Yet we are shocked by them.

We are astounded at the sights we see in their country villages, while they in their turn marvel at the exhibitions they witness in our city theatres.

At their watering-places the two sexes bathe promiscuously together in all the simplicity of nature; but for a Japanese woman to appear on the stage in any character, however proper, would be deemed indecent.

The difference between the two hemispheres may be said to consist in an artless liberty on the one hand, and artistic license on the other.

Their unwritten code of propriety on the subject seems to be, "You must see, but you may not observe." These people live more in accordance with their code of propriety than we do with ours.