Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-08-05
A HATLsss peop,e
The sun shines WILDLY on tho Bare
Heads of the Japs.

hcsus ot the Jap>-
Said the man from Japan, rs he read
of Is men and women overcome by the
heat in a single day: Il never heard OF
sunstroke over there among the ma
tives. | don't believe there is a word
for IL in the Japanese language. I'm
going back. | didn't want to drop on
the street and have an ambulance Jolt
out the little life left i'm me getting me
to the hospital just in time for death
certificate.
Il can't say why folks don't have
sunstroke in Japan. Foreigners that
have been long in che country declare
that IL rs the electricity in the atmos-
phcre. Perhaps il is. | never heard
the action of the electricity explained.
One doesn't hear OF sunstrokcs ex-
cept from globe trotters and 'grifins.'
briiiinS are newcomers. They have
elaborate outfits of camphor bags.
cholera belts, pith helmets lined with
sponge aud dcuhlefcltcd hats with
patent ventilators. They also carry
umbrellas, and IL they walk four steps
at any time between sunrise and sun
set they drink brandy pegs to reduce
their temperature. \ peg said n globe
1870 INV - ~ every III.
Surely, IL n sunstrol<e were possible
in japan, there would have been no
Japanese 10 conquer China. for from
the time they are born the sun has
every possible chance to kill them
They are taken out before their eyes
are open or "A single hair can be detect.
ed on their tiny bobbing 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, like their infant
charges, they are bareheaded.
The principal occupation of these
baiya, as they are called, is playing
hopscotch. This they do all summer
long, the infants on their backs being
of secondary consideration. The babes
head rolls round on it's own and is
bearers shoulders. while the RAYS from
! the sun pour down with no more effect.
| apparently, than TO develop healthy
! looking brown complexion.
The wearing of hats is "A new fashion
10 the japanese, and is quite unneces-
sary. The word for hat is .shnppo.'
from the French 'chapeau.' Hats are
common enough in the cities, where
there is an idea that, like swallowtail
| coats, they are n mark of civilization;
| but throughout the rural districts .hey
are seldom seen, and in the towns the
children have no use for them. Young
| sters' heads are shaved in various fam
ciful ways, and hats would hide the
tufts of soft black hair, which are II.
much mothers pride as are golden
curls on the heads of the precious little
Fauntleroys of America.
Small children are always out OF
doors in Japan, except when they eat
or sleep, but danger from sunshine is
never thought Of. Upon the farms the
men wear 'fundoshi' only. This is n
strip of cloth six feet long and one foot
wide. They are brown as the soil they
till, but are never sunstruck Their
wives, who work beside them are
naked To the waist. Boatmen. too, 90
naked well-nigh the whole year round.
and coolies are not burdencd with much
clothing. Yet they thrive.
81 grew sl<eptical of sunstrokcs soon
after | reached Japan, and. despite the
protests of other new arrivals, | dis
carded hat and clothes. | never felt
better in my life than did then. Yes
I'm going back 10 Japan, nature ahi tn
sunshiEe.'-N. y. Press.