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((r Stf Www MOim trnrrr LfTfttf Western Writer Discovers Japanese Geisha Girl Profession Honorable One bV-'robert musel Unitad Press Correspondent Kyoto, Japan U.R) Many a Westerner has had his honorable face slapped, literally or figura tively, because of his inability to understand the strange Japanese conception of the geisha girl. She is not what these foreign ers, Americans included, think she is. If it is any comfort to the West a lot of Jananese make the same mistake. To find out about the geisha girl from a real authority, I : earn to this ancient capital of Nippon by devious routes to talk "to Wataru Sugita, who is ai of ficer of the Yasuka geisha school one of the few remaining in Japan. I say by devious routes be cause I got Into the wrong build ing In Tokyo first and before I ROGUE RIVER Hobby Club Holds Meeting BY MRS. MYRTLE WHIPPLE Rogue River The Rogue River Hobby club met Tuesday, Feb. 26. at the home of Mrs. Harold Hargitt with 10 members presOit and one guest, Richard Hargitt. Luncheon was served i 12:30 and then the exchange of Hobby gifts. The rest the afternoon was spent in fancy work nd visiting. The next meeting i i 1 1 be the 26th of Varch ft the home of Mrs. Walter Klsworm. D 4u t ; d t n , i p k", M" led the pulp.t of the Presbyter-1 An church Sunday morning Mr. Brown , w the Synod Executive 'ana a here to n e i p in tne ciiucn www ouuaing prujt'ci. Th Koah's breakfast, which tfhaiS Svtry first Sunday of the O month, vs held Sunday morn O (31 -fellowship hall. dip foliceman Pete Peter idn k building a new house on Brrway. It is of cement blocks. Th new hefese of Hurst Morgan on Cedar st. is progressing. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Stephens are (building a new home at their lota on Pine st. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Furge-aon.'-fcarents of Mrs. Earl Green, O who have been visiting their daughters and family since Dec ember, are enroute home to Charlevoix, Mich., via San Fran- . Cisco, Denver and Chicago. They expect to arrive home about March 15. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Smith have been guests of Ivans brother, Lloyd and Mrs. Smith, for the past few days on their way home to Portland from a visit with theij daughter in California. M. and Mrs. Albert West and Mrs. Frank West recently visited In Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. James Whipple were dinner guests Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John BreMing. OMr. and Mrs. Jim Rhoten of ! Wimer were dinner guests March ! 1 at the home of Mrs. Rhoten's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Miller. The dinner was in honor of Mrs. Rhotens' birthday. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Klinker of San rancisco have been guests of ilrs. Klinker's sister, Mrs. Belle Shapell, on Cedar st. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Dunlap and sons called at the Lloyd Smith home Sunday Feb. 24. The Dun laps were enroute to Calif-. ornia from their home at Foster, ! Ore. A birthday dinner was given Sunday. Feb. 24. in honor of Ralph Smith at the home of Mr. and ?frs. Lloyd Smith with Mrs. Smith and Mrs. Lois Morgan as hostesses. Those who attended were Mr. and Mrs. Bill Baker dnd son. Ralph, and daughter, Billie. of Fortuna. Calif; Mrs. Dorthy Brown and son, Steve, and daughters. Sheril and Zan dra. of Grants Pass: Ralph Smith the honor guest, and Mrs. Smith, and sons, Mike and Pat. and daughter. Debbie: Mrs. Morgan The Mississippi delta area cov and son. Hurst, and Mr. and Mrs. ers about 12.3U0 square miles. J could protest, three pretty girls in bras and shorts undressed, steamed, soaped, bathed and massaged me. I do not recall such a thing ever happening to me in New York or even London In any event Sugita as happy I had come to see him after I left my shoes at the door and padded across the cold mats to his office. He said it was time the exact function of the geisha was explained. He and other school officials were wor ried about the situation and so was the Gion geisha union. "Union!" "Certainly," he said. "The gei sha have a strong union. It takes nearly 10 years to become a true geisha and they protect them selves on working conditions and rates of pay and so on. An ex- Lloyd Smith. Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Brown are sisters of Ralph. