The log cabin Democrat., 1907-06-06
The nearly 300 students of the To.

country. All that the government schools teach, and more is given in the Tohoku Gakuin, the students of which, like those of the former, are exempted from military service The vigorous athletics of the Japanese, as well as baseball and other American games, form a part of the physical training. Many of the students SUD- port themselves, working and living in the Industrial home which the denom- ination maintains at Sendai, arising at two and three o'clock in the morn ing to deliver milk and newspapers. There is pronounced religious life among the students; they have a Y. M. c. A., and hold student prayer meetings on the roof of the college tower; they do evangelistic work in the country, teach in Sunday schools, etc. One of them was my interpreter when l was called upon to make an address to the Manchurian veterans and other soldiers in the military hos pital, and he certainly was a self-pos- sessed, free and forceful speaker.
 Making the Most of Miss Japan.
 Japan's newly awakened interest in the education of women affords the missionaries an opportunity for work that reaches far. There are three schools for girls in Sendai maintained by American churches. As already said, that of the Reformed church, which has been in existence since 1886, is the largest and best equipped. It is run by three American young women, with staff of IA Japanese teachers, and has 190 students All but two of the graduates of this school have been Christians; and the aggressiveness of the Christianity of the undergraduate students is indicat ed by the fact that every week 20 diff ferent Sunday schools are supplied with workers by the school.
 A similar high religious standard is maintained by the Baptist school, which has 50 pupils and less preten- tious buildings The Methodist girls school, with about so pupils, of whom 25 liTe in dormitory, is industrial in character and does efficient work with an equipment unequal to that of the neighbOring schools.
 The Missionary as Matrimonial Agent.
 When calling at the Baptist school I was at first unable to see Miss Buz- zelle, the principal as she was busy condoling with a young man who wanted to marry one of her girls and was trying to enlist her help. I later met the young man, and fine fellow he seemed He had seen the girl once, and she had seen him. She was will ing, and he was eager-eXtraordina But his family felt that the girls so- cial position was not equal to his, though they finally consented to the match. Thereupon the girls family, it's pride aroused, refused to let her marry the man; and inasmuch as in this country girl really marries a whole family, and her future happi- ness is determined more by her hus bands relatives than by the latter himself, Miss BuzZelle thought the de- cision wise and declined to intervene for the ardent suitor A measure of this sort of responsibility goes with the principalship of a girls school, al ways, of course, with the cooperation of the family. The graduates are de- sired as wives, first of all by the Japa- nese preachers and Christians. An in- creasing number of educated men, not Christians, are selecting mission school wives, although the teachers rather discourage the girls from mar rying any but Christian men.
 Carinq for Famine Orphans.
 Most appealing to me of all the sights of Sendai was the orphanage which is an outgrowth of the famine, Here 25O children, some of them lit tie girls who were kept from being sold into immoral lives, find a home under the care of Miss Frances E.. Phelps, a Methodist Episcopal mis- sionary who nobly represents Ameri- cas- finest article of export-the cul- tured fine-spirited. self-sacrificing women who have given their lives to what they consider the worlds high est welfare. Miss Phelps mothers
 this great company of children, ran ging in age from two or three years to thirteen or fourteen, many of them orphans only because abandoned by their parents during the famine
 They are Q healthy, merry lot, al though when rescued there were only two who were free from the dreadful eye trouble so common among the poor of Japan, and all were covered with rags, filth and vermin. The al iteration in their appearance within these few months is no more marked than their development along other lines. They sing the Christian hymns, in wide variety, more heartily than l have ever heard them sung by Sun day school in America. On a slight 1 financial foundation this orphanage is 1 doing work of vast importance. | c