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JAPANESE GOOD BREEDING. 
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means surrounded by any select circle, there was not heard 
during the whole time a single offensive word among the 
closely-packed spectators, a fact which gives us an idea of the 
excellent tone of society which prevails here, even among 
the lowest of the population, and which shows that the 
Japanese, although they have much to learn from the Euro¬ 
peans, ought not to imitate them in all. In Japan there is much 
that is good, old, and national to take note of, perhaps more 
than the Japanese at present have any idea of, and undoubtedly 
more than many of the European residents will allow. 
