Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-01-08

| man and her mother a Japanese wo-
man. She is more like her father than
| her mother and few would recognize
the fact that she has Japanese blood.
| Indeed, she is more often taken for a
| Frenchwoman and there is something
in her vivacious manner that would
impress stranger with that idea
1t is only within the last ten years
that the Japanese have realized that
girls as we'll as boys have brains which
should be cultivated. Prior to that
time a girl could obtain instruction
only in one of the fission schools
Now there are governn4 mt schools,
much like our public school, at which
the girls may obtain the limited edu-
cation considered needful
Miss Major entered the mission
school at Yokohama when she was lit
tie more than child. The school is
the oldest in Japan and has over 200
students. At the time Miss Major was
pupil it was under the direction of
Miss Crosby, sister of DR.. Crosby, the
well-known New York minister. The
young Japanese girl was an apt pupil
and was graduated from the institu-
ton at the age of Is.
The years of busy mental effort had
united her for the quiet, uneventful
life of the ordinary Japanese women.
and when one of the teachers in the
school suggested that she come to
America and study nursing the sug-
UPCfinn
very attractive.
With all the eloquence and persever-
ance of young girl absorbed in a
great work she overcame the obiec-
lions Of her people and sailed away
from Japan to enter the Northwestern
hospital as student in the nurses
training school. Everything was so
different even from the missionary
school that the young probationer had
rather homesick time of it. but she
never waVered and received her diplo-
ma with the class of '93.
THE most difficult part of the train
ing for me was the diet cooking she
said 'You know in Japan we never
use butter or milk and it was very
hard for me to learn how to use them.
always wanted to make the vegetable
sauce which is the Japanese substi-
tute'
Since her graduation Miss Major has
been busy with general nursing in
Minneapolis, with occasional calls to
Green, Iowa, and WATERFOWL, MINI.
She was too young to meet the REQUIRE
ments of admission to the Northwest
ern hospital training school and spent
the intervening year at Carleton col
lege. She entered the -ospital this
fall and has not yet finished her term
OF probation. When she has finished
her course and received her diploma.
both sisters will return to
their native country. They are not ex-
actly sure how their profession will be
regarded there
"Only old women nurse the sick in
Japan. did not dare tell my mother
for several months just what was do
ing at the hospital" confessed Miss
Major. She would have been horri-
fed and expected me to take all sorts
of diseases. Life in Japan is so diff
ferent. My sister and l always liked
the foreign way of living, but my
mother is conservative and clings to
the old customs of her people. .
There is another japanese woman in
Minneapolis with whom Miss Major
goes down to chat when she is lonely
or a longing to hear the familiar Ian
guage creeps over her. Mrs. r. Ito
is the young wife of a manufacturer of
bamboo furniture and she helps her
husband in the construction of the
unique tables, chairs and stands.
Mrs Ito came to America about two
years ago and removed to Minneapolis
from Colorado Springs this fall. She
is little woman whose Japanese per-
sonality is well-nigh lost in the Amer
lean clothes she wears.