The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-16

safe there This is far from being the
case when the daughters are sent to
some of the big schools in Toxic.
! Here ] pass by, for the present, at
| least, what is ono Of the most scan
/ dalous aspects of modern japanese
| life. Whatever thc cost however,
many japanese parents feel that their
/ daughters must he educated, for only
/ thus can thev hope TO obtain educated
! husbands. The mission schools. | have
| found, keep home life to the fore as
the great goal Of education. To that
end they teach, in addition TO the Gus
tomary branches of higher education,
/ domestic science, Japanese etiquette
and the finishing touches that go to
make up tho accomplishments Of
| nativc lady. II was noticeable. too.
! that these schools pnid particular heed
/ TO the ventilation of sleeping apart
ments; the ordinary Japanese inn and
lGmc are open TO every breeze that
| hlows during the daytime, but at night
they arc made alright.
Caring for Famine Orphans.
Most appealing 20 mo of all the
sights Of Sendsi WIS the orphanagc
! Here 2j0 children, some of them lit.
| tie girls who were kept from being
sold into immoral lives, find home
| under the care of Miss Francis H.
! Phelps, a Methodist Episcopal mis-
sionary who uobly represents Ameri-
ca S finest article Of cXport-the cul-
! tured. 6ne-spiritcd, sclf-sacrilicing
women who have given thcir lives to
VII II they consider the world high
est welfare. Miss Phelps "mothcrs -
| tn s. great company of children, rang
! ing in age from two or three years
to thirteen or fourteen, many of them
| orphans only because abandoned by
| thor parents during the famine
They are a healthy, merry lot. al
! though when rescued thcrc were only
| two who were free from the dreadful
| eve trouble SO common among the
poor Of Japan. and all were covered
with rags, filth and vermia, The al
| tcratIon IN their appearance within
these few months is no moro marked
| than their development along other
lines. They sing the Christian hymns.
| In VIDE variety. more heartily than ]
have ever heard them sung bv Sun,
day school in America. On slight
financial foundation this orphanagc is
doing a work of vast importance.
| which must commend itself to one S
sympathy and Judgment, he he Hot
tentot, buddhist or Christian,
a Wild Dash Over City.
The Sunday which | spent in Sendai
was a unique experience of how the
East hustles the West Unwitting OF
what the request meant. | expressed a
desire to sec the Sendai churches for
myself so programme was made
for me, and With Rev. i. f. Steiner of
ONO as guide, / WAS started out early
in the morning IN iinrlcksha drawn
| by two coolies, for a wild ride that in.
cluded visits 10 eleven churches and
two Sunday schools Small wonder
| one of the coolies proved UNEQUAL to
the strain, for the tour was made on
dead run,
There arc 1900 Protestant Christians
and 500 members of the Roman Cath.
| olic and Greek churches among the
| 100000 inhabitants Of the city In
addition 30 numerous congregations
meeting in private residences, there
are ten churches. all Of course, with
| native pastors, established in their own
buildings. Two of these latter, the
| Reformed and the Methods. Episcopal,
| would adorn any town in the Western
world. There arc 33 Sunday schools,
with an average attendance Of 1854
every Sunday. On the streets | saw,
| Just as at home, scores of persons on
the way 10 and from the churches, car.
rying the little fat red hymn book aud
a Bible done up in pocket handker-
| chief-in Japan nothing is carried uu-
wrapped.
The first place | visited was the Con
gregational school, where fifteen per
sons, mostly Young men students, were
| found. Later | returned for church and
met congregation of 100, still largely
composed of young men. The pastor of
the church is especially popular with
students. Miss Bradshaw was the only
white person in evidence, DR.. DeForest
being absent from the city. The Con
gregationalists have long-established
evangelistic and Bihle-tcaching work in
Scndai; but, no institutions. DR.. De.
| ese, both here and throughout Japan
| is great. Miss Bradshaw like the
other missionary ladies, has been very