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unmarried woman to travel alone, giving leo
lures on political and scientific subjects ar"
at one time the baroness-at that time 70
shiko Kishida-was arrested and imprisoned
on the charge of plotting against the govern
ment. While in prison she wrote many poems
in Chinese, giving vent to her feelings regard
ing the condition of her country. Later on
she married a newspaper man. who was a1ter.
ward made baron. He was the first president
OF the house of m and arso a minister
to Italy. the young couple never ceased TO
interest themselves In the political affairs OF
their land and at one time were banished
from the capital city, charged with disloyalty.
Mental ana physical oyerwork brought the
baron to an early death and the wife, broken
hearted. followed him within two years. The
Baroness Nakajima was considered a very
beautiful woman and the many experiences
she underwent as student and reformer gave
depth and strength to her character which
speak plainly in her written works. Her es-
says and lectures are numerous and her last
work, which is a daily record of her life, Is
very instructive and interesting. She wrote
infinitely of passing events and Illustrated
these details with fine drawings or comic
sketches. This work she continued until with
In five days of her death.
Miss Ichiye Higuchi, who died at %, had
already attained fame as a writer of realistic
fiction. Being of humble and poor parentage.
she was obliged to leave school at ten years
of age, a time when most children are merely
beginning to learn to read. With her sister
she helped to support her widowed mother.
but gave all of her spare time to study and
writing. She was forced to live with her fam
lily in the outskirts of the city, among the
poorest and lowest people and it was there
that she got the material for all of her stories.
which are pathetic in the extreme. Notwith-
standing the fact that her opportunities for
learning were limited, her composition is with
out fault, her style chaste and expressive. 1t
was not until after consumption, bred through
poverty and overwork, had taken strong hold
on her system that her genius was recognized.
For q little time then she knew the luxury
Of friends and of admiration. But l have
never known what youth free from responsible
tiles MEANS she told a friend. The Japanese
bow low in reverence to the memory Of Miss
Higuchi, who might well be styled the female
Gorky Of Japanese literature.
Miss Kaho Miyake, Mrs. Kajita and Mrs.
Otsuke are all prominent writer's Of to-day.
Miss Uta Imai is a representative Of the
ultra modern Japanese woman. Miss Imai is
the chief editor Of Nijuseikinofujin. or Twenti-
eth Century Woman and is one Of the found
ers of the Hokkaido Woman's society. She is
working toward that day when the Japanese
women will rise as a unit in their declarations
hopeful, buoyant and answering in her pur-
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Travelling Man Got Even.


A travelling man called on the man.
ager of a large New York concern the
other day and sent his card in by the
boy at the outside gate. The boy
sauntered back lazily and told the
travelling nan that the manager
wouldn't see him.
well, you go and ask him for the
card l sem in," said the caller.
In a few minutes the boy returned
from his second trip. Say" remarked
the boy, "the boss told me to tell you
that he tore up that card, but he sent
a nickel to you to pay for it"
The travelling man was deeply In
suited. but he decided to get back as
best he could. He opened his card
case and drew out another card. hand
ing it to the boy.
''Give this to your boss he said,
and tell him that I'll keep the money.
My cards are two for five. Much
obliged"
The manager rushed out OF the gate
to find the travelling man, but he was
too late. The man had left.
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HOW A DOCTOR CURED SCALP
DISEASE

