Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1896-10-24

rhe Saps Net Afraid ef the hsf~s'
Rays az the sun.
Said the man from japan as he read
OF eighteen men and women overcome
by the heat IN a single day: Il never
heard OF a sunstroke over 'herc among
the natives. I don't believe there IL .
word for II in the Japanese language.
I'm going back. don't want to drop
on the street and have an ambulance
Jolt out the little life LEFT In getting me
TO the hospital just In time for death
certificate.
II can't say why folk don't have
sunstroke I'm Japan Foreigners ina.
have been long In the country declare
that II Is the electricity In the atmos-
phere. Perhaps II is. never heard
the action OF electricity explained
zone doesn't hear OF sunstroke ex-
cept from globe trotters and igriffins.
.Griffins' are newcomers. They nave
elaborate outfits of camphor bags
cholera belts. pith helmets lined with
sponge and double-felted hats WIN
patent yentilators. They also carry
umbrellas, and II they walk four steps
NJ any time between sunrise and sun
set they drink brandy pegs TO reduce
their temperature. A peg, said
globe trotter once, is a panacea Tor
every ILL.,
"Surely. II a sunstroke were possible
In Japan there would have been no
japanese TO conquer China, for from
/ E.s.KT tho In 4
every possible chance to kill them.
They are taken out before their eyes
are open or a single hair can be de-
tected on their bobblng heads, and,
with no covering. they are trotted
about on the backs OF their wee nurses.
These nurses themselves are only
large enough TO walk. and. Ike their
infant charges, they are bareheaded.
THE principal occupation OF these
balya, as they are called. Is playing
hop-scotch. This they do all summer
long, the infants ON their backs being
of secondary consideration. The babes
head rolls round on Its own and its
bearers shoulders, while the rays
from the sun pour down with no more
effect. apparently, than 10 develop q
healthy looking brown complexion.
The wearing Of hats Is a new fash
ion to the Japanese. and Is quite un'
necessary. The word for hat Is 'shap
po,' from the French 'chapeau.' Hats
are common enough In the cities
where there Is an idea that. like swal
low-tail coats, they are mark OF civ
Ilization: but throughout the rural dis
tricts they are seldom seen, and In the
towns the children have no use fol
them. Youngsters heads are SHAVED
In various fanciful ways, and hat,
would hide the tufts Of soft black hair
which are as much mothers prid,
as are the golden curls on the heads Of
the precious little Fauntleroys o.
America.
some children are always out o.
doors In Japan. except when they ea
or sleep. but danger from sunstroke !.
never thought OF. Upon the farms thu
men wear 'fundoshf only. This Is I
strip Of cloth six feet long and one foo
wide. They are brown as the soil the.
till, but are never sunstruck. Thei
wives, who work beside them. ar,
naked to the waist. Boatmen. too, x
naked well nigh the whole year round
and coolies are not burdencd witt
much clothing. Yet they thrive.
II grew skeptical OF sunstrokcs sooi
after reached japan. aud despite tn
, protests OF other new arrivals, dis
carded hat and clothes | never fel
better In my life than did then Yes
I'm going back to japan. nature an,
, the sunshine. New York Press.