A geisha girl making a round of calls for New Year greetings, Shinbashi, Tokyo

A geisha girl crossing a streetcar track, Ginza, Tokyo

NEWS 2: The Russo-Turkish Seesaw, －A new game for which Minister Gogo pays all the costs

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 15: THE OLD ROUÉE: So I'm going to be a door-keeper in the rue du Mont-Blanc in a large house where my husband says they'll call us porters. So I'm going to leave this ramshackle place where there're only four tenants who give me five sous apiece for a New Year's present... Scum!!!..

PARISIAN MEN IN 1852. 9: NEW YEAR'S DAY. The door-keeper. － Sir, I wish you a good and happy one. The proprieter. － Very good, thank you! The door-keeper. － Good and happy for the man who wrings your neck, you miserable old skinflint!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 24: THE KNIGHT OF THE GOLDEN SPUR: This so-called former Colonel of the Papal Guard, later aide-de-camp to the Prince of Monaco, awaiting as a prize for his services a distinguished post in the Government!... he would, however, willingly accept a tabacconist's shop or a position as an inspector of [street] sweeping; besides [this] he is a gallant man like all knights of his order, for a trifle demanding satisfaction from five-year-old children, perfectly making excuses from the moment you look at him in the face

The Blue-stockings 13: － Sir, excuse me if I inconvenience you a little... but you understand that I’m now writing a new novel, and I need to consult a multitude of old authors!... －(The Gentleman, aside) Old authors!... Heavens, she should have consulted them while they were alive, for she must have been their contemporary!..

BOHEMIANS OF PARIS 19: THE CLAQUER: By Jingo; we're going to need to liven it up this evening, a new play in three acts; the comic wants me to burst out laughing, the heroine wants me to cry, the author wants me to stamp up to the old heavy mother, who wants me to applaud her... there's ... work for you

THE TEMPTATION OF THE NEW St. ANTHONY: In that particular time, a great and fat sinner named Véron felt himself touched by grace: having reflected that the Press was a priesthood, he became a hermit and retired to a wild place in the midst of the steepest mountains of Montmartre. There, he spent his days and nights in prayer, and as a means of mortification, imposed upon himself as a penitence the continual re-reading of the list of subscribers to the Constitutionnel. －For his only food, Véron took at long intervals a light fragment of Regnauld pâté. －The Devil, irritated by this edifying yet unexpected conversion employed different strategies to make St. Véron succumb to his temptations, but our noble coenobite knew how to resist those things which until recently had held so many charms for him: Satan, who had taken the form of the Constitutionnel in order come in person to tempt St. Véron, returned to the road for Paris, furious. －The anchorite of Montmartre has, since this time, been placed in the rank of the greatest saints which Parisian journalism honours, and is especially supplicated by the unfortunates who have a head cold

TODAY'S PHILANTHROPISTS 9: “Yesterday, in the rue St. Honoré, a respectable old man fell, struck by an attack of apoplexy, it would have been the end of him had not the celebrated Doctor Cabassol, who was by chance at his window at No. 107, hastened to fly to his aid: thanks to intelligent and prodigious help together with the most touching solicitude the sick man was promptly restored to life. Our celebrated Doctor Cabassol topping his generous behaviour wanted to receive as payment for his care only the thanks of a family which will eternally bless his name. Honour to Doctor Cabassol!” －Look here, it's you who's the respectable old man in question, yesterday you failed to fall when coming to see me, you could have injured yourself and then I could have saved you... I contrived it all a little more dramatically for the newspaper... it won't do you any harm and it'll do me a lot of good!

（役者カルタ） 「亀戸天神　山本勘助　嵐吉三郎　のち／＼の御出世をまちまする」「花屋しき　新造胡蝶　市村家橘　なんでもはまりますよ」「木母寺　おたね　尾上菊次郎　たしかなことがありますよ」「三めぐり稲荷　衆徒あだちん坊　中村雁八　当時半道のいちまん舟にるゐなし」「山谷玉姫の社　ちりれん坊　坂東嘉知六　おわらひくさだよ」「首尾の松　松永大膳　中村芝翫　あくまでいいよ」「寺島　和尚次郎　市村羽左衛門　うけました江戸つ子のおや玉／＼」「あづまの森　木村又蔵　成駒屋　たゞしいものだよ」「柳島　人形つかひ　市村羽左衛門　御工風はべろだんだよ」「一石橋　おはな　市村竹松　おほねをりが見え升」「堀の内　小狐礼三　市村家橘　外にるゐなしでござり升」「五百らかん　鷺坂ばん内　坂東薪左衛門　いつもおもしろさうだよ」「今戸　地廻り三吉　坂東三八　おひおひしゆびがよいよ」「巣鴨　大領久吉　沢村訥升　大ぐわんじやうじゆだよ」「金竜山　石川五右衛門　中村芝翫　ひと目千金」

（役者カルタ） 「亀戸天神　山本勘助　嵐吉三郎　のち／＼の御出世をまちまする」「花屋しき　新造胡蝶　市村家橘　なんでもはまりますよ」「木母寺　おたね　尾上菊次郎　たしかなことがありますよ」「三めぐり稲荷　衆徒あだちん坊　中村雁八　当時半道のいちまん舟にるゐなし」「山谷玉姫の社　ちりれん坊　坂東嘉知六　おわらひくさだよ」「首尾の松　松永大膳　中村芝翫　あくまでいいよ」「寺島　和尚次郎　市村羽左衛門　うけました江戸つ子のおや玉／＼」「あづまの森　木村又蔵　成駒屋　たゞしいものだよ」「柳島　人形つかひ　市村羽左衛門　御工風はべろだんだよ」「一石橋　おはな　市村竹松　おほねをりが見え升」「堀の内　小狐礼三　市村家橘　外にるゐなしでござり升」「五百らかん　鷺坂ばん内　坂東薪左衛門　いつもおもしろさうだよ」「今戸　地廻り三吉　坂東三八　おひおひしゆびがよいよ」「巣鴨　大領久吉　沢村訥升　大ぐわんじやうじゆだよ」「金竜山　石川五右衛門　中村芝翫　ひと目千金」

（役者カルタ） 「亀戸天神　山本勘助　嵐吉三郎　のち／＼の御出世をまちまする」「花屋しき　新造胡蝶　市村家橘　なんでもはまりますよ」「木母寺　おたね　尾上菊次郎　たしかなことがありますよ」「三めぐり稲荷　衆徒あだちん坊　中村雁八　当時半道のいちまん舟にるゐなし」「山谷玉姫の社　ちりれん坊　坂東嘉知六　おわらひくさだよ」「首尾の松　松永大膳　中村芝翫　あくまでいいよ」「寺島　和尚次郎　市村羽左衛門　うけました江戸つ子のおや玉／＼」「あづまの森　木村又蔵　成駒屋　たゞしいものだよ」「柳島　人形つかひ　市村羽左衛門　御工風はべろだんだよ」「一石橋　おはな　市村竹松　おほねをりが見え升」「堀の内　小狐礼三　市村家橘　外にるゐなしでござり升」「五百らかん　鷺坂ばん内　坂東薪左衛門　いつもおもしろさうだよ」「今戸　地廻り三吉　坂東三八　おひおひしゆびがよいよ」「巣鴨　大領久吉　沢村訥升　大ぐわんじやうじゆだよ」「金竜山　石川五右衛門　中村芝翫　ひと目千金」