Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-27

sound of revelry by night" indicates that
the last slashing and Tubing of The
household is in process.
Early in the morning, before five
o'clock, one is reused from slumber by
the sliding back in their grooves of the
wooden shutters (amados) which COM
pose the front and sides of the inn, and
after hat to WOO sleep is impossible,
for the daily life of the house has begun,
and every sound penetrates through the
sliding paper screens which f~orTSSkeN
bedroom walls. So one claps o~ne14Ahds
"a bell being an unheard of luxury
and Immediately with a series of Hei!
Hei! Heis! a rosy-cheeked little crea-
ture in a scanty kimono with volumin-
Gus sleeves, shufies in with an early cup
of tea. Her height is just so inches.
measured by my yard tape; but her elab.
orate couture makes her look at least
six inches taller.
One a live luxuriously for weeks on
masu Salmon trout, tori (~chicken).
and omelettes worthy of any chef; and
the natural simplicity of the people in
these mountainous resorts is unspoilt
by foreign influences, so that it is a per-
feet joy to live among them. They sleep
on the floor with a wooden pillow Una
Lura) under the neck, and a futon (quilt)
to cover them; and as a special act OF
grace. my landlord has given me four OF
these futon. wadded with cotton, which
form a thick mattress. In the day time
ones bedroom is a vacuum, for it pos
sesses neither walls nor furniture, nor
anything (there is a subtle resemblance
In this to the last stage of mani; the
room is simply an area of IL feet square,,
covered with soft tatami (mats) which
are made of rushes, and fitted closely
together. These ma s are always of the
same size-six feet by three feet-and
the size Of the room is calculated By
taeir number, so that one speaks of "a
six-mat ROOM or an "eight-mat room"
At night thick sliding screens (fusuma}
are put up to divide these spaces, and
lighter frames covered with rice paper,
which are called shoji. shut them of
from the outer verandas.
At odd ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the
stage to which ones toilette has adj
vancedl-the entire family appear, all
smiles and Ohayos (Good-morning:D
the object of the inroad being usually
to show the latest baby or babies! Par
ties Of Japanese come and go all day
long. the ladies travelling by kayo, which
is a shallow basket or litter with a small
roof above, slung from a pole carried on
the shoulders of two men, and the jap
anese double their knees and sit on their
feet quite comfortably. although person.
ally | always emerge from one with stiff
joints and a feeling of cramp all overt
There are naturally some drawbacks
to life in a yadoya (inn) and one of the
most irritating of these is what one
writer cleverly calls ''the bland imbecil-
ity" of the Japs when they do not under
stand, and intend to invade any par
ticular service required! Again. there
are myriads of unlimited guests swarm
ing in the spotless-looking tatami and
futon, who have to be reckoned with
as aggressive factors in ones daily ex-
istence! But apart from these PIN
pricks. life in a Japanese inn forms no
the least attractive chapter in a tray
eler's program. and it affords an excel
lent opportunity of studying at close
quarters the habitual life of the clean.
courteous and friendly little people OF
these picturesque islands of the Rising
Sun;