The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-21
HE COMES TO-"
Seventeen Days at Sea Disagrees
With Howe.
Again Enjoys a Real Bed in a
Real Room.
INTERESTING JAPAN.
Sights and Scenes in the
Oriental Country.
The Educational Bureau Suffers
From a Huge Fall.

From a Huge Fall.
1t was a pleasure to awaken this
Wednesday morning. November p. in
8 real bed. in real room, with high
ceilings. This pleasure was mine. as
g guest of the Oriental Palace hotel,
"a Yokohama. Japan. For the past
seventeen days, with the exception of
eight hours respite at Honolulu, I
have been almost dead. I was out of
order all the time I was at sea; moth
ing agreed with me- This morning, at
daylight, L came to; / was myself
again, physically and mentally. a
steamship is fine, but it has been COM
pressed into the small spaces. The
ceilings are low; your bed is narrow
your room is small; the entire ship
seems to have been placed in a huge
hydraulic machine, and squeezed as
much as the travelling public will pos
sibly stand. You can swing your nat
and hit the beautiful ceilings any
where i'm a ship.
Therefore, blessings on Yokohama
where I had a big room with nigh
ceilings, and wide bed. lt was oar
last night when I arrived, and the
uaDer lantern carried by my rickSha
man did not greatly illuminate the
city: but when looked out my windows
shortly after daylight this morning.
the bay. filled with shipping, lay be-
fore me. My room was on the top
story of the hotel; hotel clerks always
give me rooms high up, but they are
afraid of earthquakes here, so the
worst the clerk could do was the third
story. Across the narrow street from
my window lay enough of Japan to in
Carest q Kansas man; quaint houses
built in a way I had never seen before.
English sparrows, which / hale al
home, were flying about in their busy
way, and I was glad to see them In
the yard below. a boy came out
pumped a pail full of water. and
washed his face. Presently the hired
girl appeared. and hurried about; ap-
parently preparing breakfast.
couldn't help wondering how much
she got a week. In and, out the girl
went; always hurrying. Once she came
out with three blazing sticks ana
dOused a pan of water on them: she
had used the meagre fire for some do
nestle purpose. and then thrown wa
ter on the sticks to save the wood fol
future use. Think of an AtCh1SOn ser
want doing that Children also APP
peared in the little yard or court il
seemed to separate the main residence
from the kitchen. The lady of the
house also appeared frequently on all
upper porch. as busy as the servant
girl below. A neWsbOy appeared and
left several copies of the morning pa
per; I decided that the place was a
boarding house. for several men a:~
peared who looked like boarders. So
much that was interesting was going
on in the yard that I called Mattel; We
had adjoining rooms. connected by "a
door. We greatly enjoyed the domestic
scene until our eyes wandered out into
the harbor beyond. and there we saw q
sight that chilled our enthusiasm.
the siberia" with its two big smoke
stacks. its spars and white paint That
sight sent US away from the window
but not before we had remarked that
on the porch of the boarding house
sat an American refrigerator: the
kind known as the yukon
Soon after arriving in Japan, you
learn to respect the Japanese: they
are so snapnv. so polite so much ir,
earnest have been hearing All tho
vvav over that the Chinese are suDer.
ior to the Japanese: we Yankees are,
becoming Jealous of the JaDanese he
cause of their recent remarkable ner.
formances in war and i'm civilization.
So I heard on the shin that the Chinese
are more 1,Onora1,Ia tl7T, me Tana.1oef
have seen he Tananase forfificatioTe
and the Japanese nav Yards ana :
Tapanese civ or two vo,1 ad1loiTe +oe
Japanese without reserve. even if they