Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-04-19

had been accommodating capital were able
to buy the old estates, and it is this Japan
csc merchant, with his wealth and power,
who is to the front in Japan today with
Methods which Japan had always despised
under the old regime. 1t is a question If
this merchant is going to injure the integ-
rity of the nation. Foreigners in the many
ports have also treated the Japanese most
unfairly In many ways They adopt to-
ward all natives of the country the man
ner which they use to coolies. The Japan
csc is a creature of courtesy and 1t is very
hard for him to understand this method.
1T Is not at all fattering to western
countries to find what magnificent civil
fzatiOn the Japanese have built I'D without
copying us in the least"
Gent1eness to Animals.
If the behavior of animals Is of any sig
nificance Japan must have been the origi-
nal garden of Eden. The animals around
the Buddhist temples are all as tame as
squirrels in the Columbia campus. The
deer will eat from your hand, and the
crows will swoop down from the air to get
their share. Even the snakes will crawl
up to be fed. One of Prof. Deans friends,
seeing one Of these sacred serpents making
I9r MN. as he supposed. killed it in his
alarm, and shortly afterward departed very
expedltiously from that neigh borhood fear
ing the wrath of the populace.
Prof. Dean gave some delightful views
which the foWer-loving Jap has a contin-
uous series through the year.
About this time In the spring." said the
speaker. the people in all the cities will be
taking half holidays. They will go out to
the cherry groves and sit half a day at
the little tea tables placed about under the
trees, admring the color and bloom of the
beautiful trees. In May comes the iris fes-
tival' which is peculiar to Yokohama, when
the people visit the great fields of iris
Then in June comes the festival of the wis
taria, the magnificent vines, with pendant
bloom six feet in length. Later comes the
great chrysanthemum shows, the emperor
giving his annual chrysanthemum party in
the fall. I have seen one plant with six
hundred mammoth blooms upon It, Late in
the fall comes the maple festival when the
maple trees are turned a vivid red, far
more intense than anything in this country
The Japanese are wonderful gardeners.
Ihey Will make twenty feet of ground look
like young forest of ten times that area,
with their use Of DIV; # trees and their
similation Of natural scenery"
Professor Dean praised the exquisite
cleanliness Of the japanese house. 1.-THE
mats are as white as snow" said he, land
the Japanese would no more think Of en-
tering such room with his shoes on than
we would think of walking on top Of the
piano with our shoes on
Some views of the laboratories and COL
lectfng stations Of the geological depart
ment Of the Imperial University, where
ioiCSSoi Dedi4 was occupied making COL
lect1ons for some time. were shown. One
collecting station on the seashore was upon
an estate which had been the home Of a
great prince. Although the prince was
killed, with his garrison, five hundred years
ago, the people round about still consider
the place haunted, particularly by the spec
ter of the former owner And they still
have local holiday on his birthday, which
they celebrate by religious ceremonies
games and wrestling. In the face Of the
rocky cliff opposite the station was an iron
door which opened into the old granary Of
this ancient prince, rock chamber carved
in the hillside.