JAPANESE GIRLS TO ENTERTAIN AT A.-Y.-P. FAIR

Ten Tiny Maidens Who Helped While Away Hours for Admiral Sperry's Officers in Tokyo Coming to Seattle.

TEA GARDEN AFTERNOONS TO BE FEATURE OF SHOW

Representative of Nippon Exporters' Association Arranges for Appearance of Daughters of Far East.

Ten tiny maidens from Japan -- daughters of the most aristocratic families of ancient Nippon -- who assisted in socially receiving Admiral Sperry and the officers of the Atlantic battleship fleet when they touched the shores of Japan upon a friendly mission, will help in entertaining the visitors from all over the world to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.

These ten maidens range in age from 16 to 22 years and each and every one is said to be a characteristic type of feminine beauty of the most attractive Oriental character.

The ten tiny maidens have agreed to visit these shores, and from the land of cherry blossoms and the Rising Sun they will bear a message of good will to the people of the United States and to the visitors to the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition from every clime.

Arrangements for the appearance here of the ten Japanese girls who served tea to Admiral Sperry and his officers during their famous visit to Japan, were made by M. Hashagawa, a heavy stockholder and director of the Japanese Tea Exporters' Association, who spent several days in Seattle last week. Prominent in the Oriental exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will be a Japanese tea garden which will be a Japanese tea garden which will be conducted by the Japanese Tea Exporters' Association, and the ten young Japanese girls who formed a galaxy of beauty in a picture never to be forgotten by the officers of the battleship fleet, will do the honors in Seattle in 1909.

C.T. Takahashi, president of the Seattle Japanese Association, said yesterday that on Mr. Hashagawa's visit here arrangements had been completed for the visit to Seattle of the ten tiny Japanese girls who made such a social hit during Admiral Sperry's visit to Japan.