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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
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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
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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
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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
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a cow has given birth to three
healthy calves. It said the birth
of triplets was "unique."
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Portland U.R) The Army
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declared today that the federal
government would not be war
ranted in building a flood con
trol project at Dry Hollow in
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