when / was ten or twelve years
old l had a scalp disease, something
like scald head, though it wasn't that.
l suffered for several months, and
most of my hair came out. Finally
they had a doctor to see me and he
recommended the Cuticura Remedies.
They cured me in a few weeks. l
have used the Cuticura remedies, also,
for a breaking out on my hands and
was benefited a great deal. | haven't
had any more trouble with the scalp
disease. Miss Jessie F. Buchanan,
r. F. D. 3, Hamilton, Ca, Jan. Z, 1909"
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SAoho - . jain IVY
and little Lord Fauntleroy' into the Japanese
language. She also wrote a volume of essays
In English. An extract from one Of these,
Some Phases of the Japanese Home and
Home Life" will give a hint of her style and
of the process of her thought:
Japan, like any other ancient country. has
had a unique national life and history. She
boasts of a civilization, a code of morals, a
form of government and a system of education
all peculiar to herself, and she cherishes
these as heirlooms expressive Of the wisdom
and experience handed down through the whole
line Of her ancestors. You all know that
the old-time Japanese woman was trained &C
cording to rules Of conduct that were most
severe in their rigidity. She was assiduously
taught to guard her personal virtue and the
proud honor of her household. Death was the
only alternative in case she swerved from her
duties. Place, on the one hand, this
type of womanhood, serving in the house OF
her lord and master with singleness of pur-
pose and with devotion strong in its simple
ity and, on the other, an average girl of mod
ern education. with a smattering of western
knowledge, it is true, but without discretion
and Judgment to apply her newly found infor-
maticn, and, Of course, the latter will appear
at a disadvantage. In the present
home, where the old and the new elements
combine, contrary streams Of thought and ac-
ton thwart the young wife at her every step,
and, in spite of her resolution, many are the
tears that she sheds unseen. But she
must learn to be just as cautious and deferen-
tial in one respect as it is her duty to be
prompt and decisive in another. For herein
lies the very test of her intrinsic worth and
usefulness. We deplore the many evils
that have issued and still do issue from the
ancient household system in Japan. $.
Yet we cannot help noting that this has been
perhaps the most successful system Of disci-
pline ever extant-a discipline productive of
the utmost diligence, circumspectness and self
sacrifice. We certainly owe it to this system
that indolent, whimsical and selfish women
have been set aside and the noble, self-sacrifc-
ing type of wives and mothers was pre-
served for the old-time Japanese homes and
handed down as an heirloom to the present
day"
Another woman of marked ability as a
writer was the Baroness Nakajima. As q
child she excelled in her studies and was al
lowed to go to a boys school, there being no
high schools for girls at that time. Her fame
as a scholar became known at court and she
was appointed as a teacher Of learning to the
empress. After retiring from this service she
toured the country for special study and OBJ
servation. 1t was an unusual thing for an
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.yAPAN'S ANCESTRAL GODS

oro NJ the most marvellous manifestations
~ natr,otic and religious enthusiasm in mod
ern Japan was occasioned recently by the
transference of the imperial shrines at Use 10
their new tabernacle just completed, the Lon
don standard says. This remarkable Shinto
festival NAV be witnessed only every 81 years.
when the temples of the ancestral gods are
reconstructed and the 7acred objects are re-
moved to their New all Thu Ise temples
have been thus renewed every score OF years
since A. D.. $50 at least and for how long De-
fore that no one knows, the present occasion
being the ffty-seventh rebuilding on record.
Such a periodic reconstruction will appear
quite necessary when it is recollected that on
these .shrines no mortal hand is ever permit
ted to execute repairs. After they are QUILT
the gods of the nation take possession OF them
and thenceforward they are not touched I'LL
they go the way of all things.
The work of rebuilding the sacred shrines
begins almost as soon as the last reconstruc'
ton is complete by the appointment OF an I'M
perial commission intrusted with the impor-
tant enterprise. Every stage is marked by
religious ceremonies. from the telling of the
trees to the driving of the last nail. The COM
pletion is emphasized by a special festival OF
publication, after which the temples pass from
the hands of the commissioners to the priestly
custodians of the imperial shrines.
Finally comes the great festival of remov-
ing the ancestral gods and the sacred treas
ures and relics to the new "holy OF holiss."
which took place recently. 1t is computed that
no fewer than 10000 persons were present on
the night of the actual removal. Though the
august spectacle takes place at night, the
preparation for it appears to go on for two or
three days previously, but the ceremonies of
the notable day itself are the most interesting.
The day opened with the appearance before
the new temples of a specially chosen virgin.
who went through a peculiar ceremony Of
burying in the ground before the shrine a jar
containing offerings to the god of earth.
Later in the day began a long procession
of priests in gorgeous robes of green and gold,
chanting weird litanies and monotoning sutras
to the strains of archaic instruments. It Is
affirmed that the service has in no respect
been changed during the last thousand years.
With the settling down of darkness came the
great function of removal. A detachment of
priests, led by a priestly representative OF the
imperial house, went into the soon to be aban-
doned shrines to examine the treasures md to
measure the sacred fabrics. As the lattef are
reputed to be more than 5000 0 feet in leach.
this was no small matter.
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instead Of giving the youth the priv
ilege of the common law of swapping
his fingers at the judge and saying:
Prove it 4 you can; I will keep quiet"
In much the same way the military
and the naval service have evolved in
the course Of years. on both sides Of
the water. a method Of disposing Of
their own troubles. It suits them. al
though widely at variance with that
which has been found wise In regular
court proceedings. It applies to things
which are quite as often as otherwise
not offenses against the law Of the
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Kent with earnum's Circus

