The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1897-11-09
BILEsE Houses Even Have Lit
tie Pats 8f Green.
MANUFACTURE OF BRONZE WARE
Some Curlos Customs - Bars to
Keep Out Foxes - Low Tenn
perzture at Night.
LsreelaI Correspondents.


EDITOR p. C. A:
i rzined all day long while were
travelling from Myanoshito 10 Kyoto
and as We ratified through the streets
zfte- leaving the station. the jinriki-
shz men splsshed through torrents OF
water pouring down the hard gravelled
pavement. the usual cutters being toe
sinai TO discharge the large amount
o. rain water thar had fallen. We
hear OF great damage done by the
foods. bridges swept away and tun-
nelE cEred in Ours was the last train
% came through and il VIII take many
DAYS 10 put the road in order.
Bar the morning after our arrival
Ezs zs bright as CHEEKY as any of our
Indian Summer days in New England,
The air was crisp. the atmosphere
cIezr- and the thermometer stood al
g. deg in the early morning, getting
I'd into the seventies before noon. The
rene-al impression made by KyOto is
that Of the cleanest. and most home
IkE CITY Ia Japan. The barred frames
that are supposed TO keep out the
foxes very much feared in Japan, are
q 3 reddish brown, not the funereal
hlaek We have seen elsewhere.
GEupses within The open gates show
miniature gardens with rock work
Etons lantern and ali the other con-
re1rioualities OF japanese home life.
I.arre wholesale warehouses and man
ufar-8rv establishments are hardly
-Euishable from ordinary dwell
fucs Indeed. such as We have visited
have their inner gardens in conyen-
-lurzl style as if they were the resi-
6enres OF the pr0prietors. We have
seen some marvellous manufactors,
and mandatory they are with none
81 the wonderful adaptations of mo-
CEN machinery. None the less mar
Vicious are they IN the products that
cuuH from the hands of the deft work
men Wi-h The simplest rudest kind of
too-z. The comhinati0n Of different
metals. silver. gold iron, brass is one
q -he -riuuphs Of japanese artisan
Ehir We saw mere boys and girls
hz-mmerinE gold iron wire on to rough
snez iron and producing landscapes
and flower pieces with the minutest
lengths Cf finest wire and smallest OF
hammers and chisels. all by the eye
alone. without q pattern to guide, but
working out some design Of their own
originating. Then cloisonnee work was
shown rs. the men with steel chop
sucks and small brushes laying on the
Others that on the finished work would
- clusters OF wisueria blossoms on a
haci- ground OF loveliest Of hues. And
he pottery work. which with thumb
AID finger the workman squatting on
his heels. turned of in such shapes OF
hElr from the wheel which an old
woman GA another corner of the flool
WIS WhlrliuE as she turned the bamboo
ir ber hand round and round on {
hu-rrn-El wheel And the embroioer5
and l-0cade- Be- Is OF no use 10 recount
-he many patterns and colors as yarC
E " was shown us from The
rial-Er shelves around the room. The
time and patience that many finger:
f-- many wears must have taken Il
ache such an amount OF work-fol
E for The admiration Of an idlC
urneu- and then 10 be set aside, u
Ehs- the dust Of ages in the treasure
house cf priest and noble. thence to b,
-ruhed and tossed In the hands o.
Euel-s-ers. chaFering for the best bar
El ahey could get from the foreign
Curi1 hunter
7r one place we visited. a tourist haC
spent $1,000 for articles bought. There
W one Of The famous pair o
screens that were made for the Chicago
Exposition. worth $4,000 each. havin.
rsir Cf vases was being made to thi
c-dr- az che Emperor for $500. of ex
uuisire design and workmanship. Thel
from these modern msrods of high ar
r Japan. we stepped into the store
where they had old br0nzes and uten
sis he sell. and again the incongruit,
thar strikes one 50 much and so ofte,
tr Ta1a1 was obvious in the hideou
and urlv shapes that are to be foun
tr close 5uTta position with forms o
ElECzuce and delicacv. II Is the oil
E-urv of human nature in object les
E1rs of Impressive startlingness. j
Ec1pe how Ike Al angel. in its condi
KIM how like The wriggling creature
of The sums
We have watched the varying as
7ecE of human life and toll. as "
hzrt Ehfrled along the streets denset
flied with a moving mass OF sombr
-inthef humanity We have wondere
=tr and bow these mvriads have lif
and sustguance As We have locke
fr-o -he faces az the women. many G
men viii hiaclzened teeth. givin
thei- uuen mouths toothless cavern
1us appearance as we have seen th
hzhes. -ied on The shoulders Of chill
f-Gl nu- uuoh older than themselve:
and their heads bobhing as IL thei
nscks nus break in the helplessnes
~ slee7- as We think OF a. 600 600 G
s-rh Fellow creatures. We are reminde
-f pictures that impressed our child
hand's thnuEh-s a. z negro slave wit
The question beneath the picture. Am
-u -zr and a brothers With tn
EruwlHdre of Cod. tire Holy and Low
Err One and 1he consciousness Of com
-uuiul and fellowship with Hin tia
tEre ooDs II rs through the Gospe
a. Re5eaui1E E-acs and revealed trutl
We uan u1iy c-T cut q Lord. how long
Sh1--C- The DAYS OF waiting wretched