The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1909-11-18
'BILN,',,,, I'm JAPAN
The Major Likes the Ladiss'
Hair and Tells How
They Dress L.
A NATION OF TEA DRINKERS

ho~ AhsS "ht-AueaS Foe8-
Curious Tree Growin'-ssill DO
Some Foolish Thing,--Most of
Their Customs Exactly Opposite TO
ours-whcn They All Drank Tea
for Ten Days-Friendiy Go Amers-
cans-Thc 'Geisha Giris"-T,e
Home OF Volcanoes and Earth
quakes.
Correspondence of The Caucasian
Enterprise.
Toxic. Japan. Nov. 4. 1903.
The japanese ladies devote much
attention TO the care ov their hair.
Probably no people on earth equal
them In that particular. Profession
al hair dressers air employed TO visit
them once, an. in some cases. twice
week. Ov course q man cannot
explain sich things. But they do
much combin'. brushin'. an oilin'. A
favorite dressin' fer the hair in this
country is sed ter be made from the
ordinary beetle. The ladies sleep
with a very hard. round cushion
under the neck In order that the hair
may not become much disarranged
durin' the night Hit seems that
some ov the women will do foolish
things. no matter whar you nnd
them-in America. In Africa. or in
Japan.
Most ov the Japanese houses air
built ov wood. an air seldom more
than one story high. The roof In
either matched or made ov tiling. In
few cases q very small shingle In
used. Ordinary dwellins air seldom
painted. The partition walls air gen
orally slidin' screens. The rooms swl
open into q small hall In the center
ov the house. there bein' no hallway
extendin' through the house. az IL
often the case In America. The
homes, like the farms. sir generally
small. AL they use no beds the bed
room need only be az wide az q per-
son IL long. and az the japanese air
not over ave feet In length, the bed
rooms air not suitable fer six-footers.
such az we often zee In the United
States. The rooms contain mats.
usually made to At the room, or.
rather. the rooms air made TO At the
mats. which air six by three feet.
This mating IL heavy. about two
inches thick. an hit makes q fairly
comfortable bed. Pictures. IL the
house contains any. air painted on
the partition walls. and some ov
them air pretty. But other pictures.
painted on paper. may be kept rolled
up and air shown to company. Awl
Japanese homes hev q room called
the company room," or would be IL
they spoke English. This room liz
generally at one end ov the house.
and liz on a platform, or floor about
a foot higher than the balance ov
the flooring, or mating. and hit IL
generally the best room In the house.
Each home ov the better class con-
tains a small writin' desk with brush
and ink. for the japanese write with
a small brush Instead ov pen or PEN
Gil. the brush bein' dipped into the
ink an then the writin' In done In 3
scrawling manner. However, OWN
to the peculiar shape ov the Japan
ese characters or letters. the brush
In just az good, or better, for maxim
them. The writin' material. brush.
ink, paper, etc, IL kept In beautiful
boxes and decoratin' them furnishes
employment to quite q number ov
people In Japan
While rice and fsh air the bread
and meat ov the masses fn Japan,
they add other things. Sweet pota-
toes, radishes. mushrooms, sea weed,
barley and fruit give some variety
to the diet. The radishes air white
In color and grow large. sometimes
two feet long and two or three inches
In diameter. Chickens air plentiful
throughout Japan. the small varie-
ties bein' the most common. Ducks
air raised, too.
Dwarf trees air common In Japan
Maple, pine and other trees which
air ifty years old and only twelve
inches I'm height may be seen. They
hev plenty ov flowers. but these
dwarf trees. the growth bein' stop
ped by some process. air q favorite
ornament about and In japanese
homes. The homes air heated by
charcoal fires in open urns or bra
ziers. They air better than no heat.
but the average American would
soon freeze here In the winter.
The Japanese air smart, an they
air CROWN more 10 fast. But they
still do some foolish things and some
ov their customs air exactly opposite
to ours. In writin' we start at the
left side ov the paper and go toward
the right until we reach the bottom
ov the sheet The Japanese begin at
the right side ov the sheet and goes
to the left The japanese book be-
gins where ours end and close where
ours begin. The Japanese carpen-
ter pulls the plane toward him. while
our carpenters push the plane from
them. The Japanese mounts his
horse from the right side, while we
foolish Americans and other people
throughout the world mount horse
from the left side. az rule-except
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