The Wagner leader. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1912-1912, 1912-03-08
Toxic Today
BY DR.. w. q.

Toxic. with its more thar 100000 in
habitants, has greatly improved In
we first saw it. in 1856. Here is a great
university and many colleges with tens Of
thousands Of students. The streets have
been widened in many parts and better
and more imposing buildings have taken
the place of e~phemeral structures we first
saw here. Electric cars rave taken the
place Of clumsy old hacks and stages.
And yet with all the rowde electric lines
of cars, it is already getting to be a great
problem as to how the people, morning
and evening, can get across the magnih-
cent distance between their homes and
places Of business. Underground roads are
getting to be absolute necessities.
Another great change for better is in
the physical as we'll as mental improve
ment in the students. We have addressed
large bodies of young men and young
women in the mele and female college OF
Methodism, and in both classes the av-
erage height is an inch greater thar a
score of years ago. The splendid training
In the kindergarten, calisthenic and ath-
letic fields, together with improvement n
food. are doing great things for both mind
and body. We are quite sure that in many
parts Of America we are very much be-
hind in kindergarten and calisthenic drill,
and especially in the scientific and proper
use Of the athletic field and gymnasium.
Some of the girls schools here are drilled
by the finest military experts, and the
correctness Of their bodies and grace of
movement are admirable. Let us have a
more rational physical development or
both boys and girls, in the occident as
we'll as the orient. Less of card playing
and the ball room and more Of the gym
nasium and outdoor sports.
On a street thronged with tens OF thou
sands of people for many miles. We saw
the emperor go by, in absolute silence. so
far as the mult.tudes was concerned.
Among Anglo-Saxons, or in America such
silence could hardly be possible. The en-
peror Is rather solemn himself In appear
ance. Few empires or governments In
the history of the world have ever mace
anything like such rapid strides in prog
ress during the reign of a single soVer-
eign. A very hopeful and significant sign
is that In the new palace OF the crown
prince, there is no provision or rooms for
concubines. This crown prince is said to
bo a fine character. with only one, wire,
who is the mother Of q happy family or
children. During his coming reign as en-
peror we think it very probable tnat the
state religion of Japan will be declared 10
be Christian.
When YOU visit Japan you may expect
to be often asked: Have you seen tuJi
Yama?" or Have you been to Nikko!
The Japanes artists have made these two
objects familiar to the eyes or all lovers
of the beautiful In all civilized lands. TO
see Full Yama FROM the deck or a snip
out on the Pacific In the golden light OF
the rising or setting sun, Is to see the Gil
max of natural and majestic beauty, anu
make you wonder how any human being
can gaze Upon such a sight and stil De
an Atheist. It is a truncated cone OF
snow, rising in perfect symmetry from the
level Of the sea, and In such a ilgnt seems
like an enormous golden tinted chrysan-
themum.
1t is only 1885 feet high, much lower
than Pixies Peak, but the latter rests on
a base 5000 feet above the level OF the
sea, while Full stands in perfect symmet-
nv on the level of the sea-, wrappe In her
matchless robe of snow.
tYou can't say .Keklo until you nave
seen Nikko,' is a japanese proVerp.
Kekko is their word for beauty Inc
tombs of Napoleon in Paris, and OF Shah
Jsnhan's empress at Agra, on the jun
ma, may be more elaborate and costly, but
the BODY of no king, queen, emperor or
emnress ever rested amid a more impos-
ing natural environment than the bodies
of japanese rulers sleeping amid the snad-
ews of the great cryptomeria trees at MIX
ko.
japan deserves much credit for the gen.
eral conservatism of her forestry with
such artistic skill. hundred OF miles or
travel amid forests and farms impresses
you as landscape gardening on an I'M
mense scale. Her mountain s.des are often
SO terraced with rice. tea, vegetables,
fruit and flowers as to seem like a fairy
land. in striking contrast to the denuded
mountain sides of Manchurfa and Korea.
Yokohama, Japan.