Necks

When a Japanese stares ardently at a pretty woman, his eyes dwell neither on her legs nor on her figure but on the suggestive curve of her neck. On "ladies day" last week the visitors' gallery of the House of Peers was filled with some of the Empire's fairest women, including 45 students of the Tokyo brides' school. Neither Peers nor newshawks could restrain smoldering glances at the visitors' necks, chalk-white with rice powder. The genteel interplay of glances was abruptly interrupted by Imperialist Baron Ryoitsu Asada.

"Japan must have more babies!" the baron cried. "It is a deplorable fact that young women of today are practicing birth control in the interests of beauty. They claim children spoil their beauty. This philosophy is a tragic mistake. Japan must have more babies!"

There were a few titters in the gallery. Some women frowned, others modestly bowed their heads, exhibiting still further their fetching necks. The baron plunged right into the subject of birth control until the Speaker of the House hastily cut him short, declared "This discussion has gone too deeply into details."

The baron's outburst was not embarrassing only to the women in the gallery. It made a mockery of Japan's efforts to convince the world that she must expand because she needs more land for her teeming population (468 per square mile in Japan proper).

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