Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-21

made In the Yoshiwsra, ard few Of them
are thus fortunate every year, though
perbrps not o larger proportion than in
ether countries. And IS for returning to
their families, 1t is hardly too much to
say tbs. they never do. What they think
of their own csllipg msy be Judged
from the fact that when 8
girl leavee her k.shi zsshihi to be married,
or to make any attempt TO live ditereutIy,
nothing would induce her to take with
her scrap Of the clothing sis has woTn
there, an article OF the furniture OF her
room, or even one OF Der knlck- knscks
! from it, although che has pad for them
all ten times over Sac would regard
their presence elsewhere as instant re-
proach and shame, 30 she leaves the N for
he keeper to cell as ten times their value
, 70 the liz xs ccmsr. "When she lesvea,"
l say, but does she often leave? fexr
that the female footprints by tie Willow
of Welcome nearly all point one way,y
"Whst ere tae chief determining causes
tina. recruit the rsnks Il the yuj T"Ekskefs
my infnJmsnts s: the Department.
Ice. "Tnere are only two" oas the
reply, "poverty and natural inclination
"Precisely the same causes tba. made!
journalists With u.s." remarked. 'tASds
ali other professions" added the .DHsey
tor. "Bus putting sentiment ga
theoretical legal safeguards ssfas What
proportion CT yuio ever return&A re-
spectacle liftl" "UntortunatsiY very
few" wss the reply; 1--WE have proverb
in Japanese which exactly answers your
question, Ichido doro- midzu nj hai.tara,
issho MI NO srayenai-'orce
GET INTO DIRTY WATER,
and you will never be washed clean sgain
&c long as you live.'" a few get
married, occasionally one comuits
suicide with her lover because he has
not the means wherswlth to pay her
debts AMI take her away, a. occasional
one returns to indepenfer ce
and responsibility, Blu. the great NJ j1ritY
either Ole or descend in the scale rs they
get older and uglier, till they end by
being servants in the houses Of which
they were formerly the ornaments.
It goes without saying thst in go
strange Q community-smorg these
"lotus In the mud''-there is vast deal
Of romsnce, necessarily much more thsl
among the similar classes Of countries
where vice comes chiefly from choice.
Hundreds CT novels tell the stories OF
denizsns Of tho Yoshiwars-of their
beauty, their misforiunes, their good
ness, their romantic passion snd deYo-
lion, and tnelr triumph and happiness or
despair and suicide. Some OF these
would os well worth telling Il space |
permitted. AS the dearest sighted
ct men said In Palestine long ago, there |
are often more virtues to be found in the
narlot class than in our own highly re-
spectacle circle, and I should imagine |
this to be even tfusr OF Japan than Of
Jerusalem.
The mos. extraordinary spectecla OF the |
Yoshiwars taxes place for a few after
moons at O'Clock three times q year, |
when the flowers in the long stress gar
den are changed. First in spring CONES
the pix glory OF the cherry blossoms:
then in summer
THE PURPLE OF THE IRIS;
then In eulumn the hundred colors OF the |!
chryssnshemum, the national howe- OF |
Jsp2p. When the new flowers ere plsnted ;
lae ladies OF pleasure pay these q STATE |
visit. From each Of the principal houses |
half dozen Of the most beautiful sfe |
chosen snd arrayed in gorgeous clothes,
their hair dressed monumentally, combs |
three feet long stuck In from side to side,
and then they are mounted upon olnck
lacquered ge.s or pa.tens foot high.
When they are ready to start score Of
accompany them; two or three
pyecede them 20 put the crowd away;
one holds the hand Of each
shogi upon either side solemnly