The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-16

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iii, and 1 think they would rather re-.
sent d pictured or unprecedented OyainH
Under six feet In height. IN the wonder
I fui prints Of ltirid war scenes one finds
| iii tho windows OF bool-sllops and In nil
tho baznars, tile ovcrestinlation OF the
| size of tho Japanese soldiers is the run
NEST thing In the world. They are al
! ways as large ms their Russian foes,
! ana many tl1lees much larger, and the
attitude they strike would make tho for
tune OF any ,nelodrn1nntic actor. Forytn-
| stance tho eother day r. came across r
ncture, In brilliant reds and yellows OF
Inc, meeting between General Stoessel
| and Nogi ut Port Arthur. Nogi lowered
Mt least two inches above his crestfnllef
FOE, aud lie claspcd him by the hnnd
with an air which plainly said. '.There..
little chap, never mind. You DID az tnht
could possibly have been expected OF
yo,,. considering who 1 am so the
audience at Ntclji WINS delighted with the
slx.root Oyams, and fully believed IN
In act third wc meet 4 famous capital
who Is snppnssiHd t. ha rf he maze EXPENSE ue
Of r'foH IKE nrg,ist government during the
ia pan-chlna War. lie IS very rich, :, hn !,
nobody in japan enyies nm MS n wfa far
Ghw was and hH il s' ihs a 'e tSe Villain
i thrown in his face BY thu. righteous
hero after It had been quietly paid TO
save the honor Or Of #, the , 1nmi wyonld have
led Is to ) n revenge az all murders Of
this character were, called, and to a. an
honorable 'haraklrI," or self-exeesuti I1,,
lain clnched his hands, tore the bit Of
paper in pieces and stamped upon them
then shook his fist lnenacinglS NJ the
rctrenting figure, Of Takeo. t couldn't
been dqne 1ete NcW Yerk IN the
fourth net, wo have s'rnkco and Nampi-koo
together at Kushi, down on the sea-
coast whore they have g little summer
place. Nami-ko looks to DC IN Just
about tho last stages Of consumption.
while Takeo Is all hat could be desired
in Vigorous young health. Now. 1t. Is
said there is no such thing as marital
loye In Japan, but It seems ns e tbs e scene
between Nani-ko and Takeo quite DIS
proves the assertion,
Marital Love.
In his nasterful book. on the social
ana psychic Evolution of the.J panese,"
MIR. Sydney L. G'ullcki says: In no re-
Eard the n contrast
in the respective ideas concerning Wo-
man and marriage. The one counts wo--
man the equal IF not the superior OF
man; the other looks down upon her as
considers profound love as the. only true
condition of marriage; the other thinks
of love as essentially impure. beneath
the dignity of a true man, and not to
rago is Contemplated" Then, the editor
Of tho Japan Mall, an Englshman, who
is himself the husband Of q! japanese
charming parsonage in many Ways
gracious. refined, Swomanly before every
thing, sweet tempered, unseltish, virtu-
GUS a splendid mother and an ideal
master But she Is virtually excluded
from tho whole intellectual life Of the
nation. Politics. art, literature. science
are closed books to her she hess ean a,
jects, express herself clearly with refer
ence to any of them or take an, intel
lcctual part in conversations ,relatlng 70
fed to be her husbands intellectual
companion. and the inevitable result Is
that he dcspises her,
estlng subject to one who knows the
Japanese woman, and the least observing
foreign visitors in the country could
bring forward lnach evidence in things
has been said regarding the wickedy
loose construction of Japanese society; |
but at the Nell Theatre Yesterday, !
was introduced to another side of the
seen In Japan before Nami-ko and Tokeo
We're alone Oh thc7 beach. The realism
of the scene was enhanced by tho reg
cal device behind. Naml-ko, sat ON u
rock under little ishinto Shrine. weep
ing bitterly. Takeo had been orderedlto
join his ship and proceed to the seat of
war, and she never expected to see him !
again. He paced up and down the sands, /
assuring her that she would soon be |
well, and that he would return safely
He sat down beside her, but he did mot
touch her. She was weeping aloud In an |
agony Of grief but 1t would have been
unseemly from a Japanese standpoint for |
cal carcss. It would have been resented |
as vulgarism, indeed. 10 he sat apart. |
and wcpt with her. assuring her, Of his
"bon e 0ye an % much h as pn
his hand upon her. Then he put his
arm over her shoulder Imply and howled
down the back of her neck in way |
l controlled my mrth. seeing that the
audience was in state of hysterlcal |
grief
Sit Flat on Floor.
The Mclji Theatre. like all others. is
made like huge cgg-box in partitioncd |
squares about three feet each way. and |
family crowds itself along will a tobae.
upon. the floor, which slopes up very
slIshtly and when theatre Is fui the
sometimes to discover whore ono person
leaves Off and another begins 1t Is not
ever, for these people sit still, sit quietly
upon their feet. with somebody touching
them on all four sides for seven and
eight hours at a s,relG,n! wei! r ms
goodbye 10 Nsml-ko and I saw several
women, and men as We'll co e,InI,i ttrt