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hagemynn of the Rand M Hardware store, recently went on a week's vaca tion in the Los Angeles area. Mr. and M r s. Walter Kas worm, who have spent most the winter at their mine at Whiskey creek, are home for the sum mer. The Rogue River PTA will hold a rummage and white ele- Pnant sale ftlarcn 8 at the V1W hall. Contributions for the sale n needed accordi t Mrs Bud Dlck Pubiicity8chairman and May be ,eft Rogue Rlver F d H Seed stnr Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Miller attended the funeral Monday, Feb 25, of Miller's uncle, A. L. Bailey, of Medford. Mrs. Effie Birdseye and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cameron went to Cottage Grove Friday to attend the funeral of their brother, John Cameron. Specialist Roscoe Hargitt and his family have arrived back in the states after being stationed in Germany for 16 months. John A. Dixon, who is work ing in Washington, spent the week end of Feb. 23 at home with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Dick and family spent the week end of Feb. 23 visiting Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Kerman and family at Roseburg. ' Mr. and Mrs. Lenard Nuttall of 29 Palms, Calif., visited last week with Mrs. NuttaU's sister, Mrs. Lanabelle Deck, Mrs. Gladys Stephens, and Lusband, and Mrs. Nuttalls aged mother. Possible Water Shortage Seen in Illinois Valley Cave Junction A recent snow check conducted by the forest service indicates a dos- sible water shortage here this summer, unless late storms bring more snow to surrounding mountains. Only traces of snow were found in sheltered areas on the defined snow courses, which in the past two years have had from four to six feet of cover ing early in March. Continued warm rains have washed all the snow away this week. Council Committer n:r-,,ter n j b;M. D'SCU"eS. Pend'r3 B'S The Medford city council will make recommendations at fu ture council meetings to Jackson county's three legislators con cerning bills pending in the state legislature which may affect. Medford, Mayor John Snider announced Wednesday. The council legislative com mittee, composed of Mayor Snider and Councilmen Donald Hansen and Stanley Jones, met yesterday morning with City Manager Robert Duff to discuss pending bills. pert geisha can command 60,000 fen (S169) an evening'' he did not say "night." Versed in Arts Sugita said geisha meant a woman versed in the arts. To qualify a girl must start dancing about the age of six, pass her formal school education and at 16 apply for entrance to the school. If she has the looks and talent she spends the next few years from 8 a.m. to midnight study ing Jananese poetry and phil osophy, history and conversa tion, flower arranging, how to serve tea (an almost mystical ceremony, this) and how to sing and play the samisen or three stringed guitar. On graduation day she takes a geisha name, something poetic like "Miss First Snow," or "Miss Purple Bloosom" or "Miss Spring Rain," and she is in busi ness. She may go to work for a mother (retired) geisha who has a tea house or she may open her own salon. Is the wealthy Japanese busi nessman tired from the cares of the day and weary of struggling for export markets"? The geisha will soothe his ruffled nerves with soft music or poetry or con versation on cultural topics and nothing more. Is there an important business conference? A geisha will serve as hostess, adroitly stepping in if the men become irritable. Talented Substitute The geisha achieved her func tion because the Japanese wom an used to live in the seclusion of her home. Parties were at tended only by men and were held not in the home but in tea houses and restaurants. The ge isha was the hostess and enter tainer at this gathering, versed in all the worldly affairs, in cluding politics, in which wives presumably took no interest. "The Gion quarter of Kyoto still supplies geishas for govern ment circles." said Sugita. He admitted sadly that in this world of rock and roll geisha is slowly losing her historic place. Young Japanese prefer Louis Armstrong to the dance of the seven lotus leaves. Besides, the government insists on regarding geisha entertainment as a lux ury and won't let businessmen claim tax deductions for it. v Oiten Marry- Well Sugita said a lot of geishas wind up as friends of rich and I influential Japanese and they also often marry extremely well. After leaving Sugita I went looking for a true geisha but they were all