The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1891-09-25
A. y. Of II. Japanese sojourn;np at
Battle Creek.
SANITARIUM, SEPT. %, 1891.

SANITARIUM, SEPT. 22, 1891.
One advantage OF living at the Sanitarium
is that representatives from the four quar-
ters OF the globe come here from time ia
Time. Our latest foreign visitor is from ia
pan III the person of Mr.. Shinichi Ando.
VINO mas been in this country several wears
ana is graduate in pharmacy of the ITni-
yersity of Michigan. He Is now with Parke
Davis d Co., of Detroit and came TO Rattle
Creek for ten days or so at the reouest of
the auxiliary Mission Band of the Students,
Volunteer Movement, to talk TO them about
his native country. Mr. Ando is himself a
Volunteer. He has already given four adj
dresses on Japan besides a stereopticon ey-
hloltion one evening, and will speak at least
once more before he goes. Last evening
his theme was Progress i'm JAPAN" tracing
changes In political, educational, social and
domestic life from the time Commodore
Perry darlngly anchored his fleet in the bay
OF 1eddo and by peaceful diplomacy sue
ceeded In opening the Italy of the East to
the commercial relations with the world.
down to the present.
MIR. Ando is proficient i'm English and is
evidel t'y broadly ecu lated in general liter
ature. He gave quite a list of familiar
American school books which are used as
standard text books in Japan and saws that
the American authors which are most pom
ular III his country are Emerson, Longfelow
and Irving. He does not favor sending
japanese boys and girls to this country or
any other foreign country for a rudimentary
educatlon which they can get just as well at
fourth or fifth Of the expense at home
cut rather that they shall come for specia
studies In some given direction i'm their
more mature years. He says further that
the mortality among students who have
studied abroad is very great, forty per cent.
or two out of every five, dying between the
ages or twenty-five and thirty-five wears.
Mr. AndOs father, Ando TarO, has been
the representative of his country TO the
hawaiian Islands with his Official residence
at Honolulu, but recently resigned on ac-
count OF his wife's health. AndO Taro was
also secretary of the japanese embassy
wnicn travelled around the world i'm 1871,
spending eight months i'm this country.
Mr.. Ando found at the Santarium several
or his Ann Arbor student friends among the
medical students and the lady physicians
Just graduated. Miss Helen Baldwin. of
indianapolis, medical student. and Mr..
VIII Il. Sweet OF Colorado Springs, who
hrst met Mr. Ando at Chautauqua, arranged
dinner party for him which included not
only the other resident friends, but Sec'y
flleDr0wn and few others of the Battle
Creek 7. nj. g. A. In manner Mr.. Ando is
an affable, polished gentleman.
Inc Sanitarium is still nearly as full as il
was during the summer, there being now
ABOUT four hundred guests. The grounds
were never more attractive and one can but
hope that the whitening breath of old Jack
Frost will spare us this beauty for some
time to come
AT the recent school election one thouS-
and Battle Creek women voted. electing bv
large maJoritles Mrs. Il. 4. Graves and Mrs.
L. ii. Briggs, members of the board of edu-
cation. The Sanitarum employees and at
tachees turned out large delegation which
marched to the polls headed by DIR. Kate
LINDSAY. Very truly yours,
HELEN l.. MANNING.