The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-11
IN Old JAPAN.
Osaka Described By a Native
Land Of the Chrysanthemum
And Its People.

into easy places in his new berth as rep
resentative of this Government at Osaka
and Hioga, in Japan, says the ewark
Sunday Call. A cablegram received a
week ago announced his safe arrival at
his destination.
George T. Kimura, the bright young
Japanese who has kept a store for the
sale of japanese goods on Broad street
for five or six years. comes from Osaka.
| His father is one of the leading merch-
ants of the city. OF Osaka he explained
to a Sunday Call reporter the other day
that 1t was the second largest city in the
Empire. 1t Is next to Toxic. the capital.
in Importance and is the largest manu-
featuring city in the Empire. Many of
the mobiles dwell there. and it's shipping
trade grows in Importance every year.
1t is a delightfully."- situated city, with
many fine streets and costly buildings.
The dwelling is not unlike ours here in
Jersey, except that the spring begins
earlier and the summer lasts longer, and
the cold of the winter is seldom as severe
es ours. Cholera makes its appearance
there occasionally. sbutTfthe sanitary pre-
| cautions against it's spreading are more
strict each year. 1t is seldom that a
European, as all people not Mongolians
are classed, is ever attacked by the dis
ease.
A TYPICAL NEW JAPANESE.
Mr.. Kimura claims to be a typical jap
anese of the new generation. He is well
educated and would put many a college
| graduate to shame by the extent of his
learning. He says that the chief aim of
a Japanese youths life is to learn and
| add to his knowledge of men and affairs.
eve do not want knowledge simply for
| the purpose of using it to acquire wealth.
we want it SO that we may know what
| is best in this world or the next, and how
we may know what is best" Mr.. XII
mura does not speak English quite as
fuently as this transcription of his ideas
would convey, although he writes it
lucidly and freely. His knowledge of our
language has been gathered mainly from
reading, and there are many words OF
which he knows the meaning when he
see them, IN print, but is timid about
| trying to speak them. He has a very poor
opinion of our civilization, and claims
that the people are superior to us in
that respect. From a Observation-Disclosures
point of view he would be right. His
chief fault with us is that we are too in
tent on the getting of money and neglect
our mental and moral education in the
SltllS u OilS WV d1S tOI oG l
nal as the Japanese, or, in other words,
do not follow the command, Love thy
~neighbor as myself" Like most young
men of his class, Mr.. Kimura is imbued
with a combination of the PHILOSOPHERS
Of Germany, Herbert Spencer. Jean JAG
ques Rousseau n Confucius. Add to
that, he has a s%prinkling of knowledge
Of Christianity, Darwinism and niger
sollism. This is naturally confusing, but
it is the education of the apanese youth
of the present, and the result is they
neither. believe in Buddha, Confucius or
Christ. beyond accepting them as each
representing a school Of philosophy.
PROGRESSIVE WOMEN.
Our women, he says are too far ahead,
just as Japanese women are behind the
age, but he believes the Japanese women
n naye 9h sm eS5a P Pbe IT; ri H. t aiiese IS that ha h the
women of his race are better of than our
women are, for they are still held in re,
spect as weaker vessels TO be fondled and
protected from harm. There are no OLD
maids or disappointed women in Japan.
He explained why there are none, and the
morality, bat he declares that the sys-
tenn works fer the benefit of the women.
Walking along Broad street he referred
to some young fellows standing on a
corner You would see nothing, like that
in Japan" he said. "A man who would
stand a % on t the str set as m ne are nso would o be
nome life is superior to yours, and because
the relationship between parents ana
yours. When I reach the store l VIII read
you a few examples OF filial psety from a
Japanese book, which is to US what your
Twen5y-four Paragons of Fllsal Piety.'
1t is 4 classic. The cases cited are ex-
IRENE. but they are read to US when we
are young, and we form ourselves ac-
ccrding to those models as far as we can.
No matter how old, a japanese may be
he is always a child in his bearing
referred to:
The little story of Roraishi shows to
what extent flial piety may extend under
Japanese. influences. Roraishi, though q
years old, dressed himself in a child's
clothes and used to roll about the floor
view of deluGing his old and doting par
ents that they were net as old as they
really were. You see they were over 50
the faithful sen wanted to tighten the
burden of their years and make them be-
lieve they could not be SO old to have
THE CRUEL srEPMoTHER.
Another one, of these nltal heroes had a
stermother is cruel, she is just as cruef
as an English stepmother, but the boy
never rebelled against her cruel treat
during the winter, when the lakes were
frozen over and fish were scarce, he went
out ! aad. t slfs.s of If his hhs G eaisa Ib lay he On
ltlI I l SA1h fti 4<AS Ntt& A1Ahc kA@t fA@f'N
of his body melted a hole in the ice, to
which the fish were attracted to breathe.
and he caught we and took them home
to his stepmcther, who treated him SO
cruelty.
Another one of the stories related of a
child who slept naked and uncovered at
night, that the mosquitoes might be at
tracted to his body, and leave his parents
At an early & Japanese children are
taught to value education as Superior to
all other CONSIDERATIONS, Here are a num- |
Der of popular axioins impressed on the
youthful Japanese mind:
Though you should gather up a thou
sand pieces of gold they would nos be so
precious as one day of study,
charity, it is by almsgiving that wisdom
is helped.
If you be born in a poor mans cabin,
but have wisdom. you shall be like the
lotus flower growing out of the mud.
Treasures gathered for wealth decay;
treasures which enrich the mind do not
decay.
Mr.. Kimura packed up his goods the
other day and went to Long Branch,
where he will keep a. store during the
summer season. He has been in this
country seven years and spent most of
his time in this city. where he has a
large number of friends.
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