busy. However, I found an appren tice "maik" or dancing girl named Toyotsuru in the Ponto Cho quarter. She danced and sang for me with much tilting of her pretty, white-painted face and movements of the arms. "What," I asked the interpre ter, "does this quaint dance mean, especially the gestures of the arms something, no doubt, of the olden, golden days?" "Not at all," he said. "She is throwing a ball and calling j balls and strikes. Name of this dance baseball." Have You Heard About ... SNIDER'S P. C. PLAN! HORNBROOK Family Attends Wedding By MRS. H. H. CHAPMAN Hornbrook Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt Jr. and sons Tom mie and Ronnie drove to Port land Friday morning where they attended the wedding of Watt's brother, Charles J. Watt and Miss Mary Joan Lightner, both of Portland. The ceremony took place at St. Ignatius Catholic church with the reception following at the King's room of the Imperial ho tel. About 250 guests attended. Mrs. Lester Nye accompanied the Watts to Portland, where she was a guest at the reception, and also visited friends in the city. They returned home Sun day evening. Mr. and Mrs. Warren Seifert and children, Mike and Peggy, spent the weekend in Redding, Calif., their former home. They visited Seifert's mother, Mrs. Stella Seifert, and numerous friends. They report that during last week's storm, a severe gust of wind had blown the roof com pletely off the garage at their home in Redding. Mr. and Mrs. Tom McHenry and three sons of Yreka were callers on Saturday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Henley Claw son. They were accompanied by THESE m mmcm Pork Sausage LBS OLD FASHIONED SMKy CHEESE WHOLE MILK CHEDDAR Boneless PORK RIB STEAK Pound Corner 4th & Front the Clawson's grandson, Ray Seaman, and he and Tommie Jr. stayed overnight as part of Tom mie's birthday celebration. Ray's mother, Mrs. 'Rusty" Seaman, drove out Sunday morning and returned the boys to their homes in Yreka. Mrs. Duane Hamner returned this weekend after a visit of sev eral weeks with her mother, Mrs. Hattie Holland, in Bakersfield, Calif. She also visited" in Los An geles with her daughter, Mrs. G. G. Hebb and family, and her sis ter, Mrs. H, Heslby. Mrs. Wayne Cummins has re ceived word from her son, A2c Raymond Moffett. that he re cently participated in a USAFE basketball tournament in Bit berg, Germany. Just previous to that, he had also taken part in a similar tournament in Morocco. His permanent base is in north ern Italy, near the Austrian border. Once again, the swift flowing water of the Klamath river in combination with the treacher ous junction of the old and new highways 99, have added to their appalling toll of victims. Dragging operations continued all through Sunday night and PRICES EFFECTIVE THURS. EVE., PURE $00 FRANKS 3 lbs. SHOO 0)c LB. A 49' , ROAST FREE PARKING FOR Thursday. March 7. 1957 Monday morning for the body of Charles Vernon Rowland, 25, of Project City, Calif., who was be lieved to have been thrown out of the car in which he was a pas senger, when it skidded out of control and spun backwards into the river a short distance below Camp Lowe. , The accident occurred about 9:50 Sunday evening, in the same spot in which numerous other accidents have taken place since the building of the new highway. The car was driven by Rowland's brother, Eugene, who with his wife. Rose Marie, is hospitalized in Yreka as a result of the 'acci dent. Other passengers were Mrs. Nerva Rowland, mother of Kenneth Stevens, 17, a friend, all of Project City. Four hunting dogs also were in the car, two of which were reported to have been killed. The Sheriff's office, which was conducting the drag ging operations, had to call off further operations without re covering Rowland's body when the river rose rapidly from Mon day's downpour of rain. LOTS OF VEAL Berlin (U.R) The East Berlin newspaper "Lausitzer Rundschau" reported today that a cow has given birth to three healthy calves. It said the birth of triplets was "unique." AT SPUDS U. S. No. 1 10 lbs LETTUCE Per Head mis W v! '.,.!A.:-yf Wasco County Flood Project Unwarranted Portland U.R) The Army Engineers division in Portland declared today that the federal government would not be war ranted in building a flood con trol project at Dry Hollow in Wasco county at this time. DOUBLE STAMPS on Wednesdays i FRL, SAT. AND oe sure... 1 $ sugar l HILLS BROS. 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