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The Daily Missoulian
Missoula, Missoula County, Montana
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In Tokyo, geisha girls were barred by Japanese government order from entertainments honoring Field Marshal Lord Kitchener due to his reputed dislike of women; they were replaced by men in ancient armor and male waiters, per passengers on the steamship Bellerophon arriving in Victoria, B.C., on Nov. 27.
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Victoria, B. C., Nov. 27.
Geisha girls were by order of the Japanese government barred from service at entertainments given recently at Tokio in honor of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, out of deference to that gentleman's reputed dislike of the female sex. This was the information brought here today by persons on board the steamship Bellerophon, just in from Oriental ports.
At the entertainment given at Tokio municipality the customary geisha girls were replaced by men in ancient armor, carrying weapons used in medieval days, while the waitresses at the Maple club were replaced by men, said passengers on the Bellerophon.
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geisha girls replaced by men in ancient armor at tokio municipality entertainment and by men at maple club, out of deference to lord kitchener's reputed dislike of the female sex.
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Geisha girls were barred from service at entertainments given recently at Tokio in honor of Field Marshal Lord Kitchener by order of the Japanese government. At the Tokio municipality entertainment, they were replaced by men in ancient armor carrying medieval weapons; at the Maple club, waitresses were replaced by men.