The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1910-07-15

-''+-h, "a pa Il--NJJtiLd Is Il village
of hotels about FIVE hours from Ma
gasakl. Its chaiybeate waters are the
knockout drops for rheumatism. The
| natural temperature Of the springs is
90 deg. Fahrenheit, and still going. In
the baths at the hotels it is tempered
to degree just short of floating off
your corns, bunions and ingrowing
nails, the rest of the nail going with
the accretions. Not a great way from
the hotels are a number of solfataras
and fumaroles that boil and bubble and
smoke in rather infantile imitation Of
Yellowstone Park
There is one of these springs. with
tropical temperature of 2G4 deg. that
hot springs as Chute Jiguko. which is
to say, Second-class He'll What
comfort it must be to some of our
- best people, to know that if they
should die in Japan, and 90 where their
eminently respectable meanncss and
littlenesses ought to condemn them.
they may at least 90 frst-class and
have red-hot seats at the captain ;
table, while the hoi polloi wallow
around in Chuto Jiguko. Or some such
name, only shorter,
But that end of man 5 life ism t
by any means the most important. |
have an idea that a man who tries to
get to heaven merely because he
doesn't want to 90 to hell may be a
good enough sort of neighbor in the
next world-atlhough a few years Of
purgatorial fumigation might improve
him; but he ism t much of a comrade
nor a very helpful yokefellow in this
one-the one in which we live and
toll, sweat and suffer. fight and trl-
umph. We can get along with any one
whom the dear Lord accounts to be
worthy of place in heaven-in fact,
if they let me IN, I dom see how
they are going to keep any one else
out And if | don get in / II be II
little the most astonished and the
| worst-disappointed man that ever made
the mistake of dying.
But just now we need good men and
women, brave, strong. generous, sym
pathetic. affectionate, helpful, unset
fish people with whom to live and work
So that, being well tried out : in this
land Of probation, they may be able
to endure ~ in heaven, if we don t
live too near to them Wherefore /
think it is much better thing to see
the world over the right shoulder than
it is to see the new moon at the for
tunate angle of vision. For we do
we in the world, and we never will
Hive in the moon.
/ OF all the people on earth, then, the
! japanese should have the best start,
according to this theory. For the
/ japanese baby sees the world from one
Of the best and most exalted points Of
/ view-oyer his mother 5 shoulder.
/ And the rest of the time over his
sister : shoulder. Or over his brother :,
! Anyhow, I have never seen Japa-
nese baby alone. have almost al
ways seen him pcrched upon some one :
back. And in some very Young in
stances I have followed him around
a~ he drove slowly from little place to
litter place. to see ii the baby horse
and infant rider wouIdn t change places
once in a while. following our own Old
i.-ride and tie methods Of transpor-
tation i'm the former days in Illinois
when miles were more numerous than
horses.
The baby piliion IS q very simple
contrivance. \ square bit Of cloth
about foot Square-a long band OF
the stuff extending from each corner:
the baby IS squattea in the square
with his fat little legs-all japanese
babies are fat-hanging ont ri the
lower corners: the long ends are
brought around the mother : waist a'r
over her shoulders tucked in as salon
ties a knot without knotting it. an
there the '.littIest' is. safe aud happy
for all day. save at such intervals
when dinner is announced at the foun
tain of life. And the mother : aria:
are free for her work. II the InIIt
fellow says triAe, bunch Of Ia.
shoulders brings him up to m eaSlt'
ipoSition. And the mother goes on coal
inc the steamer. handling freight
transplanting rice, helping the bnH h2o
the cart or truck OF freight; dong al
her own work and half Of the man 5
.sNoteS for women 80 Not in Japan
dear antisuffrage sister. The argnmen
that "going to the polls would take