The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-25

able to get out. The people in the store
were all travelling one way; if you want
to buy paper of pins at this store
you must go in at one door end out
at another, after spending half an hour
passing through narrow avenues lined
with all sorts Of goods you care nothing
about. Clerks stand about in the mar
row avenues ready to show you goods.
Very few Of the girl clerks were partic-
ularly pretty, but they were neat, and
intelligent and interesting. Good look
ing women are not as plentiful in Japan
as expected.
You have no doubt visited an Ameri-
can exposition on a big day.
thought of such an experience while on
the main street of Toxic this afternoon
It was holiday, ana the crowds were
so large that compared the experience
with being at the st. Louis exposition
on a big day. The streets seemed as
strange and interesting as the exposl-
ton grounds. The people Of Toxic
are not as polite as the people OF Xo-
kohama; evidently they 40 nor see SO
many Americans and Europeans IN
Yokohama, We attracted no attention
a all; here the people look at US Curl
OuSly. In Yokohama every sign IS re-
peated in English not so here. Ihere
are very few English signs IN TOXIC,
and the few you see are spelled wrong;
the people here don't spell English
words much better than my Education
al Department.
To me. the most interesting thing in
Japan is the rickshaw man. Blythe
way, here is the correct way to spell
the word: L copied it from manufac-
turer'S sign: JinrickiShas but II IS eV-
erywhere pronounced "rickshaw. The
rickshaW man who pulled me today mas
been in the business, within the sulue
knowledge, ten years. he was not
much larger than an American boy OF
.. q weighed a hundred
pounds yet he pulled me at a trot az
over Toxic. I felt ashamed Of mySelL
at times, and had a notion to ask the
little man to get in the buggy ana let
me pull awhile. Some Of these men are
elderly, and have been on the track ~
years. Their legs are bare. and their
muscular development IS wonderful
The guide says one OF these men can
keep up the trot all day, and pull an
ordinary load. Their power OF endur-
ance comes from long practice anu
training No rickshaW man ever walks
with a passenger; he trots all the Tune.
Say we had rickshaWs in Atcnlsoh IN
stead of hacks. If a man living at
Harmony Garden should call one N
which to go to the union station, the
rickshaw man would trot all the way,
and pull a passenger a third HEAVIER
than himself. The word Jlnrlklsh means
literally 'man-power buggy
Speaking of little men, every Tune 1
look at a street car in TOXIC, lhlLA
to myself Hello, the STREET railway com com
pany hires boys as mOtornen ana con
ductors' The japanese are very nluciA
smaller than Americans.
There are thirty daily newspapers in
Toxic. some of them confined nanny 70
the particular districts in y nich tneyr are
published. This is Ike PARIS agalnl,s 4 n
sist that the Japanese are much Ilhe Us W,
E7rencb When a neWsbOy appears with
an extra he excites attention by lleil5
a bell to his feet, and this cIatlers @s
printed on one side of sheet no laf$eI
than The Globe was when it orlSlnaily
appeared I visited a newspaper oI1ice
located on a prominent corner. inc en-
trance, which was rather ornate was
eluttered up with INK paEreIs. 1lgre
were four or five flat-bed three reN0Iu-
ton presses in the press ROOM Ine
Globes press will print more papers N
an hour than the presses saw could
nrinf an dav The guide said The news
paper was a reliable one bot not par
ticularly prominent. lie lEen TOOK me 70
see the office of the leading newspaper
in Japan. In its press room it hau d
new Hoe press of the latest pattern ana
an old perfecting press IN a room ad9oln-
ing. The mailing room had a dlrL IlooI'
and the press room was heated with lit
tie coal stove; one of the kind you see in
a One-dOllar-a-Week room at nome
Every reporter and editor has ricllshaW
man and a number of these were waiting
IN tbe Ioohy IN New York and Chicago.
the newspaper offices are among the
great show places. I do not believe the
Japanese know as much about the news
paper as they know about war
asked the guide if the japanese news
papers use linOtypes, but he didn't under
stand me, so you can haTs it any way
yOu choose.
have encountered another novelty
here: tea and toast IN my room at 5 p. m,
and dinner at 7:30. The chalnhermaids at
the hotel are all men; haven't seen a
woman about the place. The women are
probably out fathering che rice ana wad-
ing in mud up to their knees. The wonl-
en- are not only ornamental here; they
are useful as we'll. American women who
visit japan are apt ct attract 50 little at
tention that they will feel insultcd Cur
American notion that a woman is an
angel, and the bulwark of our great ma
ton and the home-maker. although she
often does her home-making through the
hired girl. is unknown here. E W H
GRAFT IN ROOSEVELT HOME.