P. T. Barnum, the famous circus
man, once wrote: 81 have had the
Cuticura Remedies among the con.
tents of my medicine chest with my
shows for the last three seasons, and !
can cheerfully certify that they were
very effective in every case which
called for their use"
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Judgment TO CONFORM W IL ue-
mands of custom. Probably her will was in
domitable, her intellect clear and strong. In
such case she reached more nearly to the
ideal. because she could control herself. She
believed in the customs Of her land; she
loved them. She was guided by them So it
was a mistake to regard her soft voice, her
welllearned timidity, as indicative of weak
ness, of fexibility.
Even in the long, musty past a woman
came out now and then and gave to her people
a sample of the possibilities of the feminine
mind in fields other than the intimate home
life. But such disclosures were naturally rare.
One of these was Murasakishikibu, a wo-
man who lived about 1900 years ago ana
wrote electromagnetic" a realistic story OF
Genii. a prominent member of the nobility OF
that time. This novel has long been a classic
in japan and is studied in the modern schools.
Parts of it have been translated into English.
Seishonagon, a famous poet and sketch
writer, lived about the same time. She was
a strong moralist and was noted TOT ner hlsh
and excellent character.
Shiran Yanagawa, the Mrs. Browning OF
.Japan. lived during the reign of Shotgun Toku-
eawa. about 100 years ago, and, together with
her husband, wrote many Chinese poems. AT
that time. as to-day, Chinese was the medium
employed by the Japanese classic writer LOT
the expression of his thoughts.
When the breath of western civilization
blew across the picturesque little island OF
Japan it melted the chains of conservatism
and preiudice for women as well as for men.
And so we have to-day the peculiar spectacle
of the new springing with almost startling zeal
ont of the very bosom of the old. Mothers
who cling with fervent faith to the old school
Of training have daughters who go out and
work as newspaper reporters!
There are those whose emancipation is SO
radical that it even jars upon the sensibilities
of one so callous as a westerner. There are
other women whose growth, though marked. Is
Dl.asing and graceful. To this class belongs
Kashi Iwamoto. Mrs. Iwamoto was OF that
generation that helped to make japan what
sbe is to-day and she was herself a part of the
new order. Born at the end Of the old regime,
and growing up amidst the fercest struggle
IF transition, she imbibed that which was best
of the old and at the same time caught the
trle spirit of the new. Her husband, Zenjl
Jwamoto, is a wellknown literary man and
founder of Meiji Jogakko, a prominent college
for girls. In working with him Mrs. Iwamoto's
views of life were broadened and she inter-
ested herself in all things pertaining to the
welfare of her people. She not only learned
English. but mastered it to a degree in which
her STYLE is not only correct, but has a dis
tinct literary quality and a charm, partly due,
perhaps, to a hint of foreign 1diom, which
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Entitled to It.

"How are things lokin' over to Din
gledell?"
They've been lookin' purity squeam-
ish for a spell. Tn creek got so blame
high it overfowed Peasley's dam, an
there's two foot O. water in Wilder
Browns cellar"
We'll, well, | s'pose you folks over
there will be SO stuck up pretty soon
thet you'll be calm yourselves tn
Parisians of Ameriky."
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land; Its ~punishments relate to the
service itself; the accused is bound by
its conclusions, when properly ap-
proved, because he is amenable to the
rules of the service. Aside from the
usually public character Of q court
martial, it is essentially q family meth
Cd Of settling a family dispute, by
administering punishment binding by
reason Of ones family membership.
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Life.

Ii is a good and safe rule to sojourn
in every place as If you meant to
spend your life there, never emitting
an opportunity of doing a kindness or
speaking a true word or making a
friend.-John Ruskin.
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Truth Above All.

