The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-03
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THEIR; WIVES.
The Japanese Soldiers Are Eli -, I:
81 couragcd by the Govern 6 'r11:' n,
mcnt to Do So. s
WOMEN SMILE AND SUBMIT I: VI
Her Happiness Considered Moth Moth
6 Rich and and Poor Poo 9...
Patriotic.


NV Edward r. 11ayden)
TOXIC, March 5.--Even before all her
d forccR have been put In the field and her
,,lan of campaign fully developed = a y, q,
IL beginning 10 find out that war 's ., ~.
ii Is less than n month since tho tir f'
attack on the Russians ut Fort Ar ''lth'ulrf,
and yet only the clnritableness OF tho 4
,noneycd class isJkeeping thousands OF
soldiers families from actual sthfVat le
and body and soul together IN other reg reg
imcnts OF the poor.
81 Hostilltcs have practically wrecked al
Industries except those dependent on con- con:
flict. Manufactures have ss.ut down oy
Tho bundled: scores OF business houses
n every city anu town in Nippon have
closed. and hundreds have reduced their5
working forces; while shipping, building
and kindred branches OF work arc apso-g
1ltcly stagnant. AS a result. the income
OF thousands OF workers has Deen Guy
or. for the carpenter end the lacquer
patn,cr and tho bottle blower, who have
taken, & TO pulling rickshaws. have found
that tho public walks nowadays. NO ono
Is indulging In any form OF luxuiy anu
the we'll n to do are cutting Down the'r
comforts even disnligsing servants VINO
nave been In the family for years. Tho
number Of servants dismissed By private
families In this city alone. TO say nothing
IA OF the clubs hotels and restaurants.
would mako several regiments. Tho Jl)l
Shimpo. Tokio's leading and most conser-
vative paper. estimates that while hereto.
fore the percentage OF dependents IN the
city was three, It is now over twelve ana
fast increasing
TO make the situation worse. the price
al every necessity has bounded skyward
and Is steadily soaring. Rice has gone
up twenty per cent, vegetables eight per
cent, dry goods five per cent. and the
cost III meat makes 1t prohibitive except
10 the very well to do indeed. Food
stuRs come In slowly and Unlimited guam
h titles from the interior, owing TO the GOV
ernment's monopolIzation Of the railroads
for military purposes: and even IN the
Interior, the last part OF country TO be
affected by war. prices are up ten per
cent. so great is the demand OF the GOV
crnment for commissary supplies for the
army For this reason no one looks for
prices to fall when the railroads are again
In a position to carry commerce freely.
There is use for all tho money that will
DO contributed.
Mayeda Sawajuro w1s n LACQUER pain
.3Stter before hs was called into the army.
IIc employed two assistants and a mes
e,angcr boy. His income was 20 yen
month, and with this he supported an
aged father and mother, brother Of
seventeen, years and three younger broth
III ers Immediately the war began. TN. bus
& mess was closed. ali income ceased, the
family servants were dismissed and the
old father had to take to pulling rick
shaw, and the eldest brother TO sewing
handkerchcfs. The other brothers tried
4 for work. but could get none. ana no
z body rode In the old mans rlckshaW, lor
everybody walks In order to economic.
In a week th.. family income went from
~ zen TO a few sen a week, scarcely
enough to buy medicines for the invalid
and crippled mother.
Sfochdzuki Isaburo. carpenter made
Is zen u month and supported conf ora
l,lv an aged mother. wife. two chill
dren and his wife's sister. One OF the
child en- has been seriously III since last
.Jnly. When Isaburo went to war. the
woman tried to get work, but without
eucccss-no one wanted servants. the FAC
tories were discharging instead OF on
!. cupiug Isnouro had no relatives to whom
he could intrust the care OF his family,
and SO to-day It's members are depend
4 ont solely on charity. But before 1000
was taken to them they were much
ernaciated from hunger.
Those are two cases out OF thousands
Of similar ones: so Is that OF Okano Hid
cgiro which, to say the least, seems
peculiar to foreigners. but is truly Jap
8 nncse.
IIidegiro had n position In the Yoke
hama poston1ce that brought him 1agSen
u month. When he received his war sum
mons he was supporting a deaf mo her
md a BRIDE He asked his father-n-lnw
10 look after the two women. but no had
lost his position owing to hostilitles, and
did not have enough on hand to keep his
own family In food for a month. There
was only ono thing for IIideglro 10 do.
q md he did 1t. He sold his household
goods, took the proceeds and his mother
to an Intimate friend, and asked the lat
Iter to look after the mother with tho
money \ realized from the sale, Then
Hldegiro divorced his bride,
1T will now be easy for you to marry
again" he told her when he handed her
the divorce, and perhaps you can get g
now husband who will take care OF you,
Anyway, you can go out and look for
work; and then If you were stu my
WIFE thoughts Of you might keep me