The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-13

A ~ odor, suggesting the .pOmade of bAkbAhA IN AEh women's d. RIcksHA. dresses, sake and
 sandalwood. In the roadway every tehicle contributes its bobbing lantern till the traffic seems a celestial satur-
 nalia, staggering with drunken stars. So it looked to Barbara as her two goriki-"strong pull men"-whirled her rubber tired ricksha across the inter-
 minable city in her first bewildering
 view of Tokyo by night. Daunt, for
 her benefit. had arranged trip to the cherry viewing festival on the. Sumida
 river and Japanese dinner at the Ogets', the cherry moon tea house, in
 the famous district of Asaksa, where the great temple of Kwanon the Mer- ciful shines with its ever burning can- dles. They had started from the en- bassy, Baroness Stroloff, the wife of the Bulgarian minister and Patricia's especial favorite; the twin sisters of the Danish secretary. the Swiss min ister's daughter and two young army officers studying the language, all of whom Barbara had met at the review, and the long procession since police regulations in Tokyo forbid rickshas to travel abreast--trailed goose fash ion," threading in and out, a writhing, yellow linked chain.
 Daunt had traced their route with Barbara on map of the city and had translated for her the names of the streets through which they were now
 passing. By the Street of Big Horses they skirted the District of Honorable Tea Water, threaded the Lane Where Good Luck DweIls, and so by Middle Monkey Music street they came to the Sumida, a broader, slothful Thames. gleaming with 10000 lanterns on sam pan, houseboats and barges. The bridge of An My Wife brought them to the farther side. At the entrance of long avenue of blooming cherry trees a policeman halted them. Rickshas-
 were not permitted beyond this point. and the sweating human horses were
 abandoned.
 The road ran high along the river on green embankment like a wide wall between double rows of cherry trees, whose branches interlocked over head. 1t was densely crowded with people, each one of whom seemed to be carrying colored paper lantern or cherry branch dropped over the shoulder. Tn the hues of the loose warm weather kimono bloomed all the flowers of all the springs-golds and mauves and scarlets and magentas-- and everywhere in the lantern light | futtered radiant winged children like vivid little birds in a tropical forest Barbara had never imagined such a welter of movement and color. The | soft futelike voices, the slow shufling of sandals on the dry earth. the pen sive smiling faces, the pink flowers on 1 every hand. made this different from any holiday crowd she had ever seen.
 It suggested carnival of Venice ori- entalized, painted over and set blazing with Japanese necromancy.
 The greatest numbers surged about | large tent. outside of which waddled
 here and there mountains of men, their faces round as full moons, naked save for gayly colored aprons. Tho fat hung on their breasts in great creased folds like an overfed baby's,
 and in the lantern light their flesh
 looked an unhealthy mottled pink.
 Each wore his hair wound in a short | cue. bent forward and tied in 6 stiff loop onsthe crown. As one of the vast
 hulks numbered by. cooling his moon
 face with a tiny fan, Daunt pointed
 him out to Barbara.
 'That is the famous Hitachiyama,D
 he told her, "the champion wrestler of Japan"
 How big he is!'
 Tt runs in families" he said. 'They
 diet and train, too, from babyhood.
 He weighs 347 pounds"
 | A roar came from the lighted canvas,
 and man emerged and wrote some
 thing on a signboard like tally sheet.
 Daunt stopped and perused it. "You
 may be interested. ladies and gentle
 men," he said, 'to learn that MT. Ter
 rible- Horse has knocked out MT. Small Willow-Tree. but that Mir. Tiger-Ele- phant has been allowed foul over Mir. | Frozen-Stork. I wish we could see
 bout, but we must hurry or we'll miss
 the sgeisha dancing"
 They came presently where the road
 way overlooked sunken temple yard
 encircled by meats of oozy slime dot ted with pink and white lotos buds. I The inclosure was set with giant cryp- tomeria centuries old and was crowd
 ed with people. Stone steps led down
 between twisted pine trees and Shin-
 to lanterns to gate on whose either
 side was great stone COW, rampant. | like the figures in coats of arms. There was droll contrast between the os- i ture and the placid bovine counte- nance. In the center of the inclo- l sure rose a wide platform with tas-
 seled curtain like the stage of the ater. Opposite was a pavilion in which l sat rows 0f women in dark colored 1 dress. moyeless as images and hold l ing musical instruments. The whole ! Ho Snarss hot ;or%i1d xxyifl, t6,c,