"So we could," Nan fell in with alacrity. "We could have a hibachi, too, and we might, on a pinch, arrange a room just as one would look in a Japanese house here."
"And serve tea and rice cakes."
"Yes, and learn exactly the way to present a tray and to make a ceremonial bow. We could wear kimonos, of course, and could try to do our hair in Japanese style. We must get very handsome obis, for they are what determines a Japanese girl's dress."
"Do you notice how little jewelry they wear? Scarce any except handsome hair ornaments."
"That is so. We must not forget to buy some more hair ornaments; they will make lovely Christmas gifts. It will entertain us on some of the rainy days to go forth and provide the proper things for a real Japanese tea. We can have Joe come over to help us, and it will be great larks."
"We can give one another Japanese names; they have such funny ones. Imagine being called Bamboo Corner, or Tiger Corner, or some such queer name."
"But some of the names are very poetical, and not unlike those we use, flower names, like Lotus and Plum; those are not very different from our Rose and Violet."
"But nobody would think of calling a daughter Years of Bliss, not in the old United States."
"An Indian might, and as I think of it the Japanese do give names which mean in their language much the same that Indian names mean."
"I hadn't thought of that, but I believe you are right," returned Mary Lee.