The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-03-19

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 long before he has lssrned .to tell ths truth and to curb his temper. knows hi0
 mothers place, for. strange ss 1t may grand old doctrine of man sisail De faith- | fully preserved. Tn It's obIivfousness to
 the power of we'll developed womanhood
 Japan is far behind the other Christian
 Tt is not that the Japaness married
 woman has to toll and moi ir,ce.sAntIyl
 for the household She is provided with
 one servant. unless the family bs . poor!
 as in our own homes, in that respect, isi that of overseer. She has lefsure iul which she occupies herself much as any
 other woman in our own land might if
 raener narrow interests The Japanese wife has more actual freedom than any
 other wife In the East. The Turkish wo-
 spsns.s srs ssss proud n to aais ss sas they 5ealously guard the conservatism
 they deem necessary.
 The husband in Japan admires his
 He has complete authority over her. which he often abuses by alternate its of cruelty and indulgence.
 | said student to me once. speaking
 sha: Mfr. otsuka loves his wife all the | time. It Is a very curious thing
 Why was 1t a curious thing? Because
 love IS the highest expression of the unceasingly to suppress individuality. By
 this they may gain certain benefits not l go well known to the Western world, but
 It is undeniable that strong family af-
 individual, is and must be wanting to- large degree. It is right here that the West and East cannot and do not care
 to understand each other.
 II A ft1 va0 uu> I~ IL
 to feel that all creation exists for his penent, and if he is in a receptive mood ne finds 1t decidedly agreeable. No
 memoer of the family mars the illusion
 tastes or dsinss aR0n F 2. n ss if p's ali ss l innnite leisure to minister solely to hfs
 pleasure If the Japanese could only
 reshze now one pines for something sig-l
 nlncant, some expression which we do
 not afterward discover to be strictly
 classical. some petulant defiance even ofl
 their everlasting precedentsI
 sna et fS sss sus sss s
 ole individuality ever goes on. and the
 most successful because the most prac-
 tS t,esd actor in this national tragedy Is
 Wrts pos.iols and to mGssss sossea, If .v.-x ,t
 hope of the soul and feeling of
 every hope Of the soul and feeling Of
 tne heart by artificial gesture. then the
 Japsnese women could do 1t. But as it Is not. one soons learns the motives that underlie the substitutions, and from these
 lnseinctiveiy feels what the natural ex-s | pressfon woald be
 | Even foreigner soon decides the
 worth Of even Japanese smile, and ev- cry baby knows just how ntale his fath~l
 CTS frown implies. I wonder if the Jap-l
 ansse themselves do not take consider able pleasure in understanding each other m this round-about way. But this ssif~ | repression is not the lovely spoutaneitv.
 t seems: n is often dciorous duty and tne enect of severe schooling. It is cer- | peautiful as it is possible for art to be. The children of Japanese homes aret weii bred A foreigner never falls to no- | deferentiai to their elders, sweet and oongins among their equals, and patient 70 degree that is philosophical. yet no . more genuine children are anywhere to abilities. and in most cases these arc
 strapped to it's back, and 1t bears them l cneerfully. There Is a beautiful spirit Of neipfulness between brothers and sisters. direction for each other than they do | for their parents, for whom their respect
 is unoounded. Although the Japanese
 take great pride in their babies. and their growing sons and daughters, they strenu- ously endeavor not to reveal 1t, and if you have naught but their word for 1t you would think they were quite har- ano dssusssd ted with ,rhea ther Gsprn ! | left for Japan, you will have to refer to your baby as my dirty. insignificant and | troublesome little son. | Still. after all, no one can withstand l the blandishmeuts of an infant and
 many Japanese mother have I en- | trapped Into glowing details of the ac-
 complishments of her small children. | all the attention which mothers should. | She is ever at the beck and call of the
 head of the family to the exclusion of all | other requests. At such times if the ba- bies protest. they are stuffed with sweets l or turned over to the servants, and such | times are nearly all the time The ser wants are not refined but are kind heart | cd women, and they are closer members of the household than our servants are or would like to be. and for that reason ! they mother the children, and naturally get the greater half of their love
 Much of the discipline of the family is | turned over to the elder brother. It is | summary and sound. Occasionally the
 father devotes himself to the children. 1 on picnic or a walk, or in the evening, telling them stories or playing games, but never under any circumstances will he lay aside his pipe and his dignity to | crawl about on his hands and knees in
 the similitude of lion. 'Ototsan' is al~ ways imperturbable.
 Mothers and fathers often speak ad- miringly and wistfuily of the care and | love that are bestowed upon the children
 of the West, and 1t may come to pass
 some day that their own will figure mora as human opportunities than as issuess and heirs. | "A Japanese away from homo Is thel most homesick thing in the world. What is 1t he longs to get back to? His own family? His friends? No; these are too l easily put on and off. It is Japan itself. All Japan is home to him. and no won-
 der. Never did any nationality in any age become more amalgamated. Its rast | cial instincts exactly correspond to fam- fly pride and family affection. Besides, its blood relationships are so closely in~,