Welcome the beggarliest truth, SO
it be one. in exchange for the royalest
sham. Truth of any kind breeds ever
new ard bitter truth.-Thomas Car
lyle.
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The man VINO worsnips a woman
will never develop into a free thinker.
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~lnsufficientlx Clad,

Chappie-I was sitting by my bed
wrapped in my thoughts
Dollie-Goodness! Didn't you take
an awful cold?-Cleveland Leader.
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Excellent Connection

"Is his family we'll connected?"
Extremely so. They have an ex
elusive private phone"
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One Of the many things that are
not all they r cracked Up to be u
q broken promise.
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eat generation Of workers she be-
lieyes she will see great changes IN
methods and principles before her
sun is set.
The daughter of Kashi Iwamoto
promises to be a prominent ngure IN
the future literary world OF japan.
She has been writing stories ana
translating from foreign tongues Tor
several years.
The first woman to enter the regu-
lar newspaper field was Mrs. Takeyo
Takegoshi, who, with her husDano
Joined the staff Of the Kokumin-Shin-
bum. in Tokyo, some Is years ago.
After four or five years other women
became interested In newspaper work
and to-day many are employed as spe-
cial writer's, as reporters and as edl-
tors of departments for women.
These are but a few of he women
writers of Japan. They are sufflclent
to illustrate, however, the fact that
the Japanese woman Is a creature OF
considerable reserve mental force n
Of intense feeling. Under the new re-
gime only was it possible for her 70
make these facts known to the out
side world. since the old teaching m
strained her to keep hidden every
feeling. every thought, that she might
develop a more ~Spartan-like charac-
ter. capable of enduring great sacri-
fee when sacrifice should come-as
II did In the lives Of many Japanese
women. It was not an accident that
the Japanese soldiers repulsed the
larger men of the Russian army.
They were the sons of mothers whose
discipline through thousands of years
had well nigh reached perfection,
h endurance was great n
whose wits were sharpened by con-
slant contact with domineering hus-
hands and fractions mothers-in-law.
1t is an unhappy fact that the jap
anese literature loses its artistic
beauty and it's real strength when
translated into foreign languages.
This is probably due to the fact that
he Japanese student is still strug-
Cling in the mazes of the foreign
tongues and is not as yet capable Oh
manipulating the new words so as to
exnress the fine shades OF meaning
that he sees and appreciates in his
own literature. The delicacy with
n artist attacks his subject in the Jap
- -~r~ ND
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PERRY DAVIS PAINKILLER
has an enyIapsu :Sputation of over seventy yealsasa
reliable remedy for lumbagO, ~sciatica, pleurisy
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Scandal is The tattle Of fools wnc
Judge other people by themselves.
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which an artist attacks MS SUBJECT ~ L 'op
80 10 likely to become clumsy or inane and
Maan;rg,ess when he attempts to employ other
,aneuages as a medium of expression. This
nerhaps. is the reason that westerners say
that Japan "is a country without literature.
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Ear Colds and cr,pp-capudine.

The best remedy for Gripp and Colds Is
Hicks Capudine. Relieves the aching and
also. It's L~iquid-Efects immediately--10.
Is and SOC at Drug Stores.
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by whatever reports might come
from the lips of men. While these
portrayals were true in a way, they
were misleading, because they did
not express the whole truth. Was
the Japanese woman shrinking and
timid? Yes, because she was taught
so from time immemorial. 1t was
an art with her, a supreme accom-
plishment. AS an indication of her
real nature it meant nothing-save
that she had the power and the good
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nary reaQlnS, anu
would one believe her capable OF
evolving ideas and expressing
them intelligently.
But she does both.
The Japanese woman or the ola
era was. like her entire nation, a
shut-iu. She was the pre-emlnent-
ly exclusive member OF an exelu-
sive people. Her powers, hef
whole life, were wholly at the DIS
oosal of her family first, and after
ward of her husband-or. more
correctly speaking, her lord n
master. In a book of the old Sa-
mural is written the law for wo-
men: Firstly, a woman has no
lord to serve but her husband. She
must obey and honor him as her
lord and master. Be cautious.
Never despise nor slight his words.
A woman's first duty is obedience.
She should be careful about the
expression of her face and never
show anger or excitement in her
looks"
Subject to such restrictions, it
was impossible for the stranger
in the past, to learn of the real
possibilities of the Japanese Wo
man. He could be guided only by
the artists conception OF her ano
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her tiny pigeon
toes and her butter
fly gown. her paint,
her oiled hair and
her soft, timid voice.
the Japanese Wo-
man hardly sug-
gests the possloil-
ity of memorizing
thousands OF Chi
nese characters
that are necessary
in the most ordi-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-06
WANTS SOME HELP.

