November 14, 1917 Mott and his wife took tiffin at the hotel with me. He has written several books of fiction and travel. One of these I bought, The Rube & the Yankee Girl, which was on sale at the hotel for Red Cross support. It is written in the vernacular of an American farmer. It carries one through the larger cities of the Orient - Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo etc. - In the afternoon I went shopping on Theatre Street for where the Japanese stores of the Japanese themselves are located. Here in one shop I ordered 4 kimonos of cotton, from patterns which I chose, for 9 yen each. I also bought 4 pairs of tabis or bifurcated socks for use in wearing sandals of which I also bought 4 pair for children. The tabis were only 30 sen a pair, and the sandals 50 sen.