Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-09-16
\ ur>ury GOES SHOPPING.
costume.

After sitting all hour in 4 tram car. riding
along rice fields where women are hoeing
rice with their hands as they walk knee deep
in the water, we struck the kago carriers
who carry us up the mountain TO Miyano-
shita.
Now came test of manhood. Our party
of three had very stup.dly brought POO.
pound Saratoga trunk instead of repackins
our things into Japanese baskets. Our Ka
go carriers looked Mt the great trunk and
then looked ut the Fujiya Hotel four mites
away on the top of the mountain. Then
they laughinyIy tied rope around the
trunk, put pole through it and started on
Il fox trot with the huge weight.
Here stop SAID. Leave it. 1t will
kill you"
Can dor they laughed and on they went
and when the first jinrikisha reached the
hotel, there stood my two coolies with the
trunk. could not lift one end of this Sar.
atosa. The strongest hotel porter would
have asked 30 cents TO carry it up one pair
of stairs in America, and these athletes had
carried it on run four miles up mount
ain and when paid them 20 cents apiece.
the regular price. they thanked us again
and bowed three times to the ground.
For shame" said my tender hearted
wife with tears in her eyes. "Give them
more, double it, such brave grand mem"
All right" said, putting the men on
their snewy backs, take more" and they
laughed and cried with joy as they took it.
The watering place hotels here are like
great nird cages; and pretty Japanese waiter
girls dresSe i'll kimono5 and brilliant obi.
tsashes) flick through halls and dining
rooms like birds. always laughing like the
three little maids from school and Away,
innocenuy modest they are too. Sometime:
| zee the young gentlemen admiring the
pretty hands and nvcks of the girls as they
pat their red cheeks. When asked Kokc
and Meto what wages they received they
said in broken Engli' Ii:
I'VE get 81 month and our pretty
Clothes
But the presents you Get?"
I'VE give them to master aud at the end
OF the year he makes us present
The prize at the Fnjya like all Japanese
hotels IS 81 day. The hotels are away up
in the mountains above the clouds and look
out on Fujiyama. This is favorite resort
of Sir Edwin Arnold. The poet finished to-
day japanese drama, the story of Adj
yuma, for London manager to be on the
stage in japanese costumes.
30, yes" he said as he read q romantic
portion of the play, II have put in lot of
coloring and plenty of singing and girls.
In fact am an old hand at the drama and
shall put in whit Tcnnyson left out. am
offered 5000 for the play"
The guests of this Japanese Saratoga are
cosmopoite. There are golden-haired Yam
kee girls from Boston and Chicago, the
solemn English girl and phlegmatic German
who drinks beer at Wesbaden. The Ameri-
can girl abroad is always to the front She
dances prettier, fiirts harder and climbs
higher than any of the rest. She gets an
autograph from Sir Edwin while the Eng
,lsh girl is asleep, and has the English girls
lover at her feet while she plays the sami-
sen. the japanese banjo
In the evening it was amusing to see the
japanese guests try to dance the round
dances. The Japanese are bound to become
European: The Emperor and Empress
dress i'll European costumes, walk on Eng
fish carpets and eat French dishes The
swell young Japanese has his Tuxedo and
the girls are struggling into kid gloves and