Arizona republican., 1891-04-21

painted cheeks was pleasing. The so- cial evil in Japan is under direction Of the Government, and IS reduced to a most perfect system. r...
 An investigation of this system proved novel and interesting. In every city, town, village and district compound IS laid out according to the needs of the population and enclosed by a high wall twenty or thirty feet high. Inside Of the enclosure miniature town IS built, with theater, shop, bath-houses, tea gardens, cafes, restaurants, lading houses and "all the comforts of home." At the gate, which is strictly guarded by armed officers, female infants and fe- males of any age are received and taken care of at Government expense and have home, such as it is, from the cradle to the grave. The institution" is sattended by physician, and the Japanese police insure perfect order. It Is even con tended that the manners of the inmates serve as model to visitors.
 hospital is attached to each institu- ton, where the yellow flag notifies the visitor of danger" Any one becoming fascinated with an inmate can take her out of the institution by paying her debit to the Government, but neither the inmates nor any of their class are allowed in the public streets of Japan. You may moralize as much as you please, but an evil that cannot be sup pressed is modified by police and sani- tary regulations.
 The rising generation serve the res taurant tables, bath-houses, dressing rooms and tea gardens, whilst the vet erans of the turf are consigned to the culinary, layatory and hospital service. The gate is open day and night for the admission of visitors or inmates; but a strict register is kept of all ingress and egress. The gate money is very small only an ttzebu, about 40 cents; but visit ors are allowed to spend as much as they please in the enclosure for entertain ment, eating, drinking, theater, books, pictures, paintings and presents. The bathrooms are open for the inspection of visitors during the Japanese ablution. The Japanese never having heard of the | lall oi Eve are unconscious of evil in the natural relation of the sexes; but eXpe- rienced residents and observers testify to the rectitude of Japanese women after they assume the duties of mated life. LANDING AT TAMO.
 Our daimio fellow passenger, with the beautiful ladies, in vlted us to land at Tamo and partake of the Inequalities of bis native province, and as this was a Japanese town in its primitive simplic- lty we gladly avaied ourselves oi the opportunity and went ashore. We were soon surrounded by rabble of the com mon people, eager to see foreigners for the first time but the officers appointed | to take charge of us easily kept them away, so that we could have a pathway | through the middle of the street. In the rear of the village we entered wide avenue leading to the temple, and pass ing under the shade of grand old trees, up several granite stairways on the hill side, under archways ot stone and | through file of heather statuary in stone and bronze, we at last stood in the presence of the august Buddha. The location of their temples IS worthy of ] all admiration, and the lavish eXpendi- | ture of labor and money upon their erection evidences both devotion and wealth. After viewing the mysteries of | the temple we were conducted to the house Oi entertainment connected with the establishment, as seems to be the custom in Japan. This was immedi- ately over the bay, and from the stone balustrade overlooking the sea we could | have a good view of our ship in the har- DOT. We left our shoes al the door and walked upon the nice, clean mating in hose.
 JAPANESE ENTERTAINMENT.
 The entertainment was commenced by kind of fish soup and followed up by about dozen courses of fish, with a cut of cake between each course. mah aged all the fnny tribe pretty well unti 1t came to dish of raw fish cut ir strings, something like sliced eels, which proved unpalatabie. It was little diff cult to use chopsticks with grace and tht position at a Japanese dinner is not en tirely comfortable, as you have 10 squat on your knees, keeping your extremities carefully out of sight, but having en dured this agonizing position until botf legs were asleep, politeness finally sue cumbed to suffering nature, and stretched out my legs at the imminent danger of kicking over my neighbOr't dish of chow-chow.
 In the interval between dinner anC tea we were entertained by a troop O singing girls, who accompanied an in strument like dulcimer with som, songs, which were no doubt very musi cal in Japanese ears. Afterwards tho dancing beauties treated us to some feats of legs which were well adapted to tn, summer season and light costume Then we had tea and few dishes O Sweetmeats and more cake and little more boisterous music, and then, as il was past midnight, we rowed off to oul ship and went to bed and dreamed that we had undertaken to revenge Jonal and swallowed a whale, and wer, stranded on the coast of Japan, and tha thousands of Japanese urchins and sing ing girls and dancing girls were laugh. Ling at our sOnOrous slumbers, and al eeery snOre cried out "There she blows P
 The next day by sunrise we wer, again floating through the fairy.like is lands which gem the inland sea, and al day long we whirled and turned anon, the green islands, sometimes within stOne's throw of the bold shore ant sometimes only the blue outline of a dis tant mountain was visible. The sam, happy-looking villages, the same highl, cultivated terraces on the hillsldes, tn, same temples in the groves. All da, long we iioated in this enchanted sea and the sun went down and left purpl, clouds to illumine the beautiful scenery When the harvest moon, envious, seem ingly of the silvery sea, rose over noun tain peak and shining rivulet, and ter raced hillside and peaceful village anc tisherman's hut and the temples amids the groves, and disturbing the stiffness of nature, the fire ship sped on over tho silNprV sea nnlll near mnrninn M han th,