their eyelashes and eyebrows. The girls in China don't; there they use neither make-up nor adornments of any kind: There are two further notice- able differences between these two peoples who are regarded by us as being so closely akin. The Japanese girls, also tiny, have not the straight, slender figure of the Chinese and are inclined to plumpness. It is also possible to tell their age; it shows in their faces, whereas Chinese women remain unwrinkled until they are fifty. One of the most interesting Japanese women I met is an extremely popular novelist nam- ed ItOlto Koyaina. Her books sell by the million and many of them have been filmed. She told me, while we sat together at the Toho studios watching a film being shot, that in her new book she discusses the difference between a Ja- panese girl in love and a Wes- tern girl. They don't regard love .in the Same way, she said. With the Japanese girl it is de- votion, a desire to sacrifce her- self if necesary in order to de-i Monsttate her love. "That," I said, "is the tradi, tional Japanese way. But sure- ly the modern girl views it dif- ferently. For example, she would not so readily accept the infi- delity of a husband, would she?" "No," she replied. "Most of the women who write to me com- plain of just that. It isn't equal- ity they seek. 'They don't talk of getting even by stepping out arid doing the sense thing. They Would rather go back to the old, but — and this is the important difference — they want the man they 10Ve to be as faithful'as they dee," "And do you think ehey Will achieve this?" "No," she replied 'with a laugh. 'Men afraid, are the seine the whole world over, It is 'only the girls who differ."" I'M hot sure she's right at any rate not i?cilieri I read about filth. Stets, Obey the traffic Signs — they are .blaced there for ir 0 UR: SAFETY., The Truth About Geisha Girls 'PARDON MY ELBOW' Pittsburgh Pirate catcher sill Hall (left) and first baseman Dick Stuart collide in the third inning of game with Cubs in Chicago as they, go after a popup hit by Lee Walls. Stuart was shaken up on the play but remained in the game. le$ An Upside Down Existence „Row would you late to 81)011 all your walking life hanging upside down from a tree? That's what the sloth, A primitive South American animal, has to do, But, then, the sloth is a very toPeyeturvy animal anyway — even its hair is back to front! Res eause they live upside down, its hair runs the opposite way to. other animals,' so the rain can run off it. Here's another oddity about the sloth: most tree animals have well-developed tails that help to improve their balance as they run along the branches and al- low the animal to suspend itself, leaving its hands and feet free to gather leaves and froits for food. But the sloth? Its tail is a ridiculous and quite useless stump! Its limbs, however, more than make up for this. They are slen- der but very strong, with long claws, curved like hooks. Moving about in trees, the sloth is very mere-footed, but on the ground, It can move only with the great- est difficulty, placing one foot forward at a time and dragging the aody slowly and laboriously after it. This doesn't really mat- ter, however, because sloths nor- mally never come clown from the trees. They feed entirely on fruits, buds and leaves, which they gather with their hands, often hanging suspended only by their hind limbs as they pass the food to their mouths, Their proverbial slowness makes it remarkable that they should have survivied for so long, because they would be far too sluggish to deal effectively with attacks by other animals. They have, however, the pro- tective advantage of exception- ally efficient camouflage. The sloth's hairs are grooved, end in these grooves microscopic ...green algae ( a form of plant 'die) establish themselves and give a greenish tinge to the fur. With this colouring, they are most ,difficult to detect, so much to that they were for long con- ddered to be rare animals. Only recently has their real abundance been realized. Against man, always a formid- ible enemy of-wild life, their • The geisha gir Is are enter- tainers. They are trained to sing and dance and tell anecdotes for the amusement of guests. An easy friendship prevails, but no more than that. There is nothing outside, Japan to which I can liken it. ;A.`' club of sorts? Yes, but yeti jbst pay a subscription and become a member, As a rule, some- rich man ,starts a tea house of this kind for the diversion of himself and such friends as he may care to take along -- in the way that in the old days rich men in England had private orchestras to play from a gallery and en- tertain their guests during din-, ner. The geishas are not brought into the home but are outside it in a house specially set up for the purpose. And the geishas not only provide the entertainment, but they provide the 'meal, = too, and serve it as well. The guest' sits on the floor, according to Japanese custom, and by each kneels a girl. She fills his glass with saki or any other drink he may fancy, puts choice 'morsels, on his plate and might even pop it into his mouth. The girl doesn't dine , at the same time. She chatters all the while. After the meal come a series of games in which all join, guests and girls, They play romping games. There is singing in which the men join, too. Then the girls perform ,a dance and sometimes the men join in that as well but it isn't like our dancing. They don't hold each other, but go through a series of solo pos- tures to music provided by three or four of the' other girls. These geisha girls dress in a traditional manner which I didn't find at all attractive. Their faces are painted a dead white and are quite expressionless: Their hair is taken ,up in three sweeps, one from each side and the third from the front and piled up on the top of the head-- three immense buns held in place by a comb. They wear kimonos, of course, with large bows on the back. How did I see them if these places are so exclusive? Well, anyone can if he is taken by the right man — you are then one of the guests, But Only men are allowed in, writes R. J. Minney in "Tit Bits." You won't 'find any geislias in the nightclubs, of which there are many . hundreds in Tokyo. These are run entirely on Wes- tern lines. One of them, the Queen Bee, has 600 dance hos- tesses. You can engage one for the equivalent of two dollars an hour, but have to buy her drinks and possibly a meal as well if she's hungry. The girls are young and pret- ty — all of them Japanese but •••, Pod; CiAti4; DEATH At'tEA,4w6 tankers .91,6064 0;0' -wdy through dense fog headino fde „. Narragansett Bay near NewaOrto RA: They s mashed todether, With explosive farce: Heitire later the fog lifted revealing black smoke' pouring'out of the die:Mane tep,i a 1,475-ton coastal tanker that had been loaded with bee g ollons of gagaittie. Navy and Coast Guard firefighting. craft had temporarily` abandoned the attempt to extinguish the inferno. Her Cress's of 13 bete:Sped but nOt so lotliy ‘Wstii ihe SS Otilfbil, the billet, 'ship invOlVecie"where crewmen died.