Dear Mr.. Watson:-Will you kind
ly send me the name and address of
one boy or girl from Texas, New
Mexico, Georgia, Iowa and Nebraska
I want to write to each one separate
ly, asking them to send me, as soon
as possible, description >of the eli
mate of the State in which they re-
side. Our science teacher has asked
us to write to our friends asking for
descriptions of the climate of certain
places. In geography, we have been
studying climate and comparison of
climate of different places. I will
thank the persons sending me infor-
nation, and I would be willing to
lend help to them or any other mem
Der of Daddy Jim's club [ intend to
join Daddy Jim's Club soon, and
would like to know if we should
write on postal cards. Papa takes
both papers, and [ am very interest
ed in them. Please send me the ad-
dresses and names as soon as posssi-
ble.-Yours truly, Rosa B. Greiner,
1348 Toronto St., Philadelphia, Pa.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1910-01-06
ALL ABOUT SUGAR CANE.

Dear Daddy jim: Here I come,
trying for another prize. I live in the
country among the pigs and chickens.
We have pet pig, and she is as cute
as can be. Her name is Bighead. We
have been grinding cane. Perhaps
some of the readers of the Postcard
Club would like for me to tell about
it. We plant it in the spring and
about November it is cut down and
carried to the mill, where it is ground
into juice. 1t is then put into a
boiler and cooked into syrup and put
into bottles or barrels. I am going
to school to Miss Lena Kingsley, and
like to go very much. / am thirteen
years old, have golden hair, hazel
eyes and fair complexion.-You little
friend, Blanche Young.
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DUCK HUNTING IN TEXAS.

Dear Daddy Jim:-It is very cold
down here this morning. l expect it
is showing where you live. We have
not had any frost down here yet, but
it looks like it is going to snow now.
We are going to can some tomatoes
today Papa is building a chimney,
and he says it is very cold up on the
ladder. Papa went to Lake Tiocano,
one and half miles from our house;
we children went with him, and we
saw hundreds of ducks. I wish you
could come down to see us. My papa
would take you out to kill some
ducks. Papa is out on the lake now,
hunting ducks; it is a fine time to
hunt them. Well, Daddy Jim, will
close.-Good-bye your little friend,
Lizzie Adams, Harlingen, Texas.
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WHAT SANTA CLAUS BROUGHT.

Dear Daddy Jim:-Here 1 come
again. | guess my first letter found
the waste-basket, as I didn't see it
in print; though it might have been
in the paper that we didn't get, as
we missed one. | received your card:
many thanks for it, | appreciate it
very much. | am enjoying vacation
very we'll. We will start to school
Monday. We have thirty-three pu-
pills in our room. We have in the
whole school about nine hundred.
Well, Christmas has come and gone.
Santa Claus brought me a pretty
locket and some other nice things.
Goodbye; best wishes to your little
readers, and much love to Daddy
Jim.-Your little friend, Verna
Crane, Americas, Ga.
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FROM A TEXAS BOY.

Dear Daddy Jim:-I am little
boy, fourteen years of age. My papa
takes The Jeffersonian. I like to
read the childrens page. I saw some
riddles in the last paper, SO I will
give some riddles: CD It runs all
day and never gets tired, and stands
under the bed at night with it's
tongue out. CD AS l went over
heeple steeple I met a heap of peo-
pie, micker hacker; some the color
of brown tobacco. Now the first one
that tells me what I mean by the two
riddles, will send them a pretty
postcard. I live in the country. I
have two sisters, and two brothers.
There are five of us children in the
family. | go to school. My teacher
is Mr.. Ross Covey. This is my first
attempt. l saw the riddles that little
Miss Annie May McNeill made. A
head, but no hair, is pin, or nail.
An eye, but no face, is needle
Bascom House, Glen Rose, Texas.