The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-19
New Woman Comes To The Fore In
 Land Of Nippon

as it has in the Occfdent and has
 aroused almost as much attention as
 the woman rights problems in for eign lands.
 The Japanese woman, compared to her sisters abroad, has occupied a
 modest place in the life of the Elm
 pire and has been held greatly in sub lection. But advanced opinion agrees that the Japanese woman is entitled
 to greater freedom and wider intel 1ectual activities than hitherto has
 been allowed her.
 A cry for "emancipation of won en'' from domestic slavery is being rais-
 ed by number of educated girls, who
 call themselves t'Blue Stockings .
 These new women do not clearly
 but in a general way they defy the old
 order of things laid down for the fe-
 male sex. They have their own pub
 1ications and occasionally arrange
 public meetings for the propaganda of their ideas. They have a. club of their owns and gather for nightly
 woman's rights discussions.
 However, these are the extremists.
 Their utteranees and their mode of life have shocked conservative Japan. In fact, some of them have been so
 radical dn1 their action that the au-
 thoT1ties have invoked the law to re- strain them. Recently a number Of magazines for women were suspended on the ground that they were in- furious to society,".
 Dr. Okuda, Minister of Education, is of the opinion that the discussion of
 the wonan's rgF1ts question may not be dangerous to the minds of women who are well educated and have been we'll trained in mind, but he added his view that 'it will excite inJuriously the minds of ordinary. women, or in other words, will encourage vanity T14 -+aud of in out of ten women who discuss such a problem are the victims of the
 &'crue1 influence of vanity
 After the observance of the first an
 niversery of the death of Emperor | Mutsuhito at the end of July, the court will begin active preparation for the coronation of the new Emperor, who is now quite we'll again after his recent attack of pneumonia. The coronation will take place in the fall
 of 1914 and will be attended by great spiendor and magnifcence. An Inn peria1 Coronation Commissioner will soon be appointed. It is likely that
 this office will be bestowed upon H.
 H. General Prince F'ushinni-
 The date for coronation will be fix ed and published with the signature of:the Minister of the Imperial House. hold and the Ministers of State. At ] the same time the Emperor will am nounce the date at the Imperial Sane tuary and will send messengers to the Great Shrine at Ises to the masoleun of the Emperor Jinnnu. and the mau- soleum of Emperors Mutzuhito and Komei, to proclaim the forthcoming coronation.
 One of the early preparations for
 the coronation will be the planting
 next spring of sacred rice to be used during the ceremonies. Already the l rearrangement and repairs of temples oJI sa% I1e coronation will take place. have been comm enced for the suitable reception
 of the foreign envoys and special mis- sfons.
 Although the emigration. of Japa- nese to the United States has been practically stopped by what is known as the 'tgentIemen's agreement" the
 exodus of e1nigrants to South Aneri-
 ca is increasing. One of the principal causes of this plan is the establish Inent of the Brazilian Colonization
 Company by Baron Shibusawa and
 other prominent Japanese for the
 leasing of lands in Brazil. An ar
 rangement with the Brazilian Govern
 ment provides for the settlement of
 2,000 Japanese families in Brazil for the next four years, and @. start has been made in sending these people rice cultivation will be the chief occu- patton.
 The majority of the Japanese emi- grants are in Hawaii and the United States, with South America and Can ada next. There are 500 Japanese working in the rubber plantations in Malay Peninsula. Already there are 5000 Japanese laborers in Brazil en- gagged in the cultivation of coffee. about 1000 in Peru in the cultivation of potatoes, 1000 in Mexico in mining and 2,o0O in Australia. Official f1g- 4Io@ 1P T, 4,. the Philippine Island at 5000, chiefly engaged in the production of flax and potatoes. while there are 800 em- pIoyed in phosphorus mining in the Island of Guam, which belongs to the United States.
 Japan will contribute to the Peace Palace at The Hague nine beautiful pictures Of flowers and birds, elabor- ately worked upon silk tapestry. In these pictures are depicted, in artistic variety and arrangement, such bloom ing trees as the cherry, purple mag and flowers such as the lily, peony, marigo1d and dandeIion, together with peacocks, pheasants, pigeons, sparrows and swallows. Of the nine pictures the two principal measure 5 by 16 feet and represent a majestic peacock strutting under beautiful cherry blossoms. These tapestries were designed by zHobun Kikuchi, a famous Japanese artist, and their manufacture was started in Novem- Der, 1909, and has only just been f1n- ished.
 Japanese inventors have made a successful wireless telephone appara- tus. Instruments were installed on board a ship and at two points in the city of Yokohama After a series of experiments it was found that con versa tion was clearly audible at a, dis tance of 20 knots out to sea, and short messa ges were exchanged even at a distance of 60 knots. After few more experiments the Department of Communications will open the new system for the use of the general pub