The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-19

as they were supposed to be in foreign
countries They do not play with fans
and walk IN the streets carrying oranges
and paper napkins in their long sleeves
as they do In 30 many Japanese plays and
stories-ln America They are wonderful
workers. From the Empress down TO the
women of the lowest cluss they are working
as hard ma possible. Work, work. Work,
/ is the cry Of our Japanese women to-day.
Really, in some respects am glad we
are having this war, 1t will mark an era
for the japanese woman. Hereafter one
will have chances. Woman's real work
! may begin. she will no longer serve as
merely household ornament.
"Our model. and our inspiration, especially
at this time, is our beloved Empress. She
appears to III "a a mybol Of wisdom. benevo-
lence gentleness AMI chastity. She ia the
Empress among Einpresses She is perteo-
ton. We are happy to have her and i've
under her shadow and become ennobled
Yes. we Japanese women all look upon her.
our great Empress. with devotion and love.
"a of a thousand Japanese mountains turn
ing toward Holy Fujii with the divine white
cap 80 far above u.s.
The Warehouses Oyama has had a most
interesting career. She was born in the
Aizu province, where the hardy warriors
in our history come from. Her father was
a great samurai, and her mother beauti-
fil woman and q model japanese mother.
Upon the destruction Of the feudal govern
ment their family was terribly impoverished.
The mother had disciplined all of her chill
dren well and instructed them nobly The
Warehouses learned the teaching OF Con-
fucius at very early age, and ] have
been told that she was even obliged to work
as a little child 70 earn few cents. She
was only ten years old when she was sent
TO America She was chosen a. the clever
est among n thousand little girls, and sent
by the Government to the United States TO
be educated That was in Meia 4, that IS
1871.
There we're two other little girls who
shared in the distinction accorded the
daughter Of the Samurai. One was Ume
Tsuda, who has since become Japan's
greatest woman educator. The other is
the wife of the celebrated Admiral Uriu.
They we're in charge OF Ambassador
lwakura, who was the first ever sent to
America. The Marohioness told me laugh
lnRY, ana WIN ui OtNdNlNhha "
sarcasm. how they we're received in America,
especially in Washington and New York.
II was an odd circumstance that one
evening at the Authors Club in New YORK
CITY. last winter, | heard the very story,
from the other point Of view, from Edmund
Clarence Stedman. The Warehouses was
delighted to learn Of what was said and TO
4 find that the gentleman who arranged the
details OF their reception, their hotel ac-
| Communications and thousand other com
/ forts was the famous American poet and
man of letters.
why. | never dreamed it was he who
did so much for us the Marchoness again
exclaimed with pleasure.
In Washington the little girls we're put
under the protection Of the Japanese Min
[ lister. the late Arinori Mor. 1t was he
! who decided TO separate the children, since
! they spent al day long only in singing and
! playing.
"Apd, indeed. if we had stayed together
perhaps we should not have learned one
English word" said the Marchioness.
| She was sent to New Haven, Conn, 10
the Rev. Mr. Bacon's family. In her nine
teenth year she succeeded in entering
| Yassar.
At the Same time her brother, now the
president OF the university, entered Yale.
| He came once a week to visit his sister
/ aud to teach her Japanese. In four years
! the Marcboness graduated from Vassar
! with the highest donors She read the
valedictory and the subject OF her essay
was. sEngland's Policy Against Japan.
! IL won her tremendous applause. 1t was
commented upon in the newspapers and
| finally translated by the japanese Gov
! eminent.
Such a subject for a girls essay! With
out question she was ambitious, and at
that time. America having some small
misunde rstanding with England, her essay
was timely and suggestive.
During her college life the Warehouses
occupied always the first place in her class
and was the president OF several clubs
and societies. She related laughingly TO
me how she once lost her nerve, and her
speech with 1t, when invited to make an
address before many persons, and she still,
considers IL the most difficult thing TO adj
dress public assemblage.
When the Marchioness returned 10 Japan
| after her degree was conferred she did not
know how to make even a japanese kimono,
| but it did not take her long TO learn. She
was married twenty-three years ago TO
! Field Marshal Oyafna then a distinguished
General and n mighty figure OF Japan. The
| late Marquis Saigo was the middleman at
| her marriage. The alliance was at first
considered unequal on account OF the high
rank and distinction OF the General, but
Marquis Saigo insisted upon It. saying that
| the wisdom and culture Of the brilliant
] Young ladv wore tha rnrRst thinpa in the
world SO the marriage took place and
has been rarely happy one. Marchioness
| Oyama is 80 practical. systematic and ao-
complished that she has made OF the Field
Marshal's home a place Of comfort and
| delight. YoEE NoGUcH.
Secretary Shaw's Definition.
From the Chicago Record Herald
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