The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-05-23

The Demonstration Was Voluntarily
Planned TO cheer the Men = FIags
ana Lanterns Were waved on All
sides How one soldier Parted
From his wife ana Little ones.
THE Japanese women never weep,
SO concluded the writer 81 Japanese
love story If that writer could have
seen a parting that / witnessed tie
other day, he would not thus have
committed himself, says the core
spondeut Of the London Sc. James
Gazette, writing from Kobe, Japan.
The man was not a little Jap He
was not tall man. either. OF medium
height, with a big chest and square
shoulders, and d coantenance which, if
not altogether handsome, was unmis-
takably honest, he was a typical sol
der and a man There were others
similarly uniformed on the platform
and a small crowd wearing tie tradi-
tional kImopo and clogs watched them
with admiration as they strapped up
their Announcements OF squatted on
their knapsacks and talked ana pulled
their cigarettes. That might be their
last sedan ON that station, for they
were OF to face the Russians in Korea
Through the gate came woman
The official there did not insist on the
platform ticket, which is essential on
al japanese railway stations for the
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aside and allowed her to pass. She was
distinctly pretty. and with the pleas
ATTEST arlgato in acknowledgment Of
the privilege accorded her by the of
iiciaB passed on to the platform. /
noticed tAut her lips were Redeemed
aud her fIce VAS slightly powdered,
and tle ,liy baby She was carrying on
Ter back was dressed In his pictur-
esGue holiday garb The little girl
who. chung to the woman's kinono was
also attped in a new dress Of the
brightest colors. her straightly cut hair
with the little shayen circlet Oh the
crown bearing evidences of special at
tentiou for d special occasion, and her
chubby little face delicately 'im-
proved" by a cosmetic touch.
The woman's smile of thanks quick
" gave place to a look Of concern. but
her countenance frightened again as
she espied the group Of soldiers, and
| the one for whom she was looking
pressed through the little throng and
advanced toward her. Again she smiled
4 and courtesied as her husband greeted
her in that severely polite and formal
way which is the manner Of japanese
husbands at all times. With but a
word to the woman, he playfully snap
i ped his fingers for the edi6cation OF
his son and heir, and then the little girl
left her mother and took her fathers
| oufstretched hand in both hers and
| looked up at him inquiringy. They
sauntered TO the quiet end Of the plat
form, the mother folding her hands ~
her back FOR the support of the infant
sure sign of fatigue, and ! could see
by the manner OF the little girl as she
sided up to her father, almost over
balancing herself on her tiny clogs
that he had cracked joke for her es
| pecial benefit
For awhile / forgot that little family
as | noticed the railway officials busily
| displaying from the waiting rooms and
booking offices the hino-maru, the TN
4 pretentious but elective Japanese flag
which has SO frequently been entwined
with the union jack Of late, While many
people were arriving AN paying for .
platform ticket and all bearing a hin0
mam Of some description. They
brought red and white lanterns, too
and / now understood why it was thai
the tea houses in the vicinity Of thu
station, the station hotels, were fes
TONED with lanterns bearing the famil
/ lar emblem of the rising sun. These,
afterward learned, were left burning
| all night while the troop trains wer,
passing through ITO light the soldiers
on their way.
| There was yet half an hour befor,
the train was due, but the elatter @
clogs on the paved platform increased
and an was already hustle and excite
ment. Young girls in bright kimon'
and gay obi, with flowers or ribbons
ID their coiffured hair brought quain
little baskets, and a couple Of smilln.
coolies carried bundles Of long BAN
boos.
A full hour had elapsed; the trail
was more than thirty minutes late, an,
evening was falling The approach 0
the train was heralded by an unmusic
al sereech, evidently turned on for tn
occasion by The patriotic engine driver
End it was greeted with a yoeiferou
banzai which sounds very like hun
ray when shouted By crowd land a
it steamed slowly IN a hundred head
were thrust from the windows and
hundred tiny flags futtered and rus
tied in response to the banzai and way
ing of the crowd Banzai! Banzal
Ban Banzaii
The little group Of soldiers ga q
platform were joeularIy hustled into
compartment reserved for them, a
being presented by people in the crow
, with flags, amid the heartiest sage
naras. 1t was then that ] noticed th
mother and the children. There wer
no embraces with their goodbys, 4
kisses. no cambria handkerchiefs. 1h
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