[Illustration] THE AMERICAN DIARY OF A JAPANESE GIRL ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Drawn by Genjiro Yeto THE GUEST OF HONOR ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The American Diary of a Japanese Girl BY MISS MORNING GLORY Illustrated in colour and in black-and-white BY Genjiro Yeto ❦ NEW YORK _Frederick A. Stokes Company_ PUBLISHERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright, 1901, by Frank Leslie Publishing House. Copyright, 1902, by Frederick A. Stokes Company. ———— All rights reserved. PUBLISHED IN SEPTEMBER, 1902. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To Her Majesty HARUKO Empress of Japan _January, 1902_ _Ever since my childhood, thy sovereign beauty has been all to me in benevolence and inspiration._ _How often I watched thy august presence in happy amazement when thou didst pass along our Tokio streets! What a sad sensation I had all through me when thou wert just out of sight! If thou only knewest, I prayed, that I was one of thy daughters! I set it in my mind, a long time ago, that anything I did should be offered to our mother. =How I wish I could say my own mother!= Mother art thou, heavenly lady!_ _I am now going to publish my simple diary of my American journey._ _And I humbly dedicate it unto thee, our beloved Empress, craving that thou wilt condescend to acknowledge that one of thy daughters had some charming hours even in a foreign land._ _Morning Glory_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _List of Illustrations._ “The guest of honour.” _Frontispiece._ “A new delight to catch the peeping tips 18 of my shoes.” “Good night—Native land!” 20 “In Amerikey.” 32 “Such disobedient tools!” 50 “O ho, Japanese kimono!” 58 “So you like the Oriental woman?” 128