The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-02-28
Japan 90 United States Russia

| form, performated by triangular aper-
ture for the admission of the blade. At
| either side are one or more openings for
! the Judgement Of two other accessories,
] called the kodzuka or small dagger and
/ the kogai or skewer The guards are
usually entire in design. A fish, serpents.
! a horse, mountain landscape, and many
| other features of nature are introduced
into the design of these sword guards.
! The handles of the small dagger and the
skewers are also exquisitely decorated
with inlaid mother-of-pearl in design or
| wrought images in the metal itself. Crabs,
! Holsters, serpents. and dragons enter very
| largely into their decorat tons of the dag
| ger The skewer usually has upon its
! handle some pattern or model, correspond
| ing in some way with the crest or mono
gram of the owner. It's use is three-fold
to the soldier. Sometimes he tatxes it from
its place and puts It in his hair to hold
it in place. In camp, it is often used as
a chop stick by him. In battle he uses
it to stick in the body of a dead adversary
as a sign of ownership. The small orna-
ments on the side of the hilt and tine cap
or pommef which covers the end of the
hilt are though very small, as perfect in
design as only the def fingers of the
Japanese and their patent work can make
them. 1t is a curious phenomenon that a
nation engaged in war constantly for six
or seven hundred years should produce
the most artistic and inimnable work OF
any nation in the world.
With civilization haS emma de-
basement of their productions. More. NAL
leable materials are used which can be
worked quickly into the ideas they wish
to express, and while the taste and skill
yet remain, II is only question of time
when 1t will be lost. Carelessness and
rapidity have taken the place of pa
tience and quality; and this all due to the
desire to supply the great demands that
like a fad has spread rapidly over the
world for some product of Japanese art.
Detroit Tribune.
Every war in foreign countries brings
to the reader of the war news a large
number of names of towns and rivers,
the spelling and pronunciation of which
is not familiar to us. Readers of the
current war news are much perplexed
over the pronunciation of 1.-The names of
towns in Japan. Russia and th;tt part of
the orient. 1 have investigated the pro-
nunciation of many of the towns and
places and find the proper pronunciation
IN our language to be as follows:
Japanese usually pronounce seoghaphic
names with very little accent.Cn any syl-
liable. Vowel letters are spoken broadly
"a as in an" letter ''e'' long sound.
'f'' as short e." 20" geneGally long
sound with exceptions as avn and "u'
as 100" AS a rule both the final letter
Of a syllable and the following one re-
there is but little slurring OF sounds. The
letter f. at the beginning of "a name if
followed by III" is not distinctly spoken
pronounced as if spelled .'fkwoo.'
Tokio-Toa-ky-oh.
-gah-sah-kee.
ate-Hah-ko-dah-teh.
observation-disclosures he-mah.,
Observation-Disclosures
F'ukuoko-fkwoo-okah
Sasebo-Sah- say-bo.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS NAH.
Observation-Disclosures
Nanao-Eah-nah-oh.
Tsuruga--Tsoo-roo-ga h.
iiagata-Nzhe-zhe-g ah-tah.
Observation-Disclosures.
Sakata-Sah- kah-tah.
i-Eesh-e-kah-rey.
Osaka-Oh-sah-kah.
Kinshu-Kyn-shoo.
Many Korean and Chinese names are
pronounced by Japanese rules nat many
have a very decided accent IN the last
syllable notably the followias:a
Yalu Criver)-Yah-loo.
hemulpo-Chee- mweel-po.
Masampo-Mah-sam-po
Mokpo-Moach-po
Chefu-Chee-foo. -
Wiju-Wee-zhoo.
Yongampo-Yong-a hm- Pc.
MISUNDERSTANDING
Seoul-Sool.
-Fusan-Foo-sahn
Wonson-Wohn-sohn.
Chinnampo-Cheen-nah
Yang Yang-Yahng-Y ahng.
Koesing-Ko- seng.
Sarachok-Sahm chalk.
Chungju-Chwang-Zh
Observation-Disclosures.
an-Tah-leen-wahn.
Chinwangtao-Sheen
Weihaiwei-Wee-hig highway.
KiOchan-Kwaw-c haw.
Pechii-Pee-chee
The Russian town Vladivostok. so
much mentioned, is a Russian Esne and /
is pronounced with IA as in rather,
az as long sound of "e." ali! each 20
with long sound-syllabled Vla-di-v"s-tok. !
with decided accent on the last syllan-e. /
The foregoing list of Jan Korean I
and Chinese pronunciattons will afford !
some guide TO the proper Recommendation /
of other names in that par: If tie weld /
Cut out and preserve the lie. above ard it !
will be very helpful when raa5inG OF 4
places named In the daily W Il news es- /
pecially when reading out loud where
others may hear you.-A. ) H0isinstca.
AUTOGRAPH ALBUM
An autograph letter from Thomas JEFF
ferson. written a hundred years ago TO
the Indians of the Louisiana Purchase.