which drunkenness has interfered with their efficiency in any
branch of employment.” ?

Their characteristics may further be learned from the following
statements: “The Christian religion has taken firm root there
(in Japan). The Japanese have not been steeled against change.
Their rapidly changing civilization and recent phenomenal prog-
ress bear witness to this.”’? “They have taken much from other
nations.” ? “Literate, intelligent, studious, imitative, desiring to
be recognized as equals and feeling offended when treated as a
dissimilar and inferior race, they have quickly conformed to many
of the requirements and customs of the adopted country.” * “In
their persons and dress they are especially careful in this matter.
One seldom finds a ‘camp’ or a ‘shack’ too rude in its equipment
to be without bathing facilities. The day’s work is usually fol-
lowed by a hot bath.” * “The Japanese dress well and wear
American clothes.” > “They have a high standard of personal
cleanliness.” ® Then too, “the Japanese are very ‘personal’ in
their relations, and are frequently generous to a fault in showing
their appreciation to others.” * In their homes, “chop sticks con-
tinue in very general use, but in every one of the houses investi-
gated the past summer, knives, forks and spoons were found, and
rather frequently they were more or less regularly used by the
members of the Japanese household.” * “Twenty years have wit-
nessed a considerable change in the diet of the Japanese in the
United States.” ° Taking the families of Japanese and Italian farm-
ers, the diet of the one is no more characteristic of the race than
that of the other. Neither is their diet without desirable variety,
nor less expensive than that of other immigrant races in similar
economic positions.”?° The one point in which the Japanese standard

2 Ibid., p. 166.
1 Millis, Ibid., p. 254.
2 Ibid.

3 Ibid

4 Ibid., p. 233.
5 Ibid., p, 254.
6 Ibid., p. 232.
7 Ibid., p. 233.
8 Ibid., p. 255.
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