The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-06-16
FAIR TOlLERS FOR JAPAN
Women's Work In Behalf Of the
Army and Navy.
GLADLY LABOR m A COLD ROOM

GLADLY LABOR IN A COLD ROOM
High social Leaders spend Eight
Hours a Day In Making HANDBAGS
For the Men NJ the Front-So Talk
ing Allowed In the warkroorp.
other Instances Of Patriotism.
The rokushl Kango Fujinkai (Nolun
tary Society Of Women Nurses, nm
der the presidency of her imperial
highness Nashimot0 and Fushimi and
with the patonesses the Marehion-
ess of Nabe@aima, shlmatsu ana 9th.
ers undertook 10 contribute 10000
roller bandages to the army. navy and
the Red Gross society, says a japanese
correspondent of the New York Globe
writing from Tokyo. The members are
meeting IN the upstairs rooms Of tie
Red Cross society building ID Shibuya,
Tokyo and engaging busily in manu-
featuring A few days ago | visited
them aud carefully observed the ladies
of the highest society In Japan work.
Inc like girls who cannot afford a pair
Of tahi sacks regularly | was inn
pressed by their mighty demonstration
Of patriotism. Just think 81 the honor
able ladies' Of the royal family working
from o'clock in the morning Till 3
o'clock and with only a rice bali (mu-
subj or one or two Of sandwiches
Tor their luncheons
On the day | visited them ! saw
II l. II Nashimoto and Fushimi. Mar
ehioness Nabeshima. Warehouses To-
kugawa, Warehouses Matsudaira, Mar
ehioness Hachisuka, daughter Of Mar
quis Mori, and other ladies' with great
titles sitting Of standing iii 4 row, with
scissors ID hand on moving q rolling
machine There were some 100. The
members were divided into three par
ties, and the date was fixed for each
party TO appear to work, but they
could not wait Mr. TaISagl 4 member
DC the Red Cross society, assured me,
for their turn OF day. So all the ladies'
attend every day without taking any
rest.
The room was tremendously large
There was only one stove, and the
weather was still cold When the mo
ton to put some more stoves iii was
brought before II. l. II. Nashimoto,
she said chat they should not wish
such luxury when the soldiers and
sailors are suffering at tie front So
they are gladly working IN The bare
cold room.
It Is forbidden to talk iii the room.
They have one hour for rest at noon
Before they enter the workroom they
are obliged TO undergo the process OF
dislnfection. They wash their hair
and trim their finger nails. Everybody
does Ii, even the ladies' Of the royal
family And IT. II, NashImoto is
said 10 be The cleverest worker, pro-
auclng daily more than fifty rollers.
Even the slowest lady can make some
twenty or So There is no waitress
when they have luncheon. | was told
that her imperial highness will help
herself With her tea and even wash
her own dishes
And the kazoku jogakko (the peeress
school Will not be behind in patriot
ism. IL you drop IN ia the late after
noon after their hours of lesson. you
viii see all the gal students. 400 ID
an. with fifty teachers wearing white
caps ana aprons, working hard at
bandage making It is said that they
make 1000 rollers every day Among
tie students there is many d princess
who VIII not fail to work with the 9th
en- GIRLS. The students have stopped
playing tennis or any other games at
home as well as at school, and they
are hurryng to make rollers.
One OF the Tokyo papers reported a
story Of Miss Aino Kawakaml who
lost her parents some years ago and
Inherited considerable money When
the war kegan size decided to SO with
the army as a nurse She divided her
fortune into three parts, one Of which
she contributed to the army and the
others SHE left TO her relations and
asked her uncle to give one part to
somebody who should be adopted g
take her family name She had been
seeing many influential people N To
kyo for such a purpose She called
on the Red Cross society and was told
that no Inexperienced woman would be
taken She called az d newspaper of-
flee in tears and asked for advice.
There are d thousand and a thousand
stories like that. Here is a story which
is superstitious, bat at the same time
shows an admirable spirit and patriot
ism The story came from the province
Of Shiga. Some time ago i travelling
priest stopped at the temple Of shin
/ Zenkoii, Of the 0shitate village and
preached before the old women and
young girls. He told them that it was
the greatest time for Japan, when the
nation must show IFS mighty strength
and determination. After that All Tho
/ women discussed how to help the ma
ton. They decided to meet together ir
the temple every day for prayer ano
also hey VIII cut their hair, SINCE il
their souls be not pure their prayer
I win not he accepted by the Lord Bud
dha. III Japan it has been regarded
from time immemorial that g cut tbs