Applegarth, Margaret T. The Honorable Japanese Fan. West Medford, Mass.: The Central Committee on the United Study of Foreign Missions, 1923. [7400]
Green cloth with applied color illustrations to front and back, 5 1/2 x 8 inches, 135 clean pp., illustrated with b/w photos of Japanese people and scenes. Very good. Hardcover.
A collection of stories about life in Japan designed to inspire prayer for missionary work.
The title derives from the confusion of the word "fan" in reference to a "baseball fan" and a Japanese girl's assumption that it meant a hand-held fan. On hearing that the word meant "enthusiast" the connection to the Greek words en and theos, meaning "God-in-you" was made, and the title now has a meaning similar to The Honorable Japanese Christian.